September 28, 2021 Regular School Board Meeting

001can somebody do gifts rose or frank can you do gifts or todd or kitty sure sure so i printed it at home so it kind of went weird here but it's catch the girls cross country okay oh you got it there okay all right here it is in case you need it okay we do not have any retirements did you see drew was leaving under mike yeah i always feel good i just got this message from dr bustman in the hallway okay i'm sorry okay wayne we're ready good evening everybody the september 28 2021 regular school board meeting of roseville area schools isd 63 is here by call to order clerk johnson could you please take the role uh my pleasure um director anderson here treasurer goggins here jared brogaski here director shaw here director

002chu yeah clerk johnson's here thank you do we have any agenda adjustments thank you do you have any announcements or comments from our colleagues we seem to have none uh it is community input time and we do have microphones where they again can somebody there'll be somebody helping got it all right so uh as you may have heard we did institute a new process to sign in electronically to help with our processing and to make sure we capture legible addresses and things so uh first up first on the list is alan holasek so mr vlasic please how long do i have uh three minutes so we're doing three minutes and timing will be by our communications can you hear me clearly here okay all right well hello so okay well as you know i have

003spoken to the school board the last few meetings and one of the biggest worries that i have brought to the school board's attention was um concerns about the brimhall principle and his aggressive he seemingly aggressive desire to push transgender ideology onto our children now as you can see as you've probably told can tell from last couple means i'm not alone in my concerns so tonight i just wanted to read for you all part of a letter that was written by a woman named saneed watson sidney watson is a woman who chose to transition to a man but then later chose to detransition so this is what she said we are but a few of many that have been victims of this type of cavalier attitude we have all suffered from gender dysphoria at one point

004and some still do and we're led to believe that our best chance of treating our dysphoria was to medically transition as it turns out this was not the case as a result we now have to live with bodies and voices that have been irreversibly changed in some cases damaged by hormones and surgeries when what we needed was a compassionate and thoughtful exploration of our gender distress through talk therapy some of us will now never be able to have children and many of us live with great distress and regret every day not only did physicians fail us by sending us down a singular path of transition they are now letting us down once again by disparaging our experiences and even our existence when they should be providing us with support to help us heal from our

005unnecessary medical transitions as we see more and more distressed young people following in our footsteps of a rushed medical gender transition in a few years we fear the consequences of this activism will be catastrophic and visible to all now i basically want to say to all of you as a board the actions that you are taking as a board with our children concerns of gender ideology have huge ramifications down the line and this is not a game and you know the thing is is that don't ignore this because i'm telling you right now the consequences that will be coming as a result of this behavior are basically irreparable and we are dealing with children and on furthermore just on one other note real quick there um i got an email saying that's critical race theory

006is not being taught in the school now not to get too elaborate on this but i was told we were told at the state of the district address the other week that the equity program was going to be heavily influenced by a man named dr mohammed khalifa and i did some background on this man and there's some very problematic um stuff in his history for instance he wrote a paper about quote unquote christian privilege and also he has been a very big proponent of critical race theory and so the board has stated that critical race theory is not being used in our schools there but i find that very hard to believe if dr muhammad khalifa is the primary influence of our equity program because critical race theory is not simply a subject is a

007process and a lens by which you interpret all other uh subjects so it looks like i'm out of time so thank you very much for your time thank you mr larsen also [Applause] just one other thing i should have mentioned too we also changed our process we are no longer asking speakers to state their home address when they come to the microphone uh just out of concern for safety and to make sure that what's broadcast out to the public remains confidential so it's still part of our sign-in sheets we get hold of everybody but we are no longer asking folks to state their home address when they speak so thank you next up is once again mr carl crump mr crump good evening thank you for hearing me so i've got a couple of things

008i did get a response from my questions that i had last time however it doesn't really seem like a response the questions that i asked last time were what safety precautions were taken for sars and mers i also asked i'm wondering how many funerals for roseville students the school board has attended or how many flowers have been sent how many cards have been sent i mean that's a number answer the response i got was thank you for speaking regarding your comments and questions regarding our vaccination under testing requirement i can only emphasize that we on the board have as our driving motivation only the best interests of our students families staff and community at worst if we are found to have erred on the side of caution in some of our code coveted mitigation strategies

009that is the site i want to have aired on our duty is to provide a safe and healthy environment in our schools it doesn't talk at all about the number of funerals flowers or cards it wasn't one number in that so i'll ask the question again same same question if i could get a response on that the number of funerals also safety precautions that were taken during stars and mers and also have one more thing which is that flu deaths for kids and this goes back to 2018 that's the best i could find on cd website kova deaths for kids 188 so my question is what are the safety precautions that you're going to be taking once we get out of this coveted stuff what safety precautions like now we've got to wear masks and

010we've got a social distance all that kind of stuff what are your plans going forward when we have to address the flu because for kids the flu is much more deadly than cove it is so what are your plans and that is all i have oh one more thing you talk about all this equity in education i have a kid in in the middle school here and everything absolutely everything has some kind of a racial overtones to it mike my my kid is not white and she hates it i wish you'd change something thank you very much thank you mr trump next we have kathleen bart kathleen hi yeah i spoke about six weeks ago and never heard a response and i would i'm still waiting for that response but two weeks ago i listened

011to people speak on both sides of the aisle on the topic of equity and education one side insisted that races are not being discriminated against by this this teaching the other side insisted that discrimination is already happening by this form of education i'd like to argue that the way to address both concerns would be to take the middle ground and teach truth and education each race has both good and bad people in our history why not teach both the good and the bad for each race blacks were obviously oppressed by slavery but are the students being taught that there were black slave owners case in point a black man named anthony johnson of virginia a wealthy landowner sued to have one of his indentured servants be declared a slave for life he won this lawsuit

012and virginia adopted the practice of slavery seven years later in 1661 and his slave john kaser became the first person declared a slave in america so in essence it was a black man that started enslaving his own race right here in america a common practice at that time was for african tribes to capture and transport kidnapped people from other tribes to sell them as slaves to brazil and the caribbean islands johnson's lawsuit helped pave the way for kidnapped africans to be sold in the colonies not all of our founding fathers were slave owners and many like benjamin franklin and john adams our second president detested slavery they tolerated slavery in the southern colonies to have a united front to free the colonies from the group of great britain john adams son and our fifth president

013john quincy adams before he became president was chosen by the abolitionists to defend kidnapped africans in the famous amistad case and i quote and this is from the smithsonian magazine in 1839 a spanish slave ship named la amistad appeared off the coast of new york the captains aboard it who were free africans kidnapped in africa and originally bound for sale in cuba had rebelled killing the spanish ship's captain and cook the african mutineers then promised to spare the lives of the ship's crew and their captors if they took them back to africa the crew agreed but then duped the slaves by sailing up the coast to new york where they were taken into custody by the u.s navy end quote john quincy adams successfully argued for their freedom the u.s president van buren at the

014time would not pay for their safe return the abolitionists paid for their return trip upon arriving at their native land their governor thanked john quincy adams by sending him a huge beautiful bible which is on display in the john adams library to this day have your students read the original journals of christopher columbus not someone's interpretation of his voyages they'll understand there that the native tribes were some were peaceful some were warring um and if i could just finish if you wouldn't mind it like good stuff i did some research here i know i love history um okay so the so what he found christopher columbus found was they would kidnap people from other tribes and slave them and some would even cannibalize them this was true further inland as the early americans discovered as

015they pushed further west native americans were not always sitting around smoking peace pipes in order to be truly teaching equity and education and avoid pinning one race against another give the students the whole truth the good the bad and the ugly each race has good people and can be proud of that each race has bad people and should own up to it the past should not define anyone no matter the race in each person no matter the race can bring good to our country's history right now thank you [Applause] thank you miss bart next up we have leon neve or neve i'm not sure how you pronounce it sir it's pronounced navy and let me introduce myself thank you i am a resident of saint paul but three of our four students attended roseville area

