April 27, 2021 School Board Meeting

001okay we're live thank you okay joe you can start it anytime good evening the april 27 2021 regular school board meeting of the roseville area schools isd 653 school board is here by call to order clerk johnson could you please take the role uh of course dr chu yeah director anderson here treasurer goggins director shaw here jeremy chesky here and clerk johnson's here thank you do we have any agenda adjustments this evening mr superintendent there aren't any agenda adjustments thank you uh we do have at least one announcement tonight and i will turn over the zoom to dr jenny lake who will who has an announcement for us good evening yes good evening everyone i am absolutely thrilled to introduce to you this evening the new director of student services in roseville area schools beginning

002july 1st her name is miss nycita thomas and she hails from st paul public schools and is currently an elementary building principal and has experience in leadership in student services special education in saint paul as well i'm really excited to welcome naisita and welcome her dynamic leadership and vision and with that i'll turn it over to good nicita everyone how are you good evening excited here excitement is one of my words i want to apologize ahead of time if you hear any little pitter patters in my background i'm in the quietest room in my house but my kids are a little louder um again i'm naisita thomas um the new director of student services um i'm really excited to have this position um it's it's one of my dream jobs i've been working hard on

003my path in leadership and education to get here and i just first of all want to thank roseville for giving me this opportunity um as dr lake said i i held from st paul i'm a um 20-year educator in saint paul with public saint paul public schools currently um where i'm the principal at um brock and michelle obama elementary until june 30th um a long line of started out as a special teacher coach supervisor um admin intern principal and so um i lead my life by what's best for children and that's how i became a special educator and what's best for children is that they're happy and that they're learning and so my vision on education is as long as our kids are happy and they're learning we're doing a good job and that wraps

004around making sure that they have all that they need to be happy and learning and that's where my roots lie deep in the equity of our children and that's equity of our black and brown children and equity of our children who receive specialized services and a lot of those children are our black and brown children and as a black woman myself um it just hits hard on my heart to see um the over identification of children that look like me in special education so it's my lifelong goal to to change that narrative while we know there are children out there that do need special education we want to make sure that the children that are in special education are supposed to be in special education and not just putting them there because we have um

005we don't know how to work with them in a system that was not built for them and so um that's what i i believe i've been doing my whole career and so i want to bring that with me to roseville my deep roots in training and equity and um just my love and passion for children and again i just thank you all for this opportunity i um i really have not stopped smiling until since i've gotten that call that um um offering me the position and so i um i feel blessed and i feel quite lucky to be a part of a community that um believes in what i believe in when i mention to folks that i'll be moving to roseville they are like wow and so that that just touches my heartstrings and

006i'm excited to be here and i can't wait to july 1st to get started i'm you know put my feet on the ground and i'm ready to rock and roll welcome thank you uh any any questions or comments from my fellow board members looks like uh oh curtis has something director johnson yes um just you know well welcome i think you're going to find a great home here and we're very glad to have you um and and uh thank you super and this is still weird okay um assistant superintendent like uh for for for this great hire um equity we we do look at everything through an equity lens and um i'm going to be very um i'm very excited to to see what you you think of what we're doing and things that we

007can do to make things better so so uh welcome embark thank you i appreciate that and i've seen some of the work that you're doing um and so that's why i'm so um i feel so blessed to be joined in this work welcome and thank you for being able to join us this evening and we're obviously very fortunate to have you with us so all right thank you congratulations thanks okay uh with that we'll move to community input there is no one here in the boardroom uh michelle did we get any community input letters to read this evening we have no community input great with that i'd entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda less gifts and retirements so moved second thank you uh any discussion hearing none curtis could you take the role

008for the vote no problem uh director 2 hi director anderson aye director shaw aye treasurer goggins aye chairport aye kirk johnson bow tie thank you uh we did have some retirements so clerk johnson could you please handle that for us this evening my uh it'd be my pleasure we have two retirements um today um victoria queenen um from parkview center school and melinda wade johnson from falcon heights uh elementary combined 24 years of service to um our wonderful district and uh it is with uh a it's a it's with a great [Music] um love and admiration that i um before these uh retirements second thank you thank you kitty seconded um [Music] for johnson take the the wrong vote please gerbil aye treasurer goggins aye director anderson aye director shaw hi director chu aye clerk

009johnson votes eye thank you so yes it's accepted with great appreciation as curtis said again as we always say just an example of dedication to our kids and our families and our community and all of our colleagues here so uh all the best of luck to ms queenen and way johnson as you begin uh your life away from your current roles thank you uh we also did have some more gifts so uh i think director anderson has agreed to share those tonight certainly thank you um we'd like to thank the following for their generous donations and their um gifts to our schools we'd like to thank viking demolition and specialty services a monetary gift to be used for the boys golf team for roseville area high school we want to thank peterson dental pa monetary

010gift to be used by the girls track team at the roseville area high school we want to thank roseville boys back court club uh monetary gift for some um season ending awards for roseville area high school and we'd like to thank kids in need foundation for some lysol disinfecting wipes um those will come in handy for the staff to use throughout roseville area schools we thank again our our generous and our wonderful community for their gifts this evening thank you for sharing those todd and yes thank you to all those out there for your continued generosity it just keeps coming and coming we really appreciate it all of us do uh well that can move into reports of non-action items and first up we will turn once again to assistant superintendent lake who will introduce

011some folks to us who are going to share the update on avid and certification this evening about the avid program jenny good evening again i think everyone knows that it's absolutely my honor to be able to introduce our avid presentation this evening as you know avid permeates all we do at the secondary level and impacts the learning experience of every single student and family in roseville area schools again currently at the secondary level and with that i'm i'm very honored to introduce our co-avid directors in this district tana bogenholm and ann barnes along with principal freer from fairview alternative high school principal chris hester and associate principal angie magaster woods from roseville area high school along with principal john cook and associate principal mr joe bu from roseville area middle school so i will turn

012it over to miss bogan home thank you tana i think you're muted yes i am it's wonderful to be here um thank you for having us it's great to be here every year um bringing the avid system to you and telling you how and what we've been doing throughout the school year a reminder that avid the mission statement is to close the opportunity gap by preparing all students for that college readiness and success in a global society and then to remember and a reminder for all of us is the purpose of the system really is to support those students and the educators as they increase school-wide and district learning and performance we're going to set the stage this evening and really talk about the frameworks we're going to talk about college and career readiness and

013what that is is really helping educators reframe the way that they see student potential we're going to talk about the four school-wide domains instruction systems leadership and culture and we want to make sure that that we'll take a look at student support as well as the alignment with the district strategic plan and then we're also going to talk about wicker which is the amazing instructional model that we use 7 through 12. so the avid system we have four domains and a strong avid system transforms all four of those domains they are not independent they are embedded and threaded and so that's what i want you to think about as we're moving through this um this evening i also want to remind you there are 7 200 students in the roseville system right now and half

014of those students are receiving avid school-wide half and so imagine if you had all receiving avid school-wide so i just want you to think about that lens as we move through this with instruction remember that it promotes all of those things that we work on the wicker strategies and wicker is writing inquiry organization collaboration and reading and that is that strong instructional framework that we use the 21st century skills goal setting and monitoring those goals rigor for all and then of course the student leadership and then a reminder with systems the systems are going to support all of those things the site and district teams professional learning secondary and avid elective classes and we'll talk specifically about those equity and access to rigorous courses and then of course the data collection and analysis and leadership

015that's going to ensure the strategic planning the modeling of expectations college readiness mission and vision the career readiness and then of course the distributed leadership approach we need to have all voices to know about avid and to utilize avid and then of course the culture the culture is going to foster that college awareness and preparation and that whole common belief in student success for all students family and community involvement high expectations again for all and that means all students and all educators and then of course the positive and safe environment so let's go back a little bit the history of avid so avid arrived in the school system in and that was through a gt and equity grant and we started with three classrooms a classroom at parkview a classroom at rams and a classroom