016high school a number of years ago they had an excellent experience in roseville they participated in sports the arts music academics that's propelled them for a very successful college career and they are very successful adults and i am grateful to the the effort that the roosevelt area school gave them i have for the last five years i have tutored at central park elementary and i have found this to be a very enriching experience the kids are very involved they're engaged i find the staff to be incredibly dedicated the principal to be incredibly dedicated they're doing everything right i'm i'm very much interested in uh the demographics of central park elementary school because it's very much like the demographics of the saint paul elementary school i have spent 35 plus years as we as a counselor

017in saint paul public schools so i know a little bit about the demographics of a very diversified school the one thing that i find missing though at central park is an elementary counselor and when i inquired about this i was told well roosevelt doesn't have elementary counselors well i understand that but look at the demographics it's very much like a st paul public school saint paul public schools has elementary counselors the needs are there the needs are there more so than ever now with covid kids need support this is too much to ask a teacher to be giving this kind of support and i know the school has psychologists and social workers that's not the same as a counselor a counselor should be for all students and all the students have a need and i

018see this very very evidently i see this when i when i go there to tutor that these are the kids these are kids that in some respects are too much for a teacher to manage so i appreciate central park they're doing a great job it's a great school and i enjoy my tutoring experience very much thank you thank you sir [Applause] next up we have again tonight mr bruce owner okay we'll just point it upward a little okay um yes i want to talk about some of the destructiveness that's going on in our public schools in minnesota from the lgbtq and so jefferson fietek was an advocate for lgbt students at the anoka middle school of the arts and he was considered a hero of you know for what he did i mean he he

019won a national award from the lgbt youth advocate educator of the year um yes award-winning documentary um i think at the white house invited him to for an award also and uh so during his term there at anoka nine students committed suicide they're dead seven students were hospitalized from attempting to commit suicide these are all lgbtq students and of course as you would expect this jefferson fiatek he was winning awards because he was attacking homophobia or name-calling oh it's society's fault it's the administration's fault in the meantime guess who's abusing these kids sexually abusing them don't believe me check out the star tribune from may 9 2021 accused of sexually abusing 10 students and so how responsive was the school board the schools the principal the teachers to the for this guy abusing kids for

02010 years 10 years parents reporting it students reporting it on facebook that they've been abused nothing they do nothing because this guy's a superhero right equity and diversity leaders they're superheroes we can't question them we can't hold them accountable we can't check into their character can we before we hire them see if they're using child pornography or see if they've abused kids in the past you know where's the protection for the children and so because of the pride we put these um advocates on platforms and we say oh these are so great nice people maybe they are outwardly but when you ignore claims of sexual abuse that's a very serious problem in our schools he limited himself to 30 years in jail because after him and his lawyers said that well they have nothing to

021do with any of these they're totally innocent um but when the victims came to testify oh suddenly oh yeah we admit it we're guilty we're totally guilty so they could get away with only being sentenced to three people for sexual abuse no murder charges i mean george floyd one person died and we demand the police department the police be disbanded a budget cut where's the budget cut for lgbtq and don't forget the diversity leader at roseville high school also sexually abused kids and now the equity leader in a school in roseville as you've seen in the news is guilty of using district money for their own purposes so we've got a real problem in hiring in this district thank you for listening thank you and then uh angie byrne good evening good evening angela byrne

022uh 10-year roseville resident and proud harambe parent of a first grader who is also trans so the fact that i'm standing here again justifying the existence of my child in front of a public hearing while missing her bedtime is just absolutely infuriating to me because first of all white supremacy as well as homophobia and transphobia can be internalized so people that are oppressed by that same system can also be capable of perpetuating that same type of oppression good people are capable of doing bad things bad people are capable of doing good things we are not good people or bad people we are people capable of all things please stop making the distinction between good and bad people please stop implying that my child who is six and trans is going to grow to be a

023sexual pervert because the lgbtq youth are the most vulnerable to that kind of abuse and that's why they grow up and repeat it because it's generational trauma that is not addressed by our society because we do not talk about it we do not offer enough counseling and mental health services to be able to address it just because one lgbtq person is in the news perpetuating abuse does not mean all people all lgbtq people are bad the suicide attempt rate for lgbtq children is 40 that we know of so i have to worry i have to put my child on suicide watch because people like you are speaking this way or my child can hear you my child can hear you all of you all of you yes they can hear all of you so my

024husband and i spend every night validating her identity and making sure that she has a safe place to land making sure that harambe is a safe space for her making sure that the staff understand what the needs are and making sure that that doesn't get in the way of the diversity and equity education that she is getting at that school because i told her that the last meeting i came to people were speaking against diversity and equity education i said what do you think about that and she made the most confused face and gave it a thumbs down because she does not understand why people do not want diversity and edu and equity education in our schools she is six and she understands this better than the grown-ups in the audience of this room today

025my child is six and she is valid and i will be here every time to make sure that you all hear me and know that keep advancing the diversity and equity in the school district it needs a lot of work we need to keep moving it forward and i will be here as a partner yes fund it all i will give you all the tax dollars of mine to do it yes keep doing what you're doing thank you miss burns with that that concludes the public input portion of tonight so we'll move on to the next item in the agenda next up i would entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda so move second second in kitty thank you any discussion hearing none all in favor say aye aye aye proposed consent agenda's passed

026thank you uh we had no retirement so we did have some gifts this evening director geigens and you're going to share this with us yes as always we're very fortunate and um appreciate the generosity of our community this meeting we have to recognize warren poole and ru who provided funds for a veto tech education center formerly known as fairview for meals on wheels program sheriff muhammad provided brim hall elementary school school supplies for classroom use sorry my computer went off just a moment please hope grove church provided central park elementary school supplies for students in need huv international insurance provided school supplies for students in need for central park and for edgerton elementary turnaround arts provided art supplies for harambee elementary school lynn flagstadt and amy finken provided roseville area high school funds for girls

027cross country team nash lucan provided aries roseville area high school funds for the roz weight room and the falcon heights lauderdale's line club provided funds for the wrestling team at the roseville area high school we greatly appreciate the generosity of our community and supporting our schools thank you kitty and yes as always again healthy generosity very much demonstrated thank you now with that we'll move into our first report on a non-action item and first up is an update and report on summer programming for 2021 and it's going to be led by director of community education karen schaab and i think karen you get interested to introduce us to some of your team also good evening everyone good evening so happy to be here tonight to tell you about some great things that happened this summer

028now we're just going to talk about a few of the items there were a lot of things that traditionally we've done in the past that we continued to do this past summer but we want to hit some of the high points and some things that were different than what we've had before in the past so i've got a great team here and you need to know that behind all this team there are many others that really worked hard this summer and you'll hear why some of the things kind of got changed here and there funding came to us late all kinds of interesting things so tonight i have cindy arneson who's a supervisor of out of school time i have laura freer the principal of fairview alternative high school and i have tad hagan who

029is the supervisor of our adele high school and each of them will share some little different highlights with what happened this past summer thank you karen before we jump in and talk about the present with summer and then what we learned and moving forward we wanted to take an opportunity to set the stage with you about how we came to where we came to with our mindset for the summer so early winter the challenge was thrown down by the minnesota department of education to provide summer programming that would advance and expand accelerate student learning and in the middle of covid that was a tall task for us we a lot of our conversations with our teams centered around did we have the emotional capacity to provide that programming and as we came together as leaders

030and as teams the one thing that shone through was is yes we could do this if we shifted our mindset to be we could be transformational we could challenge the system and we could um build relationships first and move outward from there so in the winter and spring additional funding came through really late spring may which challenge us even further to know you know we're working on a timetable can we do this and the amazing leaders that are up here with me right now as well as the teams that were behind us really came through so tonight we wanted to highlight not only the numbers of summer but the stories that go with those numbers to show you just how we transformed our mindset and made summer a success all right so the numbers you

031see on this slide represent the following programs summer discovery summer arts and music enrichment unity center friendship connection adult learners manufacturing students pathways to high school high school credit recovery pre-k leaders in training meals on wheels and meals served to students i'll just point out the really large number because you might be asking like what number is that the 106 000 number is the number of meals served to our students so um as i said earlier tonight our presentation will center around those numbers but then also pictures that kind of demonstrate the stories behind how summer went for us so this summer we had the great prep privilege of doing summer school for pre-k at harambe so it was our first summer that we really had a site that was really great for summer programming

032we had 30 students and these 30 students had not had any kind of education or pre-k experience so it was the first time that they got the opportunity to be in a setting with other students we worked a lot around social emotional learning and they just had a time of their life and if you know the harambee area you know we have that beautiful outside opportunity those kids were so ready they already owned the building by the time school started so it was it was really great it was a great opportunity to bring in students that hadn't had that opportunity for either one or two years depending on how covet had hit their particular child for our k-8 learning um i'm going to highlight summer discovery which is our targeted services and we extended it

033to five days a week um one day that was just focused on arts programming so we had students go through three different art rotations during that time teachers got to experience that with them they weren't leading during that time because the artists were leading so that was an experience the students and teacher classroom teacher got to experience together and then also got to really focus on relationship building that through that day as well um we provided band and orchestra programming you could see in that photo there we provided busing and we changed the time abandoned orchestra to try to be more inclusive of family um to make it easier on families of how they can get their students there and then we did a three-week arts program at the middle school in august that focused

034on that age range very targeted again provided free transportation just looking for access points for students and then additionally we had friendship connection and we provided over 100 students that traditionally wouldn't have have been able to attend access to the program to continue the sel programming and just high quality program that those students need to have access to after coming off of coven um and i'll just point out this one picture in the corner too that is a mural at the middle school that we're in right now on the lower level that the students in the art program completed in this building oh yeah and i get the pleasure of talking about credit recovery for the high schools this summer credit recovery had a successful experience we totally revamped our programming for both faz and

035raw students we created two models of two different learning models of instruction to complete their the students graduation requirements based on the family's individual situation we had an academy which was an in-person program for students to work with teachers and peers to recover the credit that they may have missed during the school year students had the option to choose and complete one class a week for a total of five credits this summer for perspective that's a whole trimester worth of credit and we did that based on using pre-assessments so we tested students based on their prior knowledge and we filled the gaps we didn't make them start over and relearn stuff that they already could show us that they knew our flexible learning program was for our students who weren't feeling comfortable enough to come

036into the building or because they needed to take care of small children it was an online program developed to allow students to work independently they got to check in with their teachers twice a week via zoom we served over 400 students in both of these models ages 14 to 21 year olds and they earned over 500 credits during this six week period that's the most we've ever earned since i came into working in summer school our el and special ed staff also contributed to the credit earning they connected academic knowledge with a hands-on experience students found success in their classes because they focused on the skills and knowledge that they were needed on day one like i said they didn't have to sit through the entire class if they already knew that had the prior

037knowledge we hired familiar staff in all classes only one teacher was hired outside of the district i am so proud of the fos the rams and the raws teachers that step forward to at least teach their their subject area to our students that needed that familiar face and the number of offerings that we had every week we even had six elective classes that were offered through multiple pathways i was telling ted right before the meeting started when i felt a little nervous about coming up tonight on tuesday of the last week of school three young girls came up to us and said i am so excited and i was like why because you're here and she goes and they said no i am this much closer to graduation because of the credits i earned this

038summer i could actually do it this year this was not the conversation that i had with those students in the spring i believe the best reason that summer school was so successful is because of our students they came in when they were tired of zooming they were tired of wearing masks and they did it they showed up ready to learn and they were very successful before i talk about avee i just want to share one more story sorry lauren the last day of summer programming um for the academy program i visited um and we were just debriefing and a student came running through the doors and he had a clp which is a basically a contract that the students fill out that explain what credits they're going to recover and they get signed and whatnot

039and he ran through he goes i had to turn this in because i wanted to get this in so i can get my credit and eric thornton who works with laura said great we love you and the student's like i love you and then he left um he walked all the way in to ewing which is on the other side of ra's to do that and the emotion and the love that the teachers showed him and he reciprocated was was special so i just want to share that adult basic education the numbers that you saw on the screen we had 114 adult learners choose to stay with us this summer and i use the word choose because these are parents and these are adult learners who have jobs who are second shift who work third

040shift sometimes and then show up the next morning on a zoom with our teachers going into the planning of summer i'll talk about assumptions we assumed as leaders that our teachers and our students wouldn't want to carry through another year of learning on distance learning that maybe they wanted the summer off and we were surprised our assumptions were shattered because we had 114 students who wanted to show up and not only did they want to stay for the four weeks we originally planned they stayed an extra week or a week after doing distance learning on platforms or any which way they could and our teachers wanted to keep teaching we thought they'd want to stop take a break but no they wanted to be there for their students and so we're very proud of that

041the pictures you see above the top pictures are from our amr program which stands for apprentice and manufacturing ready we had a cohort of eight students this summer and i'll just highlight and do a shout out that the we were in transition in buildings and rams really came through for us our students had the opportunity to actually use an industrial technology room for the first time and they loved it i mean we left things just how we found them and and i unfortunately can't remember the teacher's name but the first week of programming he sent us a an email that said hey this machine doesn't work so great this machine needs this and tim o'brien who's our our teacher of the program said well we brought our own tools but the fact that he was

042willing to let us use his tools was just really a change for us that was fantastic we've placed four of those students into trades this summer four students um out of that eight so 50 placement which is about where we usually sit with our cohorts down below are some pictures from our new building which our students are loving um they are just raving about it the sunlight and the energy in there is just fantastic so the first picture is from our it pathway program uh and then the other two pictures are from of our el students learning uh like um as hard as they usually do so what we carry forward moving from this is that that mindset of just we can overcome so yeah so because we're always lifelong learners and we're good reflectors

043we need to take some time or we needed to take some time at the end of summer school to really think about what went well what do we need to move forward so that's what cindy and i will be talking about so take a few moments and think back to the pictures that we just showed you on the slides each student represents the learning that was done because of the program we offer we offered art in the classroom for our elementary students as cindy said and provided them an extra day of learning in the number of years that i've been in the district even as a teacher we only offered summer school for four days a week this year we went all five and teachers did it we also had access to high quality learning

044options again we had over 100 students have the opportunity to stay engaged in our schools by our friendship connection program for free we also provided transportation for band orchestra and art programs for elementary learners we offered electives to our high school students to give the students a hands-on learning experience in the workforce in the new auto shop at roz and in the new kitchens at roz and let me tell you whatever they made was amazing and i got an oil change it just it was a break the elective week was the third week of our programming and it was just a great break for students to have those hands-on experiences to really delve into the next two weeks after and then the online option for adult learners for tad's program they use zoom as a

045platform and we really appreciated that the district put money towards the talking points program that allowed our adult learning center to communicate with students we also used dialogue one and they that was helpful to continue to communicate and connect with families as our students were progressing towards their goals at the high school level we use standards-based learning using the standards to complete the credit to continue their learning not to start over we wanted to show our students the not yet philosophy and the last thing that i expected of all my teachers in the credit recovery program is that they were to use the avid wicker strategies and the one teacher that we had hired outside of the district we quickly got her caught up on what wicker was could you refresh this what the acronym