016at roz and since then look at the growth we've included fos we have included more sections rams ras and fawz became schools of distinction rams and roz became national demonstration schools and then now we are up to 15 sections which is really really exciting and of course the future holds a lot more so i talked a little bit about the avid elective a reminder that there is the avid elective and there's also school-wide so in the avid elective students will apply and interview and then they're selected this is all voluntary and so students once they apply and are selected to be in the avid elective they can choose every year to be a part of it or not and these are all the different criteria in the academic middle maybe they're the first in their

017family to attend and complete college they have that desire and determination to work hard maybe the race and ethnicity are underrepresented economically disadvantaged there are many many special circumstances and there's there's much more each student has their own story so as we take a look at the avid elective classes this is just an overview of what raz faz and rams looks like this year with 15 sections and we really do have representation from our community within these avid elective classes and we are up to 387 students the demographics this is 7th through 12th grade and just to show the representation that we have um we have students from the gifted ed program in el in special education and again the representation is strong our language breakdown we have 28 languages that are spoken 7th through

01812th grade in the avid electives and that's wonderful and we love these families and we learn their stories and we hear their voices and so it really adds depth um to our avid system so we're going to show you a little bit of our avid elective students and so we will show you what is called a jamboard if you're not familiar with it we had all of the avid elective teachers 7th through 12th grade add components of what they do in their classrooms so we'll start with seventh grade and here's bits and pieces so i'm just going to highlight one thing avid has taught me to be self-confident and not be shy in front of my classmates for example presenting in a breakout room with a tutor and speaking out a little more this is

019from the class of another 7th grade classroom the most important part of being an avid student is taking risks avid gives you a lot of volunteering and leadership opportunities and you'll also see that they're starting to learn about college they're starting to research college it's just the beginning stages of their dreams and their aspirations in eighth grade um they are digging even deeper they're really good at the avid tutorial process um they're they are meeting with their mentors weekly and they are just really enjoying school and again finding out who they are finding their voice miss barnes i'll let you take away all right so the avid freshman this year have really been digging into what strengths they are bringing to high school and how they can capitalize on those strengths and so they've looked

020at things like their personality type they've done some goal setting and created college roadmaps if you want to continue some of the other classes have also been working on um things like time management um doing avid family time that's been a huge piece especially as they have transitioned from height from middle school to high school is continuing that avid family and getting to know their new teachers at ross and then continuing to work on skills like focused note taking time management but really what you see come out strong especially in this ninth grade group is their need for community and the fact that they feel like avid is a family and then 10th grade they really have started thinking about how they get ready for 11th grade which is tends to be a rigorous year

021for them it's a real big focus on college and career starting to do some act prep thinking about your current self and how that translates into your future self and so they also we've had alumni come back and talk to them to kind of inspire them and talk about their paths and journeys um so really getting them starting to think about what might i want to do after high school and then the fawz also um is has a slide on this i'll have laura talk about what foss has been doing so applause we have one elective class that is a joint class for 10th 11th and 12th graders and this was one of the events that we did this year we didn't be mentoring and i can talk about that in a little while but

022um really what we're trying to get our students who are at the end of their high school career is to empower them as much as possible so that they can find their voice and change and make significant changes in our society and so one way that they're doing that this year is our e-mentoring program switched to virtual because of the pandemic and they were able really to connect with another adult to hear their career path and yet share what life is like as a high school student and at raw's we've been really lucky because miss oberstar one of our avid elective teachers at this level is a math teacher and she's been leading a math and science prep class for the a.c.t so students have been able to log on schoology through schoology and zoom

023and take this act math and science prep and she opened it up to the entire school so we have anybody who was interested in prepping both we had some seniors hop on earlier that took the act this spring and then many of our juniors across the school are hopping on to get this preparation for the act we partnered with the north suburban youth coalition for justice with 11th graders as well and they've been helping our students work on their resumes and get them ready for applications and also just get them job ready if they would like to go out and get um jobs in our community so we were partnering with that um that organization and it's been a really great experience for our students and our tutors have also been working with our students

024to help them refine their resumes and then as well obviously 11th grade is a time that they're really trying to focus in and narrow down their college choices and think about potential careers so they're starting to do some research on what's a reach school some good fit schools and then something that they feel is more a safe school so they're taking a look at where they might want to apply next year and what schools they want to put on their a.c.t to have their scores sent to and then of course our 12th graders this has been really hard for us because this is an amazing group of 12th graders and seniors across both fawz and roz and so we showed all of their involvement these are just leaders in our school community and obviously every

025year it's hard to see them go and move on but we're so excited for the places that they um have gotten into and the opportunities that they have and so as well there's just some quotes kind of throughout this of the things that they've gained they've been very reflective lately about what avid has has meant to them and they really are looking to have this be a community that they lean on as they head off to the next step and then that being said um our students uh have in a very tough year where a lot of this work has been done online because a lot of the scholarships were due and we were still in distance learning students have put it all out there put their applications in and as you can see they

026have received some amazing opportunities and scholarships from both our community local scholarships like the act 6 scholarship and national we have a dell scholar as well this year again and so um and this it doesn't even encompass what they're being offered from their schools that they're attending so we're really excited and we're very thankful for the community for all the support for our seniors and then it's a big week in avid a lot of them are making their decisions and committing this week but the one the students that have decided they let us put kind of a variety of some of the schools that they have decided to go to next year and so this is both fawz and ra's students and where they are headed all right so again we wish our students were

027here um but it is fun to see that and i know that the avid elective teachers had a lot of fun putting that together so we thank them um so we're going to take a look at the framework that um that i talked about at the beginning there's the instruction systems leadership and culture around the edges those are the strength um with the within this framework you're gonna see student agency and that's what you see in the um in the triangle and we want to remember that the educators are reframing how they see student potential and reframing how they create a learning ecosystem within with that existing talent existing everything resources and the systems that are that we may have to adjust to and maybe even change so within this framework what students need let's

028remember they're going to need rigorous academic preparedness they are going to need opportunity knowledge and we want to make sure that that student agency stays strong so we're going to talk a little bit about all of these as we move through this so we want to make sure that the students have those academic skills and they are completing those rigorous college and career preparatory um curriculum and experiences we also want to make sure with opportunity knowledge that students are researching and and getting to know what all of those opportunities are for them we want to make sure that they are setting those goals that we are monitoring those goals and that we are helping them follow through with those and also making choices that are are going to support them in the long term we

029want to make sure that they are also navigating lots and lots of different transitions and roz and fawz do such a beautiful job of doing that especially moving through 11th and 12th grade and on to college so we're going to take a look at the next level so we know that students need things but for them to get there we as educators are going to need to do the following we are going to have to insist on rigor we're going to have to break down those barriers we're going to have to align all of our work and we need to advocate for students and we will go into depth with each of these but we're going to show you how it's happening in roseville so we're going to take you on a little tour we're

030going to show how the educators are providing college and career readiness to all 7th through 12th grade area roseville area students so i'd like to introduce uh miss hester thanks tana um hi thank you for having us and insisting on rigor is something that is very important to us especially through avid but also school-wide which is why avid school-wide is really one of the things that helps us bridge those opportunity opportunities for students and making sure we're supporting them at rams we have advanced options and this is an opportunity for kids to really choose an option within an assignment that is rigorous for them it allows them to challenge themselves with higher critical level skills to prepare them for the rigorous courses that they will find at fawz and at ra's and so at ra's

031what we end up having we have concurrent courses and these are courses taught by teachers who actually have a master's in the area of study or a master's plus 18 credits in the area of study with partnerships such as saint paul college um mctc and hennepin tech and century college and then along with our ap advanced courses that we have at roz and i know there are there are some courses that fos as well access is really we encourage our kids to take at least one rigorous course and that's been the narrative for us for a while now just at least one every year as you go through raw's it is required for avid but it's it's definitely one of those things that i talk about with all of our students is to challenge themselves

032so they are able to enter into a college or career ready to do what they want to do and then also those college placement tests and just making sure kids are prepared um as anna shared that just some of the things that are going on that staff are doing to help our our students be prepared for those high level rigorous tests such as a c act sat and the psap and so this year at raz our current avid students really have a strong enrollment in ap classes in our 9th grade sections 30 of our 75 students are taking an ap course in 10th grade 18 out of 57 in 11th grade 54 out of 72 and in 12th grade 45 out of 56. some students that aren't taking an advanced placement um often will take

033a concurrent course and so that's our next slide and currently this year a lot of those are only offered 10th through 12th grade and i would say the majority of the students who are taking concurrent enrollment courses are in 11th or 12th grade but we have a total of 57 avid students taking a college level course this year and then it's really important to us that students feel like they have options for electives for career pathways to try out different things many of our students also like to take music classes or world language and so we've done some things to make sure students still have access to rigor and feel like they can take like a c-section of a rigorous course ap course and have room in their schedule and so two ways that we

034continue to do that are through the multilingual seal and so many of our students in may here will be taking the multilingual steel test if they are bilingual they take it in the language the other language that they um speak at either at home or just because they're bilingual that they speak on a regular basis and so they read write listen and speak in that and then they're able to earn college credits and often test out of a world language and that opens up room in their schedule as well as we also are continuing our partnership with equity alliance to offer summer health and phy ed classes for our avid students so that they can take care of those two requirements in the summer and open up additional credits in their schedules throughout the school

035year and then i'm tom tilbury the avid counselor at raz and myself went down to rams and we we worked with them for registration as well to help problem solve any issues students were having with getting rigorous courses or getting everything they wanted to in their schedule as well as you can see an example of a slide every grade level we tried to show them what are some examples or rigorous courses that you should maybe consider or think about taking in your schedule for next year one of the pieces that was mentioned was advanced options at rams and really allowing those students to dig deeper into those topics of interest or it could be a variety of things that teachers are doing some of the teachers are also calling them extensions so at this point

036classes of regular high school credit bearing are the intermediate algebra geometry spanish and french but more and more teachers are adding advanced options um to their to their plate and stu students really are giving them a try we did have a survey at one point and most of the eighth graders said i'm scared i don't want to try it it's going to be too hard or my sister said or my brother said and so this is their opportunity to give it a try and to not fail but just to see what it feels like to take more rigorous courses we want them to be prepared one of the other pieces is that anne and i in our plc have really really focused on monitoring that student process or progress of ap and ao students and

037that's been very fascinating and we've been offering after school hours goal setting with students and again just processing through it and it's been a little tough um with uh online but but they are doing it they're giving it a try so the next part is going to be breaking down barriers mr cook thank you tana uh i wish uh we would have had an avid program when i was in school uh i it it's a fantastic program and i know that i would have benefited and i would have needed and it was something that uh i would have been able to take advantage of uh i did not take an advanced course and one of the reasons i did not because i looked in and i saw the kids that were in that class they

038did not look like me and i i i think my mindset as a 15 year old was that those kids are better and they're smarter so i discouraged myself from taking those classes and so when when i said that to say when you look at uh the barriers there are a number of barriers that our students face um in terms of uh in terms of academic success and we work with our students to to support them some of those uh barriers are are academic where we we work to give students academic support some of those barriers are that we work to encourage and so some of our avid uh teachers take on the role of a of a mentor or almost as a life coach they work with our families uh to support our families

039and and give them extra support and whatever is needed um and uh they provide academic support to all of our students uh their tutors uh college tutors and students learn to collaborate and work together and support one another for uh in their courses that they're taking and um also this is a great program and that it it advocates for all students to remain and complete uh their ap courses uh courses are very tough and often times you you have students who run into difficulties and sometimes they may want to drop a course so not only do we encourage them to to tough it out but but uh it's a program that gives kids the support they need to continue to stay in the course and to be successful with um expecting students to try the

040rigorous courses we also encourage them to take care of technical courses and at ra's um in the last couple years 134 students have taken two or more cte courses through their high school career and at buzz 100 of our buzz advocates have taken cte courses the reason why we encourage them to take those cte courses is because it helps teach skills that they'll need for their careers teaching problem solving project completion research time management leadership and definitely communication in addition we've been able to maintain many of our strong partnerships we have um with the community they have tended to look a little different and you'll see a lot more of the word virtual um this year but we've been so um just impressed with our partners and their willingness to try new things with us

041and do things in a different way and so we've continued a lot of our work with best prep through the ementors and speakers medtronic provided us a stem panel of engineers where students could hear and see different people in different aspects of engineering we've done some things with junior achievement like a career fair and virtual expo we've continued to partner with the university of minnesota inspire conference and they also offered our students a mini medical school this fall as well and then the society of women engineers has become an extremely valued partner with us in encouraging our girls to pursue stem area careers and stem opportunities in addition we've had quite a few of our students participate in the youth voice service grant applications and they have been carrying out their grants in the community

042this year everything from art and mental health to podcasts to creating new councils to bring people together within our school and then affinity plus has continued to be a strong partner with us as well for our family financial readiness and and support for how to prepare for that financial step of heading off to post-secondary in addition our scholarship programs that we have worked with have continued to come in and they've worked one-on-one they've given us updates on if our students have turned in parts of their application which was extremely helpful in a year where we were trying to do these things online with them in addition we're just so lucky that with the paid education foundation scholarship that many of our students receive they go and give back a lot of those hours at rams

043and within our district and so that's been really fun to see our former students now mentoring our current students so it's important for us to hear from our families family input is used to guide our practices and our offerings we wanted to hear about what families wanted to learn about avid and skills really showed up extremely important to our families and what they learned in avid additionally we wanted to hear what our families wanted to to learn about what we could assist them in their homes um and having um conversations with or hosting um family nights and what you could see that showed up very well is preparing for college and career um with their students and i want to share the quote that's at the top of this slide she has had an amazing

044experience in abbott just the ability to learn how to take notes is worth its weight in gold keep up the great work my daughter is the is the number one in her senior class and a lot of her successes from abbott we absolutely love our abbott families and we want to continue to hear their feedback some of the highlights this year at paz with avid a lot of course like ann mentioned earlier it's going to be a lot of virtual um we asked what their highlights were and the one-on-one support that they received filling out college applications and doing their fafsa support in small groups instead of in a big event night was really great the our families were grateful for that and career investigation students spent a lot of time looking at options that

045they had after doing an e-mentor exchange with business people from bridgewater bank and each week they would email each other and learn about each other like i mentioned earlier um students were able to build communication skills both while using their voice and sharing what it's like to be a student in 2021 and um and really thinking about what kind of careers they are interested in like i said i mentioned one of the um from some of the feedback that we have received families really wanted to learn more about um being prepared for college and so one of the ways that we really wanted to do that this past year we've done it before but we had to do it differently this year that was through the virtual uh space and so we had a virtual

046roz family financial night that was very successful we had over a hundred families that joined us that night um and we had individual breakout rooms uh where um ap and concurrent classes pseo and northeast metro and summer opportunities were covered fafsa and financial aid help senior application questions and answer where we had some local college reps come in and assist our families and have conversations and we had students that were sitting there with real life experience as they were working through their college applications to talk to our families of our younger students and that was very helpful scholarship opportunities and then we have our own ongoing um relationship with infinity plus that talk to families about the the um financial pieces of preparing for college um at the next level and like i said we

047had such a great turnout that we're looking to increase the amount of um of these financial nights to offer it each trimester um because there was just tons of questions um and we held this in february so we're looking to get this out even earlier so that families can continue to um ask us questions and we can support them through the entire process and then another kind of gem of the pandemic that came out of all of this was virtual tutor office hours and we have just our tutors have been amazing this year at all of our sites and we've shifted schedules and we've shifted the days that they work and they have just rolled with it and keep showing up and are showing up so strong for our students and so they asked could

048we do an additional tutor office hour where during in earlier trimesters when we had the office hour at the end of the day they would be on and students could come and get extra help and support and now with our asynchronous day being on friday they get on on fridays and are willing to help students as they work through their asynchronous work as well at the end of trimester two as we were transitioning to hybrid it was a full asynchronous week pretty much except for the monday at the beginning of that week and tutors ran longer hours that week and we had 30 to 50 students come on each day and get extra help from them to finish up their assignments and turn in things that they still needed to turn in for their classes