046stands for sure thanks for putting me on the spot now writing inquiry collaboration organization and reading thank you so what's needed to replicate this in the future funding to provide robust programming the state funded us four dollars more per student k12 for summer learning we were able to use esser and gears dollars because of coven that allows us to continue to run the elective courses at the high school level the arts programming busing pieces all those hiring roseville school staff laura talked about the success of her program was because rosella school staff led that the relationship that our roseville staff have with our students and our families and not having to build that you know is is so important the fact that our roosevelt school staff know the systems no technology know our buildings sets

047us up for success and kind of gets a jump start right we're not starting from ground zero so we know how important having rose larry school staff teaching our summer programs is access to spaces that meet the program needs ted talked about this right he talked about how having amr in in a space that was appropriate for what they were doing was so important making sure that we have enough space for our summer discovery and its appropriate space for the age of our students and then the final piece is a transformational mindset for learning opportunities and that's the most important that's why it's bolded there um i think that we we started this off by saying that was one of the biggest pieces that we had to shift in ourselves and now recognizing that as

048we move forward this mindset is crucial not just for those planning but for all those involved in operating and executing had to look at that so the last number we got to know what that is it's the students who students and adult who chose summer to start continue and expand their lifelong learning and we learned a lot from the summer that we hope to carry through in future summers and we also hope that along the way our state continues to maybe support us a little bit more than they have in the past um past summers because i think we can show them what a difference we made when laura got done talking about what happened at summer school i said you got to call the state tell them what tell them how you did something

049different today that made a big impact on our students so we're happy to take any questions that anyone has sure thanks karen fellow board members any questions or thoughts curtis okay um so so far this is not new because i was um you had sent out um credit recovery numbers um earlier and that kind of blew my mind um uh i i am i am beyond impressed this is this is um i i i i mean normally i i ask okay what would you do in the future you actually have already addressed that um but um i i love that you were able to use some of our new spaces um i i saw that one of the classes was cooking i was like oh gosh i'm hoping to get them into the those those

050new kitchens um and apparently you were able to do that at rosebury high school so i did two classes in the kitchens and and then and maybe maybe next summer we can get your music class in the new auditorium which will be open but you know by then um sorry i had i had a specific thing i wanted to ask okay so is there so you have six elective classes this year is there is a their desire to increase that number in in next year is something you've got yes as soon as we hear about the funding sources sure yes because i think if since we built it they came and students um they loved those courses so yes i would love to expand okay um excellent and were you able to did you talk

051to someone at the state about i did i got a response right away and from sally reynolds who is our mde specialist for alternative ed and at our next meeting at the meeting after she got my email i had to explain the whole thing to everyone else in the state so okay i was very proud to share our success outstanding because um that that is this is this is something that everyone should know about so so good work everybody thank you kitty could you comment on which students were offered to participate how many students wanted to participate if we could accommodate everybody who wanted to participate so in essence the criteria for um students being able to participate and whether we could accommodate all those interested in and at my level or in both so

052okay so you want me to start we were not able to accommodate all of the students who wanted a lot of our students wanted all five weeks and what we did is we started with the oldest group of students because they're closest to graduation so we filled classes up with um seniors and juniors and then we filled in with sophomores and freshmen and so we only offered so many classes because those were the amount of teachers that i could hire and so if i was able to get more teachers i would have been able to run more sections but i think having students i think most students were able to get into two classes at least out of the five weeks and i think all students who wanted an elective class got an elective class

053very quick follow-up to lr so if you couldn't get the teachers is because we didn't have the funding for you to hire the teachers is because you tried to recruit but weren't successful because we're just being hurt by the teacher shortage i think it was it was more the recruitment i was really proud of the number that i could get and so i wasn't really sure how i could add more sections without having those teachers i didn't want to have to turn kids away the last minute we did actually add two sections we we pulled two teachers from flex learning who said that they would do the academy classes to help us out so we ran two sections of um world studies nine and um he was intermediate algebra so for first through eighth grade

054we um we did not have the cap out and we actually had to reduce the number of sites that we were going to be offering programming at because we didn't get it the turnout actually that we thought we would from students and we actually had the opposite of laura we actually with rosemary school staff we did not have many rosemary school staff that were at the capacity to teach in the summer and i think that affected us as well because when we don't have our own staff teaching and really encouraging our students to come to their class right um i think their response is is maybe that they don't show up then or don't want to sign up i also think we're coming off of a hard year and that a lot of families just

055wanted a break too so i think there's many components there but we offered whoever wanted to whoever asked to show up got a spot and everybody qualified for possibly participating um you did like we did target certain families to participate because if you were not meeting grade level in math or um reading that was our first markers but many students this year did not meet that right so it was basically because it was such a challenging year and at the high school level you do have to have failed a class in order to recover it and at the high school level it sounded like you offered classes that were combined fos and roz is that correct or were there separate classes um i believe this is the third year we did combined classes ras and

056fast students thank you um tad um i think those numbers with the amr programs going back to that are just outstanding and just um you know maybe refreshing remembering how that mr program came about or for the members of the public too just because i remember i think it was a grant program or partly a grant program i just i just think it's such a wonderful program and i know the group came before the board here and told us about it and told us about the grant so yeah and tim o'brien who's our our teacher of it he'd be happy to come back and give you a presentation anytime he he loves talking about about amr but the genesis of the program came before i came but it is a it's a deed grant it's

057a p2p which is prosper pathway to prosperity um and it's a two-year grant and we just ended our previous grant and we've written deed to get another one but in the meantime in the six months to cover it we we have it fully funded ready to go we have a cohort of eight students right now working out of uh so we're we're really flowing and uh we placed four students into um trades two finishing trades one mason and then another general construction and they're all employed right now and um so yeah it's it's a great program tim does an amazing job and our partnership with current organization of minnesota is huge for us in terms of the grant is written towards a southeast asian perspective but we've served u.s born folks in our summer program

058and it it just is really is a highlight of our program we we really enjoy it and using that model we're branching off into other pathways as well which is why the space thing is important for us um being up on the slide deck because um tim loves and our students love having their own space now you got to visit the other day and see it and they're making it their own and before they were just in a classroom kind of just making it work and so we're super excited to be able to have that space for them to learn a variety of contextual things for for career yeah thank you and you're right tim could talk all day so as you can see our group is really excited about the opportunities we had and

059we see lots of opportunities for growth in this coming year and we see that our students will be coming back strong it's just taking a little while sometimes to get folks comfortable and coming back into school and sorry kitty i think you were going to say something i was just going to say thank you very much for all this amazing work and helping our students learn and as we look forward to next summer it sounded like funding was the major concern you had but it also sounded like perhaps staffing issues were another question is there any way we as a board can help support your work yeah i think that we're going to have to see a little bit i think there still might be some funding available for us this next coming summer we

060might not have spent all the money that was allowed to us this summer we still have to see how that all comes out but that ability to add that extra four dollars let us do some things that normally we would not have had the money to do so i think that's it and i think next summer we'll see more of our own teachers coming back i just think some of them really just needed needed a break we also do plan to have some focus groups to find out you know what can we do to help incentivize incentivize that as well is it the length of time is it the you know number of weeks how can we can we collaborate positions to make it you know we need to think differently too so are the

061comments or questions yeah i i guess you know this is such a great story because there's such a narrative out there around all the learning laws and all the ways that our students are not engaged and to hear the success of what is going on in the summer um and how can we continue it's it's it's uh it's really in talk about the mindset right really shifting the fact that it's possible it is possible when we put our mind to it so i just was thinking about how do we make sure that their story those numbers the that data the stories are are told whether it is in you know i was just thinking about whether it's in msba um magazine or some way to share this right just to have a counter narrative of

062what the narrative is out there about our students about families about teachers even though you still have the shortage the one who showed up need to have have their voice lifted right the fact that they showed up and they stayed all summer for the students that's a story in itself so really thank you so much for the work rose i appreciate that after on the last day of summer school my staff stick around my admin team and we really talk about like what can we change going forward and someone brought up the fact that just what you mentioned um we feel privileged that we had so many roseville staff working with us at roz and now all of those staff go back into their other three buildings and we can just light that fire within