049so that's something that we're hoping to take and put into play in a different way next year maybe to support students as they head home to meet siblings off the bus or other reasons why they can't stay after school trying to implement some kind of virtual tutor office hour to let our students continue to get help when they get home one of the pieces at rams is um again the um the avid tutors have been phenomenal um they've adjusted their schedules um like ann said to help with after school um at rams we have an actual avid boot camp on mondays and that's to help the students with their trfs and that's the questions their points of confusion that they're bringing to the tutorials on tuesdays and thursdays from their content courses and then there's

050the after school help and study time on tuesdays and thursdays um usually during office hours another thing is developing those student leaders through the avid leaders council um they meet on on fridays at three and they are they love to meet and they love to talk and they are so excited to become leaders and they're becoming pretty phenomenal leaders and they know they will continue that when they go to fa or ras and fawz and then also building school-wide college and career awareness and readiness we've changed our college wear day to tuesdays and wednesdays so both cohorts can enjoy seeing it and also asking about possibly the the colleges or universities or trade or tech schools that different people went to we also saw and see students with college sweatshirts or t-shirts that are probably

051from family members or may have been given as gifts and so it's always a great day on tuesdays and wednesdays now as far as aligning the work um laura sure so educators align their practices and beliefs for the preparation of all students um so that they can be um career in college readiness in everything that they do and avid is embedded in all of our students in our school improvement planning this is vital for students to receive a strategy that will launch them further post graduation and one of the best things that i can that my staff has taken away from avid is having the common language going from class to class you see um common language so students know what to expect and having that professional development supports teachers when they're doing this work

052so at buzz part of our school improvement plan this year we use all of our the use of wicker strategies in all classes goal setting is very important to all of our buzz students it's a requirement for alc to do goals every six weeks in avid we use those goals to help manage organizational strategies and really helping with our post-secondary planning this year we became a one-to-one ipad school as well and we use time to teach how to use schoology calendar and google keep for assignment and the management of that collaboration you can see that through student interviews and peer share notes on zoom and then the last thing that we my teachers have been working on in their collaborative teen time is question formulation which leads to that inquiry skills and that's one thing

053that we will be embedding next year at boz is a project-based learning model using increased and i'm very happy to say one more thing that four of our avid seniors have completed graduation requirements early and have gone on to their new adventures of college and career and so this is our logic model that we used and you can see where the stars are that's where our avid strategies are linked through wicker and writing to learn and then our goal setting as you can see as you can see with our um as you listen to each one of us avid is school-wide and school-wide means all of our students benefit from this and there are cohorted students that are getting that the tutorials but tutorials actually happen within other contexts of our of our buildings and

054so for uh for us at uh at rise we have been focusing on our digital organization focused note taking and collaborative study groups and it's kind of um ironic in the day and age that we are in currently with distance learning digital organization is like oh you have to be organized you have to know how you're going to get to schoology when you sit in a classroom and you hear a teacher say all right pull up your notability you need to download this and put it here i'm completely lost but they know exactly what they're doing which is the best part about this and then to watch them go into their small groups and we have breakout rooms and what's happening and teachers have really adjusted how what a collaborative study group looks like in

055person versus um in distance learning but now even being in blended where students at home are also in groups with students who are in the classroom with with our teachers and so we really have kind of hit those three pretty hard um this year excuse me as far as our focus with the staff it is a part of the professional focus to have something that they're going to work on that they're going to leverage as far as any of the instructional strategies from avid and when we do that we um with the size of our school we have about 140 licensed staff and we have paired that down to five cohorts and in those cohorts we actually work in uh those meetings on some of those avid strategies but we also do some professional development

056in that so it's always embedded for us this year we have we've met as cohorts twice a month uh while we're in distance and now that we're back in person for blended we're meeting once a month but this is our time to leverage to making sure teachers are getting what they need so students can also get what they need as they move through our system here you'll find the raw's logic model and also indicated by the red star you can find where avid is infused in our logic model and at ross we really have a big three and um and making sure that that is infused and it's blended so it's not seen as separate is very much a goal of ours and we obviously want to continue to use the avid cci data to

057inform our practices and we always want to bring that to the forefront so that we're making sure that we're holding true to what we have on this document and like i said avid is being infused in all that we do at ross so at rams uh the way we do avid school-wide is we have our focus areas and these are areas that we want to tell we tell parents that when your kids come through rams they're going to learn how to be organized they're going to know how to use a critical reading process which we you know middle school we hope they have already learned to read but we're going to teach them um how to read to learn right so how to take that information from the text and uh learn from it and

058then the last thing is we we tell parents that all your students are going to know how to take notes so we talk about the focus note-taking process so that's how we do it school-wide with us uh the wicker strategies uh you know our students come in and they have no background 50 percent of our students are new to us every year when our seventh graders come in you know they're all they have they've never seen avid and we have to teach them all the wicker strategies and one of the ways we do that you can see here is we divide it up by departments so in math they're going to talk about collaborative study groups in that first trimester social studies they're going to talk about scratch seminars philosophical chairs and then you can

059see the rest of the list so that by the end of the first try they've seen these strategies and we can start using them in all of our content areas so we started doing a couple years ago and it's been a great way for us as opposed to like every social like social studies teaches um one area and then math's got to try to like now math can um leverage what social studies teachers are doing if that makes sense so um so yeah that's how we we do it at school-wide at rams the next slide is our logic model so you can see again the red stars they're getting logic models built on our skip our school improvement plan and obviously avid is infused in that in many different areas so so as you've heard

060professional development has been very important to all of our schools and here are some examples of sessions or workshops that our staff have attended we are really appreciative that avid has opened up more opportunities for all staff to receive pd this year from their home during the pandemic and our staff has taken taken a lot of the opportunities given to them and enrolled in more sections for courses than in any year past so um normally raw's and rams do avid showcases as part of being national demonstration sites but this year um with us being in distance learning and not having people come into the buildings we um offered to do what what avid is calling a solution snapshot and we were kind of an early adopter of virtual tutorials last spring we got it up

061and running when a lot of other sites had kind of put their tutorial process on pause and so this fall we had the opportunity in october to teach other sites within the central division how like give them a little advice of how we had done virtual tutorials and let them ask questions of how we had implemented this the really great part of this opportunity is that our tutors really took the lead in this discussion and helped share with other tutors and other sites how they worked with us and the teachers and the students in order to make this a more successful situation online by using things like digital tools like the whiteboard feature in zoom and by using the chat if students weren't able to unmute so it was a really great opportunity for us

062to share what we were doing at our sites and help other sites get virtual tutorials up and running and now now our presentation is featured on the avid site another um piece that anne and i put together this year were one pagers for all the seventh through twelfth grade staff we realized with the change with distance learning that it really was difficult to um you know meet and reach each of the of the teachers so on these wicker wows we called them they came out each week and they were resources classroom ready examples um everything that they needed so if as you take a look at the one on the left interactive notebooks anything that they would press there it would take them to some examples it would take them to some research it would

063take them to a variety of places that would help them as a teacher also we also had a few contests and so if people wanted to share how they were using interactive notebooks um there were some little prizes for them so for those that that um wanted to partake it was a lot of fun also building community we are continuing to evolve in this in this area um you know we have our monthly newsletters um articles uh parent newsletters we have family nights service voluntary opportunities which were very very difficult to do this year virtually we're used to going to you know all the elementary schools and supporting them with their events and also big events in the community which is which stands for weeks at a glance that is the curriculum that avid uses

064and it is scaffolded avid has a curriculum k-12 our curriculum for seventh through twelfth grade if you take a look at what the seventh graders are doing now you will see that just grow and grow and grow and the students will by 12th grade year they're taking everything that they have learned and they are applying it and it also scaffolds back so that we are preparing them to be more independent as they move on to college and then of course the district website um which we will continue to add to we want our community to be able to take a look at that as well and so um angie if you would talk a little bit about advocating for students absolutely with what we've heard tonight it's obviously that we can conclude that our average

065students are very strong leaders so as adults working alongside of our students we have to show up very strong for them um and not only tearing down barriers achieving equity and access but assisting them with finding their voice and not only finding their voice but amplifying their voice so hopefully in the next few slides here you'll see how we show up for our students so i think this is everyone's secret is being an avid mentor think about this 387 students every single one of them has an adult mentor and they are you know staffed throughout the building and it's not just teachers it's administration it's office staff it's paraprofessionals and these are very very very special relationships as you can see these are relationships that are lifelong for those that have had avid mentors you

066stay connected with them you make sure that they are reaching their goals you are supporting them socially and emotionally you get to know their families it's a very exciting part of what we do in avid and we welcome um the school board also if you would ever want to partner in and have an avid mentor just um talk with with any of us that are that are here tonight and then one thing that we implemented this year at rams and ra's are avid leadership councils and so really tana talked a little bit about what the rams added leaders are doing as they meet weekly plan avid family events really encouraging them to become leaders and plan school-wide events for next fall and work with junior achievement at roz we've had a really some cool partnerships

067for our students to offer student input and feedback within our district and within our community so they've given feedback to the department of teaching and learning here in roseville during their curriculum review cycles we engaged in a conversation with principal hester about how distance learning was going and what improvements they felt could happen and then we've also been partnering with state senator chuck weger's office to give student feedback on issues affecting communities and teens they really are starting to plan events they started doing student listening sessions and healing sessions um this past few weeks as all of the things have unfolded in our community and they really just are excited to give feedback about how we can make avid um a great experience for everybody and then in addition students have found other ways to

068give their voice we hired a new avid elective teacher and asked them for feedback as we were interviewing and thinking about who to choose they gave us feedback on what to look for in a candidate they've given us feedback on the story circles and community wellness conversations what they feel needs to happen within our school community as well as we've had seven grades seven through twelfth representatives on things like the district curriculum advisory committee the superintendent search committee the district calendar committee and sitting in on interviews such as the avid elective teacher interview committee dr lake would you like to to talk a little bit about this slide yeah i just say a few we have to catch our breath i think our building leaders our students our teachers sure make it easy to be

069champions of avid i think about all the rationale and evidence there is with this program closing race-based opportunity gaps it's proven beyond effective um i'm looking at this slide and i have a different copy in front of me but really it's around future possibilities for avid so there certainly hasn't been any plan put in place other than we plan next year to fully investigate and explore an opportunity to expand avid into our elementary sites and possibly even include the avid excel for seventh and eighth grade el students at rams and also it's possibly expanding more avid elective sections and of course this would include exploring future alternative funding sources for the district in terms of this program but again i'm a wholehearted believer and look forward to future partnerships not only with everyone on this

070screen but also our elementary leaders both principals teachers students and families as well so thank you for having us tonight and we are open for questions thank you dr lake um so i'll turn it over to my fellow board members in a second but i just i just want to say first wow um you know i've come to look forward to the the annual updates on avid and where it's all headed as much if not more than anything else i mean avid has been become such a part of the cellular structure of our district and to see how you all have taken it and helped it evolve uh and and keep it becoming fr you know refreshedly transformative uh and and not just even with that habit itself keeping it where it isn't wanting to

071take it to the next journey it's just very exciting and practicing to me and i thank you for the thorough and comprehensive report you've shared with us tonight so with that i'll open it up to questions or thoughts from my fellow board members jump in kitty i found the presentation really fascinating and so much wonderful information was included that's gotta have been a lot of work to pull together and appreciate the thorough presentation um i was wondering if you comment a little bit on how able were you able to keep students engaged this year did we have any students who had to drop out of the program or weren't as participatory and then the second question i had was i know you mentioned about virtual tutors and wanting to continue that next year but i

072was wondering if there's anything else that you learned this year that you'll carry forward with you yeah i can speak especially to some of the virtual tutoring and things we just found that it was such a great way to connect with students and our tutors um were able to make kind of some special relationships where one of our tutors was even watching the mars rover coverage with one of our students after they had talked stem together so we just saw that as a really great opportunity to carry that forward and think of like how we could do some of these things virtually and like angie said with our virtual family financial night we found it was probably easier for some of our families to attend virtually and not have to worry about child care so

073that's something we're planning on keeping virtual moving forward as well um speaking to the question about students engaging our avid teachers i need to tip my hat to them this year they have absolutely spent hours upon hours on the phone on zooms answering texts we've had to totally shift and be very accessible to our students and our families and i think oftentimes like when i would be running the tudor office hour an avid teacher would be calling a student saying get on like you need to get this assignment done and and you can use the help on it and so they would be even guiding the student to get on to the office hour and connect in the student with the tutor so i really we um we lost a few students to moving out

074of the district but none of our students um really were were leaving for reasons a lot of times it was like a scheduling thing or something where they were graduating early i had one graduate early so it was a rare exception that we had a student saying like this isn't a good fit for me i think many of our students grabbed on to avid as a highlight and a sense of community during this thank time does anybody else want to add to that or you would have a question yeah i just wanted to say you know as you said um sherry borgeszewski wonderful presentation thanks everybody for your continued hard work um you know this avid program it just keeps getting better and better um and and i applaud the idea of ways that we

075can expand it and i know we've been talking about i think expanding into the elementary sites for a while now i think that's a great idea one of the things i just i just had a question of i know that um i think it's in middle school um that we kind of start with the wicker strategies is there is there a chance that we can start that in sixth grade or in fifth grade or just start with that transition exploring some of those strategies to help with that transition so avid elementary they don't have elective classes it is a school-wide approach and so if avid elementary started you would start with just sixth grade and you would start with that school-wide piece and it would be writing and that would be a focus and it

076just starts out very gradual kind of like what we did originally we started with just maybe focus notes and we worked on that for a year um and then you know now we can use utilize a variety of things so yes um but we would need to start slow but we can start some of the training that's a possibility um but it you know it is out there it's a possibility and it's also in the future great i'll speak for all seventh grade teachers and i will say they would much appreciate any help we could get for the students coming into seventh grade uh not we're just helping them we're just trying to help navigate the building but also trying to teach them those skills so any help we can get would be appreciate and

077and there there is the caveat of um we can't utilize a lot of avid's uh uh pieces because of licensing and so if a school is not licensed we can't use the materials uh curtis you had your hand up oh yeah well okay um this is this is uh as you mentioned my favorite uh time of year avid night you guys are amazing um i i will try to limit my questions i i do have a question about um i guess this is going to be for um our rams folks um this year we started um our dual immersion so i guess my question is do we have any dual immersion students in avid and have there been any challenges with that because you know we're doing dual you know we're starting dual immersion for

078the first time in the secondary and yeah so anyone who wants that one yeah i i can speak to that um both for seventh and eighth grade um i we i think i believe we have six uh dli students in seventh grade and it's just been the scheduling so they may miss out on a few electives because they're in avid and dli and then also moving to the high school that transition of those students same piece is just taking a look at the scheduling but other other than that um you're just working together with the dli teachers and the avid teachers okay great well i i'm glad that that's working working great i i really thought it would but um so i i guess um the only thing i would add is that um you

079know when it comes to alternative uh funding uh that uh dr lake had mentioned um you know truly i i i love the um the they have a district-wide and it definitely has um anecdotally okay um has has paid dividends um i i definitely you know um look forward to the day where um literally anybody who who wants to participate in the elective avid um can participate in the elective avid and right now i can't that's not the case because money young which is always the thing but um i'm just uh you know yeah i i at this point i i par pardon me should not be so you know surprised with you know all the stuff that you guys are doing every year you come in you show me you know something new and

080incredible and um i am i'm an incredible fan of the avid program and uh thank you for all the work that you guys have done to continuing to make it um uh bigger and better um and be a model for you know other other schools in other districts so thank you i also want to say as much as we would love to have hundreds of avid elective classes we are school-wide and that's where the avid elective got you know they're that catalyst but everyone does get all the skills and strategies and i i believe and i think um everyone can speak to this at ra's foz and rams is teachers have become so they are experts um utilizing the avid skills and strategies and we see that um school-wide with students well okay so so