063those three buildings so word of mouth for staff who had success teaching this way not only will continue to do that during summer school but hopefully during the school year that transformational mindset thank you okay really short thing um i just think it was a it was brilliant okay when you you did something different um specifically um when you were teaching the kids what they were missing not what they already knew okay it's it's such a simple concept okay um but it hasn't been done and it's easy it's i can just see how kids would be more engaged it's like okay this is what i i didn't get before and so let's let's just dive into that let's figure that out so um so so photos just i just love that and we're gonna and

064and uh director chu is uh i agree completely director true i think we're going to be contacting you later to try to get this story out in a couple of different evidences thank you other questions your comments thank you i think as everybody said you know all of us on the board we guys i think we see these programs as jewels in the ground um it distinguishes roseville it really demonstrates that we're not just about the under the middle level curve you know traditional learner it's it's kids it's adults it's everybody that has the need for a bit of a non-traditional or a bit of a special pathway to help them achieve what they what they want to do what they need to do especially in adult programs to get on with a life that's

065much more productive and much more under their own control in terms of what they want to do in their life they want to lead so it's it's a great set of programs and congratulations on the summer and continuing success and i think what kitty said is very true and you know as curtis and rose get back to you let us know what we can do to help let's get this out there let's continue to get the message and proselytize for this because i think it's a real it's real benefit to the district to have these programs very strong and as full as we can make them just to help everyone in whatever learning stage they are in their life benefit from the district so thank you very much thank you thank you thank you for

066your support [Music] so next up we have director of student achievement jake vondalinda who will share with us the mca reports i guess it's both participation and proficiency tonight jake it will be mca testing and some proficiency and mostly uh participation so excellent definitely a different report this year than than they have in years past well you know it's been a different kind of year i think so definitely yeah thank you well thanks for having me here for this evening yep i'll move that closer uh i'm bringing you a very different report uh this evening than years in past the 2021 school year was significantly impacted by kova 19 pandemic we transitioned as many other districts did through a variety of learning models including distance learning uh blended learning and in-person learning which significantly interrupted

067instruction for students and impacted the participation in our mca test as well last spring we had students in all of the learning models that i mentioned previously and we offered multiple testing opportunities for students but not surprisingly all families wanted their students in person to take a standardized assessment so in looking at the report tonight i'll be focusing a lot of attention on our participation in the mcas and less on our proficiency because of our reduced participation we cannot and should not compare our results to previous years i wanted to provide you with the with that background information as context for when i walk you through the rest of this report we'll start with mca math and walking you through the participation information first and then we'll take a look at some proficiency i use

068math as kind of a test case so i provide some more information in math than i provide and some of the other ones and i just wanted to provide that for you and explain that as we walk through some of the slides so so for our first slide this is our math participation percent for our spring of 2021 we typically have around 98 percent of our students participate in our testing so you can see here this year we were at 61 percent in math which is about a 37 percent percentage point reduction or more than a third less students that typically take our tests the state average was 76 percent which was also 15 percentage points above ours and in looking at our comparable districts we were fairly typical for a first ring suburb but

069i found that as you move out towards move out of the city into those second and third ring suburbs the participation rates were higher so taking a look at this slide we have participation by grade comparing our grades that participated in the mca to the statewide average again we typically have around 97 to 98 of our student body participating in each grade so you can notice the lower participation rates as we get into the upper grades with with the lowest in our 11th grade and in high school students were tested on a day that was held only for students to take that test in the tested grades so that was another input i think implication of that testing participation in 11th grade and as we look at this slide this is comparing our participation rates

070to the statewide averages by race you can see that our highest participation rate is for our white students and hispanic students and all of our groups were below the state average for comparable student groups and this slide looks at our special populations or specific populations of students compared to our state groups a lot of these student groups were also below our statewide averages with our el participation more closely aligned to our statewide average so this next slide is our first slide with actual uh proficiency and not participation so this is a look at our district-wide proficiency in math for all students we were below the statewide average by about seven and a half percentage points and just for context our previous mca scores from 2019 was 49 proficiency with the statewide average of 55 percent

071so we were about 6 percentage points below the state average so this if we were to say we comparing which we're not but it would be about 12 percentage points below our last result so this slide compares our proficiency to the statewide average for each grade level i share this to just show the variance in each of our grades with some below the state average and with some below the state and some above and they are all impacted by the rate of participation so if you look at 11th grade which i had mentioned previously you can see we were just below the state average however this was only a representation of 22 percent of our students that tested and only about 50 percent of the state that had tested as well so this just this

072slide to me just shows how we shouldn't be comparing our results to the state this year and jake just as a clarifying question what's the end just ballpark i can give you that an exact amount um can i give it to you at the end mike yeah you can yeah i mean it's kind of like by grade level like those you know like is it ten fourth graders is it 100 is it a thousand it's around 300 probably 300 for each grade by grade level okay but i can give you exact numbers that's good enough that's why i brought my computer thank you this provides uh this next slide provides a look at proficiency in our student groups the participation rate again was varied by our different groups as you can recall our white students

073and hispanic students had higher rates participation compared to some of our other groups the proficiency rate by student group is left out of the other slides so i don't think the data is helpful but i wanted to show you how this looks just for math you can see most students groups are down by about 12 percentage points from our 2019 data so do you mind being interrupted go ahead yeah yes is is there a is is the curve of the proficiency by either student group my student group at all the same shape as a curve by participation by student group which could suggest there's a correlation between students who participated who didn't being those who would or would not have been more or less proficient or do they not superimpose at all and it's really

074just kind of you know random and you get my point it's it is were those kids that opted out of participating more likely to be either higher or lower really proficient or does it not correlate at all and you may have no data you would answer that question yeah i i can look at that i i feel like um it's a difficult question to answer for me right now just because i have i didn't look at it in that in that way um so i'm not i'm not even gonna provide conjecture on that so i'm curious thank you um yeah and it it it was just so different in in it's like in 11th grade who participated and when they participated and why they participated so you'll even find in science we had a lot

075more participation in um our science testing than we did in our math testing so um yeah i can go back and look at that but um i don't want to provide you with that it's probably more valid to look at it in future years right to see if there's anything that we could act on if there is even a correlation than this past year correct thank you yep so mca reading we'll keep on going to our next slide but this one provides the participation again um participation percentages for reading they're very similar to our math percentages for both of our both roseville schools and the state and we we are about two percentage points higher than our math ones that so we had a little bit more participation and our next slide is the difference

076between testing by grade level and again compared to our statewide averages again we were below the statewide average for each of our grade levels with our 10th grade students being the lowest and our sixth grade being the highest rate of participation and this is looking at mca reading by proficiency and it does show our proficiency compared to the state average so reading was actually above the statewide average which differed from math in 2019 we were about three percentage points below the statewide average for reading but we were right around 56 where the state was right around 59 in 2019 our proficiency in reading was more comparable to 2019 than our math scores this was a typical trend that we did see around the united states that math proficiency was more decreased more than reading experts

077and researchers that i've read have suggested that it was a lot easier for families to provide reading instruction and support than in math their theory is that math needs more technical expertise and knowledge you can't just hand a student a math book and say go go go do some of this work where you can just sometimes do that with with reading he can hand them a book and say hey go take a look at this um and so we did see that that big difference there so our next slide shows our reading scores compared to the state average again you can notice that our 10th grade is well above the state average and also remember that our 10th grade students had the lowest participation rate of any grade which was only about half of what