081the only thing okay and i and i completely agree with that okay so the the the the only thing that i would add to that is that the um the students that are part of the elective okay um you know they're getting that actually you know they are getting the ability to to have people additionally work with them right and show them the possibilities of you know what can happen after um after after after school you know and you know having those at having those avid mentors is a is a big thing having someone having an additional person to make sure you you turn your homework in um to hey there's this you know we need if you really need you to to to look into taking the act even if you hadn't thought about

082going um about taking uh going going to college you know um i know from you know for myself um you when i was in school my you know i had a very powerful influence pushing me to go to college okay and and and not you know unfortunately that was in inside my family not everyone has that and not everyone uh um not everyone who uh when it comes to families who want their kids to go to college or um be career ready know how to do it right and so those you know those those kids who are in those electives who have chosen and who were accepted for that elective are getting that opportunity and so that's really all i'm referring to is that for um you know right now we have a a a

083segment and i i would not know how many people are not uh able to go into uh the avid elective but you know i guess that's the thing that um i would you know i one day i really would love for uh to be able to say categorically there is nobody that does anybody who wants to participate in that elective can participate in an elective um because you guys are awesome all right and so i i think i just want everyone to be able to have access to that awesomeness so thank you any other questions or comments rose or frank we good rose good hi hi everyone thank you so much for the presentation um i was just like smiling non-stop the whole time so thank you um i echo what my fellow board members

084have said um the question i i have a wondering is about the alumni the students who have graduated how are we like staying in touch with them i mean do we how many do we have already just curious about that we'd love to hear more about that so i think we figured out when we were working with the scholarship committee and talking about like how long um we've had avid seniors i think we're on our 10th year of having a graduating class in avid and so that's really been exciting and i think most of us um like i know mr bu has been on here is bogan home those of us that have had avid classes we stay in pretty close contact or can find somebody that can reach the students in our classes and

085so for the most part we have a pretty good feel for what they're still doing we also have an avid alumni facebook page that we've encouraged all of our alumni to be a part of and so when cool opportunities come about we post them on there and that's also the way that we got some of our alumni to come back for the panel as we posted it out and then they reached out and talked to the teachers and said hey i'd be willing to come for that panel and so at least once a year we're bringing in alumni into our classes to just let them share their inspiring stories where they're at like what they learned what they've carried with them so we really try to connect and stay connected to our avid alumni and

086make sure that they still feel supported even while they're in college and many reach back and ask us for letters of wreck or references or things as they move forward and continue on their path so i'd also like to add we have two avid alumni who are teachers in our district now i mean they sat in our classrooms and three that's right three now and we have three more that are going to be graduating soon and they want to be back in this district and they're phenomenal um young people so um i think that's really exciting and then ann do you want to talk a little bit about your the class you're teaching right now and how that yeah and with intro to urban ed and the education pathway we've um various years offered the

087tutoring class or offered other opportunities around that and so actually a lot of our current tutors right now are our alumni or people that have been through that class and so we try to really stay connected with them and continue to try to bring them back to our district to serve like in any role that they would aspire to so um a lot of them have gone the route of para professional have gone the route of avid tutor and then have completed their education degrees and have tried and as we said in it two of our former avid tutors are also teachers within the district as well so it's been a nice connection for us to bring back our students that's great thank you you kind of answered the next question i had about the

088teaching pathway so it's a great kind of uh uh kind of like a natural grow your own right in terms of those who want to come back and and and give back to roosevelt so thank you for all your work yeah very very much appreciated thank you frank anything we good all right thumbs up from director shaw uh well once again i'll just say thank you for this presentation i know that um a lot of time and a lot of effort goes into these things and you wonder oh my gosh does the board really care we do i think this has been something we've all been interested in and pr pass boards before i ever got on it and future boards will always be interested in this and i think um dr johnson's questions i

089think are are ones you're going to continue to hear just pushing and pushing and pushing for expanding and making things school-wide and all student-wide you know as a district we we have an intentional push to also nurture and care for kids who for right reasons don't necessarily want to go to college and so obviously wicker and other aspects of avid can benefit them too as it grows and becomes school-wide this is the program classically may have started out for you know kids who didn't think they could go to college and then suddenly realize they can to i think we all think kids who achieve something that they didn't think they could whether whatever that might be and self-realization and self-discovery that magical moment when you suddenly realize you've done something that maybe yesterday you didn't

090really think you had in you whatever your future holds so i think that's where this board at least will probably continue to push director johnson articulated very well to expand some of these concepts to everyone so great job keep going and seriously really appreciate this and thank you for all the time and effort you put into this report in this presentation and obviously if you didn't practice you look like you practiced who would say what and in what order so really nice job really good job thank you all very much for for staying this evening with us and look forward to more great things to come thank you thank you thank you thank you guys uh with that we will move into our next report which is the uh first reading of policy 544 in

091hazing and assistant superintendent like it looks like you will be introducing this to us yes let the excitement continue from avid to hazing some small language revisions when i compared our policy to msba but i did not pull out anything significant so certainly up open to all of your suggestions i'll just run through the revisions as they uh as i have recommended them section 4.0 reporting procedures uh just a gender reference to they removing he or she and please interrupt me as i proceed if you have additional comments section 4.3 striking the first sentence adding the singular a and then adding report taker versus singular principle on the last sentence section 4.4 the elimination of the word or section 5.0 school district action 5.3 and versus the in the first sentence further down the removal

092of the word severe so sufficient to deter violations section 6.0 reply reprisal simple elimination in the last sentence of the word or and that is it thank you any thoughts questions comments jenny i just had a quick question going back to 4.5 and 4.6 it looks like those those were actually completely newly added sections is that right is that what msba is recommending i didn't catch that michelle we added those and i didn't highlight them for 2.5 and 4.6 yeah it's all it looks like it's completely new newly added so i was just wondering if that was what msba was recommending yes thank you i apologize for the old mission yeah or the uh omission of the audition oh yeah there we go thanks jenny and curtis you had a question i did have a

093question um regarding um 4.3 um we shall inform the building report taker um i'm not exactly sure what that means um the the the person who takes the report um it's it's it's the freezing is a little odd for me um i could align the language to uh 4.2 well yeah because because that's it well okay well because that's where it gets a little weird for me because you because in 4.2 you say the uh the building principal or the principal's destiny or the building supervisor is the person responsible for receiving the reports like okay then 4.3 we get into a teacher administrator volunteer contractor or other school employee of the school district shelby particularly alert which is fine that uh um a such person who receives a report or observes which makes me think

094that any of these people can receive the report which i would think a teacher could receive a report of hazing so i i it's i it's a little ambiguous for me so i can clean that up certainly okay can i expand a little bit on what curtis had because that was a little ambiguous for me as well and i was wondering if in 4.2 you just want to say and shall be referred to in this policy as the building report taker because you use that as if that's a term or position and so defining at the end of 4.2 that that's that term would clarify that as well thank you well and to continue that so in 4.2 the intent is not is the intent to mean that the building principle or the principles of

095zignee or the building supervisor on any given day could be the person responsible for receiving reports or is the intent to specifically assign the responsibility of receiving reports to one of those titles i think both because i hear you say that anyway so you get the the sense of ambiguity so michelle and i will wordsmith that and and send it out because my own fear is if if if more than one or certainly more than two or three people are named as accountable then really no one's accountable it's my own feeling and organizational behavior which not everyone may share but so i concur with kitty and curtis in there any other questions or comments for jenny frank so just it's still on the subject of the 4.3 you have you have oh let me i'm

096trying to bring up my uh bring up my packet here um so you you've added um to make reasonable efforts to address and resolve hazing result adhesing so does that mean to stop it that's how i interpret that yes maybe maybe you could say that because it seems like uh reasonable efforts to address and resolve is wow i mean i'm just not sure what what that is uh but do you see what i mean it just it seems kind of vague and yet it puts it puts a particular responsibility on the reporter that is that an action has been taken before the report has been made and then that the report is made after the action is taken and and uh do you see what i mean even even if the action resolves it the

097report still has to be made you know just just asking what would really if if that's if that's if that's the intent that it be stopped then then maybe it's worth saying that or make a reasonable effort to stop it and then report it in handball yeah and it's and it's not um it's not conditional on stopping it to report it and it's not you know whether it's stopped or not you still have to report because that's that's that's a that's a bigger responsibility than the reporting other questions thoughts looks like that might be it jenny thank you thank you thank you and next up i think is still you again policy 708. sorry i'm sorry sherry thompson sorry yeah i'm going to jump in on that one um so policy 708 again it's part

098of the administrative review uh it was last revised in august of 2015. i'm gonna go to page two of the policy as far as changes um any changes are under 3.3.0 uh we did in the past employ um a coordinator uh we had a designated coordinator we've always had in recent years we've always had a district-wide team but we had a coordinator and um we're no longer uh employing the coordinator actually superintendent lake and i are have been heading up assistant superintendent like in this in this case heading up the district-wide uh team as far as the plan goes and then each of our buildings as a representative um on that committee and each of the buildings has a crisis response plan thank you sherry any questions or comments looks like we're good on this

099one as is sherry thank you very much thank you and then we'll stick with you as we move into the next item the monthly financial update okay so i was not going to do a presentation but um you're stuck with me now just to kind of organize my thoughts and i'm hoping once i get into a lot of these screens i sometimes cannot see what is projecting so please let me know are you seeing my are you seeing a powerpoint just i just uh yes yep perfect um so um just kind of as far as a financial update uh of course you know we're still because this is a unique year uh with a pandemic typically we come to you you approve the preliminary budget in june prior to the school year starting and then

100you approve a mid-year budget in january well again because of such activities this year uh we did have a loss of uh 240 students from what we had projected um uh kind of or i should say pupil units uh it was approximately three percent uh so we came in under under enrolled and that resulted in a decrease of about 2.3 million dollars we discussed this at the mid-year budget um uh revision time um with the ongoing pandemic uh as you are aware it's resulted in added expenses in many areas including child care uh technology uh personal protective equipment additional cleaning equipment cleaning supplies we've had additional staffing and substitute costs many of these added costs are startup costs getting kids back in school have been offset by federal cares dollars which are one-time funds and

101the reason that i'm bringing that up is you've been aware of that but we want to update you as to where we're at um because things have shifted from when you uh took action on the revised budget in january so we're gonna be bringing you an update um to reflect uh some of those additional cares dollars and expenses uh we will be bringing that to you at um your meeting on may 11th so you'll have an additional budget revision for the current year so that takes care of the current year unless there are any questions so then kind of touching on the next year on the upcoming year and this is just a reminder these are the parameters that were um uh updated in or adopted rather in january we continue to monitor our enrollment

102as we do every year we um we did make an estimate as of february but we'll continue to watch that again because the ongoing pandemic and we'll use the most current information when we bring you the preliminary budget for adoption in uh in june uh we do have the budget hearing in may so you'll get to see it um obviously before we get to um june we are right now we have built in as far as our parameters one percent increase in the per pupil formula allowance from the state as you're all likely aware um uh we have um the house that's currently at a two percent increase in the senate that uh has a zero percent increase so we're kind of in the middle um and hopefully uh i believe they're supposed to adjourn

103by i believe it's may 17th so again we'll keep you posted on where we're at as far as the legislature um we're projecting right now no increase in the statewide appropriation for special education again that's a decision that will be made by the legislature uh the levy as far as the opera the overall um levy will be calculated based on what you approved last december uh and then any receipt or expense any changes in cares funds will come through the business office and the administration and obviously we will share that with the board depending on where we're we're at uh as far as the legislature and other items we may have um uh be recommending uh use of part of the fund balance uh to partially offset any operating deficits that we do have for

104next year so that's on the revenue side uh the expenses as always we will continue to focus our resources on equity and student achievement uh staffing adjustments will be made according to enrollment changes and align with our class size ranges for all sites those class size ranges um are at the same target levels as they are for the cur were for the current year we do build in estimated salary settlements into our projected budget uh as we do also for insurance premiums dental ltd life all of our benefits and we always monitor staff retirements we project what those will be and we adjust accordingly and again these are assumptions they're general guidelines and they're based on our best estimates so just an update or just kind of a review of what those parameters were so

105the big thing of course is continuing to monitor our enrollment uh as all of um you may recall we had projected uh we took our enrollment from um february 1st and then we projected that we would that we would recoup 60 of the enrollment that we lost from last spring uh to when the school year started this year so and right now um and again you know looking at that uh right now we're just about 139 students down which is actually very positive yeah because we're early um you know we're still fairly early we get a lot of movement in the summer months um you know we're still in april so i think we're very positive that we will um recoup or enroll a lot of get a lot of the students back again we

106approach it conservatively at but we um i feel very confident at this point that we're going to hit those targets and we will come keep you updated um and that is a big driver of course um in our um in our budget projections and then the other thing as i mentioned is awaiting the outcome of the legislative session uh and then of course the uh other big item as far as what is next is uh the district's operating referendum the operating levy expires june 30th of 2022 so the next fiscal year will be the last fiscal year uh so we will need to go in order to continue that we um would need to go to uh our local taxpayers in november of 2021 this upcoming fall for renewal or any potential increase in order

107to continue that and i will leave it at that stand for questions thank you sherry anyone have a question or comment i can't see everyone so yeah just just comment yeah and share it as always just thank you for how concise you have put this together to kind of remind us where we were where we are going and uh just some updates so really appreciate your work to keep us posted and keep us updated yeah really really appreciate it aldo unmute here i'm thinking regarding that last slide of course the board has been talking about the uh operating referendum for some time and knows that uh wants to avoid expiration of the current levy and there's been much talk about an increase needed so it would seem to make sense to bring is the board

108is going to be deciding questions and amounts in the next a few months here it seems that it would make sense to bring to the next meeting some possibilities for the board to consider yeah sure kitty that's actually i was going to request is if you could bring some options to the board for our next meeting in terms of recommendations for how you would believe we should proceed for next fall i think that would be very appreciative and a good timing at this point we can certainly put that together we can look at current level funding additional funding based on um some of our past budget trend data and what we're anticipating in the future to give you further information yeah i i do think though i know some of that some of those um

109recommendations will depend on some of the deadlines that like the legislature right i mean that's not ending till it is a 17 so i know that some of your your scenarios or recommendations will based on you know kind of where it is trending hopefully by then but then will maybe have some some ideas any other thoughts sherry thank you very much and look forward to hearing about some options next time thank you all right thank you thank you yeah thank you uh with that we will move to our only action item tonight so michelle has put together the proposed calendar uh for our meetings for the next school year so uh i don't know if anyone's had a chance yet or did take the opportunity before the meeting to looking these oversee for any conflicts

110if not then i would just entertain a motion to approve the calendar as presented so i moved thank you second thank you any discussions on this uh we did add michelle asking if she i wanted her to talk about it we could just point out that we did add a july 27th meeting a summer meeting to have on there as maybe needed to help with any decisions around the referendum or other things that are going on at that point in time so all right with the discussions curtis could you please take the roll call on the calendar vote of course director shaw aye treasurer goggins aye director anderson aye director chill aye chair brokerski aye clerk johnson votes eye thank you looks like we'll be doing it again for another year uh with that we

111have the study session report generously provided for us this evening by director shah frank thank you very much all right well thank me after i finished it okay okay the april 13th study session was unusually a rich one with three lengthy and important reports each followed by detailed discussion first regarding the proposed upcoming uh operating referendum that we've just been talking about we heard from peter leatherman ceo of the morris leatherman company who had conducted an extensive survey of many diverse stakeholders we learned that though our constituents remain in the majority strong supporters they're less sure of their opinions regarding the strengths and requirements of our public schools this uncertainty perhaps lack of resolve is uh probably due to all of the uncertainty surrounding the pandemic we concluded that we have to our work cut