078the state participated as so again this just makes the case for how looking at our scores can be very deceptive this next one is our reading proficiency by our student groups again it's difficult to compare these proficiency scores as we had so much variation between the participation of our groups and our last subject area is science again this is um this first slide is comparing our overall participation rates to the state and you can see science was a different experience than reading and math as we were more like the state in our participation and we were and that was typical for other districts as well some of our comparable districts all of them seem to have a higher participation rate with science and i think that's a result of science having a longer testing window

079so science typically goes a week longer than reading and math and also when we did our science testing at the high school level we actually did that when the students were in their class so we did have a higher rate at the high school level as well so this next slide is looking at participation by our grade again you can see that our high school participation rate in science was was well above our rates in reading which was around 35 percent and math which was around 22 percent so it was it also was well above the the state average for for science so this proficiency wise we were below the state about three percentage points and also below our proficiency rate in the state was about seven percent below that that proficiency rate in 2019

080as well and our next one is looking at our scores our proficiency by grade and for science it's a little bit different than our reading and math so we have our mca sciences given in only fifth eighth and um in high school after a student completes their biology course so that's why you see those different grades listed than some of the other science and our math and reading so this is a look at our proficiency in science by our student groups once again and i'm going to move this on to our summary of our data so you can see that our mca tests were waived because of the cova 19 pandemic in the spring of 2020 and we don't have any testing data for that spring and so that's just context again for you all

081as well so our most recent data would have been our full testing was 2019. the spring of 2021 was also significantly impacted by covert 19 where students were in blended in-person or distance learning models which significantly impacted participation as you could see so we saw a 37 percent decrease in student participation in our roseville area schools and a 21 decrease in statewide participation as well and because of that our participation we really can't and shouldn't compare proficiency rates results to previous years and we did see differences in our student participation by race with a higher proportion of white students testing than our bipoc students i lost my last slide so continuing our summary if i i lost my slide here my apologies our scores mirrored current national and statewide trends which showed a greater decrease

082in math and reading and again we are fully in person this year and are focused on some learning acceleration which is not remediation um and supporting students social emotional learning and you did hear about that on our tuesday of back to school workshop as well if you were there learning acceleration is a part of our professional development plan it's core instruction given to all students it's an approach that prepares students for success in grade level content by front loading prerequisite prior knowledge that students should know vocabulary those types of things so that we can accelerate student learning into the grade level providing some diagnosis for diagnostic quick diagnostics for the things that are coming up that are to be learned and getting them those prerequisite things knowledge content vocabulary those types of things that they

083need prior to that we do believe that that will assist in interrupting our pandemic learning that was interrupted as well as some long-standing systemic inequities this will be a long-term plan that we're rolling out this year and learned about last spring as well so i am ready for question sure yeah follow-up jenny yeah i might add jake thanks for excellent presentation i just want to add that in terms of logistics testing was held on campus in all of our schools and we had a greater percentage of our white students participating in in-person learning although we did provide transportation to all students to to be transferred to the buildings to take the test but i think that certainly does impact the participation absolutely yes and we did offer transportation like you said and tried to provide

084multiple ways of getting our getting the information out to our students in multiple languages putting that into the hands of our cultural liaisons and to our cultural facebook groups as well to try and uh increase participation but we also know that a lot of families in the last spring were still very concerned about where we were in the pandemic and the minnesota department of education also did provide some more flexibility in our coding if a student did decide not to participate or a family decide not to participate in the test which gave us some some greater flexibility so thank you questions comments observations kitty as we work on accelerated learning is there any insight from these test results that help us frame what we need to do or is the local formative assessments really driving

085that much more informative as we're trying to help our students uh accelerate their learning yeah throughout last year that's really what we had to work with is is our especially in our our common formative assessments that we give as a part of our teams that that teachers are in their collaborative teams as a part of professional learning community so um that was our focus last year and that's what we told our our teachers to focus on is that what's called like street level data right not that high up high from the mountaintop type of type of data but that right at that level that you're working with your students and really working with your team of teachers to come up with those assessments that that are based on our power standards that we know that

086our students need to learn so really a focus on that on those priority standards that we had set so and going into this year that's a that's we're continuing to do that um and i would say the biggest takeaway that i would take from this is is our math instruction was our most interrupted instruction so we are working at the elementary level um with the cognitively guided instruction or or cgi as an approach to teaching math we've been working on that for a number of years but really scaled that up over this um this spring and summer and we'll be rolling that out to a larger group of teachers coming up the october 4th training and we have a professional development day and then also on november 2nd so thank you for your questions comments

087frank yeah i just more comments i appreciate this uh report jake i was kind of hoping that with the uh with not having the tests in 2020 and having all participation in the tests in 2021 that the state would just abandon the darn test so you know this is my this is my 12th report on mcas starting back in the mid you know 2007 or something where we were under no child left behind we had the ridiculous graphs showing what we had to do in order to get 100 proficiency by 2013. it's it's always been kind of absurd to me even though you know i appreciate i appreciate the work you do i don't want to to um you know try trying to make sense of the data but i think you know i feel

088like the state will have finally come to terms with the education that it's supposed to be providing when it abandons these tests and trusts the teachers to do the work that they're paid to do and and uh that's i'm not holding my breath for that but i think i think we will have we will have matured when that when when that finally happens thank you thank you other questions comments looks like we're good jake thank you very much and mike i did write down your question too thank you thank you very much thank you next up we have sherry thompson our business director with the monthly financial report and you going to share something on the screen it looks like we have no signal here i don't know if there's a technical um actually i'm

089not okay all right i was more focused on not falling in the steps there you go because of my coordination level um so yes just as far as a quick update on where we we are at with our finances uh is uh for fiscal year 2021 we are working um very hard to close our books we're working with auditors they are out in person this week and we're completing that final close and then we'll be assembling our financial statements um i will say with the addition of the one-time federal funds which were greatly appreciative of the reporting on that there are more restrictive it's similar to our title funds and some of our federal special ed funds so we're working through that um we haven't had any major weaknesses identified for several years in our

090system so that's helping things as we move along through that and then for 21 22 um you know we've just completed this is for the month of uh july or actually the month of august that we're reporting on so we've just completed the first two months so as of the end of august you know it's pretty much administrative and custodial salaries so we'll start seeing the expenses related to instructional salaries next month when we report out also we continue to focus on our coven 19 mitigation and the impacts to learning and the costs associated with that and we're continuing to monitor our enrollment october 1 of course is a big day because we'll really kind of take a look at maybe students that hadn't shown up but we're getting some positive signs from central enrollment

091however as well we're seeing um a few students continue to enroll almost daily so um i think that that's a positive sign for us and that's this friday right go ahead i'm sorry um are those students who who have been doing online options elsewhere and are now coming coming back to in-person learning with us yes these are students that have um are made they may be homeschooling uh it may have homeschooled they may have been um attended elsewhere um but yes i know one day last week they had maybe last thursday they had six students enroll on thursday wow so we're just continuing to see that activity that's good um yeah so we will be reporting out on that next month great any other questions or comments for sherry hearing none we'll move up quickly

092i'm just definitely i think we all are definitely interested in the enrollment in terms of who is coming back right why they are coming back what what is it that attract them back right because i think the pandemic isn't over but there's something you know that they want to come back for in person or some of the policies that we have in place that make them feel like they are ready to come back so it would be great to find out more about that yes yes and we will report out on that right and hopefully you know with some of uh with the mitigation strategies that we've implemented families are more comfortable right yeah thank you sherry uh i guess stay there because that's our last donation we're gonna move into our action items and

093the first one is again sherry thompson business director to lead us through our vote on the preliminary levy certification that we could provide to the property tax people yes so as as a matter of business the board similar to cities and counties every september you authorize or you certify what's called a preliminary levy so it's basically in the case of the school district none of those dollars in the and and what's um estimated to be levied against pro local property taxes excuse me they're not discretionary that's the one thing that you know the school district can't balance their budget and determine how much they need in local property taxes that being one of the big differences between school districts and cities and counties none of those dollars are discretionary they are either authorized by the

094state legislature most cases they're done by formula or they're by local vote local voter approval so for instance back in 2017 when our community when we were fortunate enough for the community to support the bond the bond referendum again we had to go out to the voters on that otherwise it's it's all set by the legislature it is a detailed very detailed process we there's about 5 000 lines of calculations which we are currently working through we are still working through that um the board does need to authorize or uh or certify the preliminary levy by september 30th and we continue to work with the department of education and ellers um it's been a little bit more challenging this year than in the past but we are very close and it's and we're not alone

095a lot of the bigger districts especially with the long-term facilities maintenance and the department's been great they're running reports twice a day and cranking them out and we're and we're getting uh much closer on that so what we are asking and this is not any different from any other year uh we are asking that the board authorized the maximum on the preliminary levy uh this evening because when you go to approve the final levy in december you can always lower that typically that hasn't occurred but if you if you approve a defined dollar amount and there are adjustments or as we finalize the even the ltfm if that number increases you cannot increase your levy so um and so to protect that we suggest and always recommend that the preliminary uh levy uh be approved

096uh at the maximum level and then just a couple of talking points um overall and we will share this once it's finalized i'm hoping that's by the end of the week overall and looking at our general fund it remains the general fund remains relatively stable i want to say right now we're estimating um should the levy can should the operating levy uh our existing one that that is actually sun setting should that be um reauthorized we'll be looking at about a point eight percent decrease in the overall levy right now because the levy is set to expire so right now in the department's calculations they do not include that that eight million dollars so i just want to be clear on that and that's also why we'll get that once we have the finals out

097because that needs to be reauthorized so you know initially it appears it may appear that we have like an 18 reduction in our general fund because it does not include that existing authority that is sun setting thank you questions kitty so when our residents receive their statement this fall that has taxes in there it in essence will look like there's a significant decrease because of the levy sun setting but that could potentially change if that passes and certainly then of course if it increases that will be also impacted yes and in the property tax statement that you receive in mid-november it's the proposed property tax statement based on what local governments certify in september and it states right on there that it does not include anything that was passed or authorized at in the november

098election so it's not going to be particularly insightful this year for free correct um because you're right it's going to show that reduced amount and then there's just a you know a blanket statement stating that the november election uh is not included so um so on years like this sometimes we obviously when the final tax statements go out in march we see an increased number of inquiries and i think there's there's ways that we can communicate that even beforehand because obviously we want to continue to be transparent yeah and that's what i was going to ask like how can we communicate that right so that people are not just totally blindsided by it right and it comes out after the election right but right if um but otherwise and i think we can do that

099we can work with um josh our communications director and include that even in their 623 and other messaging yeah okay thank you other questions or comments that i'd entertain a motion and a second to approve the preliminary level levy payable 2022 at the max thank you frank second i think rose got the second any discussion among us board hearing none all in favor say aye aye aye opposed passes thank you sherry uh the next this is still sure still sure yeah uh sherry you're still there you're the star uh resolution authorizing the issue to the general obligation maintenance funds take it away yes thank you so as part of the long-term facilities maintenance plan um that was adopted that you adopt annually it was adopted in august the board reauthorized the long the maintenance projects

100uh 10-year plan as you do every year as part of that action or to complete the final step we are looking at issuing some facility maintenance bonds which you have done before every few years or every couple years we do that to help support the ltfm 10-year plan so as part of that we need you to just approve the resolution or authorize the resolution so that we can notify the department of education that at some point in 2022 you will be issuing bonds right now we're estimating those bonds to be about 13 million dollars we are um obviously uh updating um our ltfm plan as far as specifics uh we have started however we have started uh pulling bids together and putting things together for this upcoming summer which will address brim hall elementary school

101and i believe we shared that in august and um and then again the bonds cover cover a couple of years we have listed also falcon heights elementary in looking at looking at some of the dollars that we're receiving through the american rescue plan for a couple of years out we have some flexibility because we have talked about will be coming to the board uh with addressing some of those hvac needs so we've got falcon heights listed but that's i mean that's two years out that's not finalized because we have a couple of elementaries or depending on where the funding sources are coming from but there will be another elementary likely falcon heights in the summer of 2023 and again our plan is on these elementaries to close them down for one summer and do not

102only updating the mechanical systems but then at that same time taking care of updates to flooring lighting ceilings and then getting you know that way getting out of that building get it done get out of that building and then uh move on to the next thank you any questions for sheri with that in motion in a second to approve this so moved thank you kitty second thank you courtesy any further discussion among us seeing that all in favor say aye opposed again passage unanimously thank you sheriff thank you thank you i think that was our the end of our action items and so next up is the report on our study session from two weeks ago and i believe director anderson is going to be reporting on that for us tonight todd thank you our

103study session on september 14th started with the covet health and safety update from covet health coordinator dem league communications director josh collins and assistant superintendent melissa sonic the board received information on our ongoing coveted mitigation strategies plus we were updated on some new mitigation efforts we were shown the covid19 page on our district website and it was noted that there is a new level of detail with our frequently asked questions section we then went through some important data points on our coven 19 dashboard deb concluded our health and safety update with some important points around our quarantine and isolation process which as a reminder to families and staff can be found on our district website the covent mitigation team stressed that students staff and families are following best practice recommendations it was noted that our

104unsung heroes in all of this are building staff and custodial workers need to be recognized as they continue to daily or or as needed wipe down our high touch services in all of our school district buildings and our second topic of the study session was an overview of the new lgbtq plus equity council out of school time manager tom krueger roz social studies teacher danny tollefson and assistant superintendent sonic all took turns highlighting the work of the council and its four subcommittees the council was developed last year and meets every other month miss tollefson highlighted the lgbtq plus professional development that was presented to staff on september 7th professional development like taking staff through various scenarios of support is an important step in making sure all of our lgbtq plus students feel comfortable and welcomed

105in our school district it was noted that there might be opportunities for more professional development in the future thank you todd with that we'll go to any general board reports and they wish us to share with us tonight anybody have anything break just briefly there's a 9 16 retreat tomorrow so i'm going to be retreating with the 916 board and uh i was i would would have given a more thorough report two weeks ago but um the main thing i just wanted to talk about with 916 is that we have a new joint powers agreement now that's been i don't know has that been brought to us or is that coming okay it's being being reviewed mostly the change as i understand it is in um what sort of penalties accrue when you abandon uh

106916 which i don't think we're likely to be doing in any way they depend they get less and less with seniority and so i think we're we're in very good shape having been in kind of from the beginning but anyway that's that's been a big uh a large task that's been going on over the last year at 9 16. and i think that's really all i have to say thank you anyone else curtis um i guess i'd first like to thank the league of women voters roseville do good roosevelt and ramsey county library allowing me to be a panelist on their real-life mr rogers series part one it was a a fun time was had by all there will be a a part two which i will not be part of but you should watch

107it anyway it's on uh and that'll be on october 21st um from 7 to 8 30. so if you go to do good rolls rolls or legal one league of women voters roseville facebook or websites um you can sign up there um some good stuff and and part one is available if you want to watch that um i was able to attend um the roz homecoming football game and this this this homecoming was particularly special because it was kind of our first one out with everybody everybody back and uh it was uh i i thoroughly enjoyed myself the student section was um uh and then full throat and they just it was great just to see people having just good clean fun um so as someone who's attended way too many you know national football

108games it was just just fun all right so um the score can go away but you know it was every everybody was having a great time so really really enjoyed that um um attended the uh state of the district i'm going i'm going to leave that um you know to dr lake to um expand upon that but it was a first time we we've done that here and i i think that went really well so it's online if you haven't seen it um then um a couple years ago professor lavery lavery from my alma mater mcallister came and brought her class to sit in with us and um so it was time for me to return the favor so she invited me over to her education politics and policy class and um i got to

109just sit in and and be a guest speaker there and have a great time talking to students about what it is like to be a school board member um in the age of quoted and um you know to to sum up it's it's hard work but when you get to work with such wonderfully talented people you know it's uh it makes it all work well so um then finally no two more things so um as you might know um uh i have been a member of the minnesota social studies review committee um now for a little over a year and so we had our last meeting as a as a a full group um on the 21st and um was able to make our final recommendations those will go off to the commissioner of education

110um who will then make any changes she sees fit and then has to go through a law judge and there's a bunch of stuff that has to happen so it may be the better part of another year before we get to see what the the final version looks like but um and and no doubt will look different than what we presented but um i'm hoping that um most of what um we've put in uh uh remains in there so a a you know a folks a focus on absent narratives um and uh just so just some really good stuff i'm i'm i'm proud of the the working life committee um and i'm humbled to be um to play a role in that so when will it be implemented then when 2027 is when it will

111go into yes so it's a long process it's a very long process yeah so so you're being very deliberate about it yeah yeah yeah so it will also like officially will go so so what will happen is assuming everything goes fine it will officially okay so officially go into fact somewhere 2023 is is this the soft thing right but then everybody it goes out and then everybody has to work to change their curriculum sure of course okay buy roughly your best guess right now somewhere 2027 is when one would expect those changes to show up in curriculum across the state do you think that roseville is sort of moving in that direction already i mean surely there is some of i mean it's the standards but but it seems to me like this has been

112in the air for a while a lot of times roseville is ahead of the curve on a number of things okay and so like one of the things that should it remain in there that um a modification would have to be made is that an ethnic studies strand was added okay so um don't know if that will survive there you know there's been talk about weaving that there's been been talk going back and forth about weaving that into world history um or just weaving that into multiple other strands um so we'll kind of have to wait and see what the final uh bit looks like but uh if that were to happen you know that's something we'd have to make some some modifications for but yeah i think roseville area schools isn't good isn't a

113good place um you know there there are just a number of things we're just already doing yeah you know um yeah so you know it's gonna it's gonna be good and and this is something i told other you know i tell other folks is that this gives you know not not every school is doing what we're doing okay so disk is other schools that want to do this license to do it so yes good um very very happy about that um and then my last thing is um uh is uh we have i think it's mentioned before we have an open house um for uh okay um october 5th from 4 30 to 7 pm if you're available please stop on by um you're gonna be we're gonna have tours we're gonna it's it is

114a is a beautiful facility um and if you can't make it a lot of snow will work out some kind of two hours later but um it's gonna it's gonna be a a great time um and i will leave it uh yes i'll leave it there [Music] thank you curtis anyone else kitty i have a very brief tonight but i really wanted to thank the district for putting so many things online such as the state of the education report i was unfortunately unable to make it that evening but i could watch it online and it is online for anybody out listening to the today's board meeting that is available and is definitely worth watching and very informative i wanted to mention for individuals who are interested around the school board election the league of women

115voters that invited all five candidates running for school board for a moderated forum on october 7th from 6 30 to 8 and that will be available on 9 north in terms of its visibility unfortunately with the current situation they're not having an audience but it is available online and anybody who has any questions to submit can submit them ahead so there's definitely an opportunity for that kind of building on curtis's announcement about a better teacher i also wanted to mention on october 11th that high school will have an open house for the new building at 5 5 30 and six tours i know that i've heard from a lot of people asking when that would be and hoping our community has some way about hearing about that we'll add it tonight obviously but anyway we

116can get that out to people because i think that's a great opportunity for our community to see some of those wonderful um new facilities that they've helped that they've funded thank you kitty ty i had a meeting to attend i had a chance uh to attend the first meeting of the district curriculum advisory committee uh first meeting of the year with some new members um we always review the school district mission and and um vision statements we go through our norms of collaboration we review the uh the overall curriculum review process the role of the dcac and then we um had a very brief um of course new course introduction that we will be hearing more about down the road but we have an advanced placement spanish language and culture of course that we'll be

117hearing about and then just to again kind of reiterate um the brand new building about deutsche which i had a chance to tour last week this is just an incredible uh building folks and and it just blew me away along with curtis i would advise everybody to turn up to the open house next week uh the spaces that the foss students have they now have a science lab um the spaces that adult uh learners have is incredible um the pre-k center that's at this building um you know this this building even has solar panels folks i mean it's just um we we did things the right way with this building as we continue to do in this district so if you want to see uh what has what has been done um show up next

118tuesday please thank you rose everything yeah i i will just uh mention that speaking of being a board member during colbert i got to visit for the first time park center school they had an ice cream social and so i went and it was just so nice to finally like see parents see the kids playing at the back and the weather was perfect and just got to interact with the community i just felt like i missed the whole year not being able to do that so i look forward to doing more of that and so that was a really great uh event for parents to come out kids to come out um just to be together uh it's a you know in ice cream so yeah it's great yeah who doesn't love ice cream right

119yeah it was great and you know for covert reason i heard that they used to serve it in tubs and this they just served with um individual choices so that makes sense yeah so thank you so that was really really a wonderful way to uh kind of get to know the school i i it's like i i was assigned to school but i've never been there so i finally did i finally did so yeah it's great thank you i have nothing else everybody said i'll just re-emphasize please if you can come to the opportunity grand opening please if you can come to the high school open house please ever get a chance look at the state of the district address online that jenny and her leadership team so excellently delivered last week that's it with

120that we'll move on to the superintendent's report this evening thank you i may repeat a few things that were shared already this evening now that we have moved into full in-person return to school i'm filled with gratitude for all that i see on a daily basis in our district my appreciation is centered around the joy of learning that our students are experiencing in and out of classrooms whether it's literacy lab outdoor physical education enrichment activities or homecoming traditions returning our students are experiencing the joy of school due to the support of our families and this tremendous work of our staff i'd like to thank our entire community i'd once again like to thank our community for voting to pass our school bond referendum in 2017. these money monies allowed us to improve our existing facilities

121and these improvements were felt across all sites in the district again i'm going to take this opportunity to reiterate as a way to showcase our new facilities to our community we are hosting two open houses in the coming weeks first i bet to techa located at the former fairview site which houses early childhood students to senior programming to everything in between including fairview alternative high school adult basic education aquatics programming and more this open house will be head held tuesday october 5th from 4 30 to 7 p.m with a ribbon cutting ceremony at 4 45. second roseville area high school will host an open house for their new d and e wings which include new science music and career and technical education spaces as well as a new performing arts center the ros open house

122will be monday october 11th with tours hosted at 5 5 30 and 6 pm as a reminder the school board unanimously unanimously voted this past june to bring an operating levy referendum to our community this coming november election i'd like to remind our public that legally levies are for learning or the need to continue the delivery of high quality educational programming for all students and bonds are for buildings past facilities improvements roseville area schools has not sought an increase in the operating levy for over 15 years if the community is interested in learning more about our operating levy referendum the district is hosting a zoom presentation with an opportunity for public questions on wednesday october 6th at 6 30 p.m via zoom the zoom meeting invite will be posted on our district webpage finally a

123special thank you to miss lindsey owen and roseville area middle school for hosting tonight's meeting i'd also like to give a special thank you to wayne powers and our video productions crew as well as tina claussen for leading this transition for the meeting at rams today so thank you finally superintendent of roseville area schools i continue to lead with an unwavering commitment to the district's vision of equity and all we do thank you thank you superintendent lake and with that oh curtis i i i have a fun word apparently something got missed um apparently east grand fork senior high i thought hall of fame as a new inductee dr jenny lake congratulations go green wave thank you very much with that having completed our agenda tonight we are adjourned thank you i know i'm not

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