112out for us to keep the communication lines open and that our constituents are good listeners and are inclined to support this crucial funding stream even in the face of personal financial sacrifice we are lucky to have an electric that responds so positively to a survey like this second was a detailed report uh from jake vondelinda melissa sonic and maureen foreman on the progress made over the past year in curriculum program review though this whole process was brought to a screeching halt in the spring of 2020 a great deal of work has since taken place this began in the summer necessarily with a difficult task of developing and reviewing curricula for the three learning models as required by the state in person distance and blended those launched successfully in the fall though uh though our tentative

113steps toward in-person learning had to be scaled back in november the pandemic also forced a delay of new science and language arts standards otherwise through virtual group meetings up until march this past march and since then limited in-person meetings the work of curriculum review and development has carried forward we heard about progress in k-12 health music and phi ed about the inclusion of absent narratives in the k-6 social studies in fact inclusive narratives is a theme that has animated review in all of the disciplines in science the sixth and eighth grade concentrations will be switched earth science moving to the sixth grade and physical science moving to the eighth triggering curriculum adjustments for different ages of students and in elementary math there are innovations being studied that address mathematical cognition on the student by student

114basis at the middle school level the math will have two courses rather than three which should cause problems in placement i'll stop there we could easily have devoted the entire study session to this topic and my report could easily go on for half an hour detailing the information that we received third we heard from christina robertson el program administrator english learner program administrator as well as sarah holty angela frohming kelly grillis sorry kr gruchelski um and kelsey turnbull all el teachers about the district's el program we heard in particular on the resiliency of the students in the face of needing to stay home in the pandemic the silver linings in this case were increased attendance of el programming as well as the integration of the whole f of whole families into the work and fun

115of mastering the english language in an academic context the work was no less challenging to the teachers more of them many of them thrown into the distance context and yet the program thrived in particular we heard about progress in elm english learners in the mainstream a program that our teachers have been working with were working on with hamlin university and that was able to convert positively to a distance format well that was necessary lastly we discussed the process of superintendent evaluation and director chu at last said what we were all thinking why are we doing this dr sekoli a distinguished and completely remarkable superintendent will be transitioning into a richly deserved retirement in july that leaves us only to consider his many achievements in roseville beginning with those of an avid that small a avid

116middle school student in the 1960s and ending with the progress our district has made over the past six years under his astute and compassionate leadership which i expect will be celebrating loudly and long thank you aldo sikoli you're here that's it thank you frank i had an excellent update i would like to move that frank be the note taker for the rest of this tournament second okay uh clerk johnson will you please take the role i'll sorry i'll save i'll i'll save frank we didn't have that on the agenda as an action item so we can't actually vote on that but maybe not there you go yeah frank very kind of you but i do want to correct something because i'm not quite as old as you implied my um junior years in the district

117were in the early 70s i i figured it's probably the early 70s but um i you know my middle school years were in the 60s and so you know middle school was the 60s [Laughter] thank you with that we'll move to board reports anyone want to start out with uh sharing anything this evening scanning the faces all right frank now since since i've vocally warmed up i will i will say a couple of things uh i attended uh as part of the 916 board a training in um in restorative justice um uh which they're working on in at 9 right now i think what they were talking about is what we've already been doing at roseville uh and it's encouraging to see the implementation there and the training uh that the board is going through

118uh the other thing i wanted to mention is that i happened uh to be in uh central park elementary school last week and walked up the hall and the school is just humming and it's just wonderful to see how the students are are taking their education seriously but also are appreciating it and this is something i mean this was true last year when i when i spent a lot of time at central park too but there was always there was there was quite a bit more noise a little bit more chaos back then that that is is is absent it seems and uh everyone is is really taking taking the the um uh their education seriously it's it's quite clear as you look into classrooms and see the way the students are just moving around

119the classes uh how how well it's working and so i just wanted to complement central park i'm sure that this sort of thing is going on all across the district and it's just exciting to see the in-person learning going forward thank you frank anyone else curtis all right um so excuse me um my favorite topic um social studies standards committee um has been meeting um literally in subgroups um two to three times a week um so that come june will be able to provide a second draft for everyone's approval and just want to take my hat off to um a lot of very hard working people trying to to get this done and get it right um so and so i will also as i do every time implore everybody when we do um submit

120it please go through it um and let us know what you like what you don't like um because we can't provide you know the best thing for our students if people hold back so you know let us know um the other thing um is that um i got to i had the the opportunity um uh to to watch um i was over at roseville area high school and was able to watch um uh roseville high school students um march over to the um uh the city hall um it's not um i did not join them but um supported what they were doing and it was great to see learning happening inside school yeah as well as outside the school so um and i my my hats off to um the um the folks at roseville

121high school that kept everybody safe so that's that's it thank you chris todd thank you um yeah i had a couple of meetings to attend last week it started out with the district curriculum advisory committee and thanks director johnson for mentioning um the student walkout because the first part of our dcac meeting was it was it was a space a good discussion we had about the student walkout you know protesting uh racial injustice of the grid great way to notify the dcac about how it went um and everyone was pretty proud of the fact that students were exercising their you know their first amendment rights so we started out the meeting that that way we had a curriculum annual review report that the school board had seen previously we went over that in some greater

122depth with the dcac and then uh jake and melissa sonic introduced us to a new um console a new committee that i think we'll be hearing more about down the road but uh very student driven started out with student voice but there's going to be a new lgbtq plus equity council that we're going to be hearing more about students staff parents families and admin will be on it so there'll be more to come on that i'm extremely excited to hear about that and then i think it was on a tuesday night and i had an opportunity to attend the brim hall pta meeting about an hour and a half after the derek shovin verdict had um been placed out into the community so our meeting opened up with a really good space on discussion about

123that verdict the grief and the trauma that has been happening and what brim hall staff and teachers have been doing and talking to students and families about some of that grief and that drama and also a great update on one of brimhall's biggest events of the year the readathon and that was still moving forward uh during the pandemic and how it was going so far was a success so that was it thank you kitty or rose sure a few different things that like to update on um i had to attend to a chance to attend the msb school law update and there were two major topics both related to civil rights one was around transgender accommodation or specifically even broader than that really on the definition of sex in law to include both gender orientation

124and um and gender identity and uh we reviewed a variety of courses i'm sure uh cases i'm sure many of you are familiar with the supreme court cases last december in particular but lots of other things around that but nothing too surprising for the way the district has been working or or um operating for quite a while the area that i found um perhaps a little bit more um informative or new to me was around free speech i mean it's certainly well established that students don't shun their constitutional right um when they come in the school door but there are a number of cases going on and there is something before the supreme court this spring um around how to deal with the news speech in the 21st century or in essence um this you

125know the social media and um making comments around social around related to school on social media that have an effect on school and how what's where does free speech stop and where does schools um uh influencer role um lie and and so that would be something very interesting to watch um have more information if anybody should be interested but that's um the gist of it they also um ms betas have on their website a variety of cases if somebody would want to learn more about that had a chance to attend the falcon heights pta meeting last week and their last that was the day of the last transition and they picked up 40 students and with some creative um laying out patterns in rooms they were able to keep all the students three feet apart

126um and they were very pleased with the code protocols and how students were were dealing with and working through that and everyone who was supporting that one thing that was interesting it was neat to hear that even in this time of pandemic that there's been a project a partnership or collaboration with seniors um through kind of coordinated with the city of falcon heights to bring seniors into the room for story time and they had five seniors i'm coming regularly to help volunteer in that in that effort um got a chance to attend the local elected meter uh local elected leaders elected officials meeting um and i know most there were four of the board members uh there um so most folks had a opportunity um as well as i'll mention the moment also with the

127special education advisory committee there was an opportunity to kind of share thoughts and feelings on the show and verdict i think that kind of probably dominated most the meetings last week which was such a big development um in going in our community um got to hear the presentation from dr socoli and dr um lake on the um levy and material that we also got to see as a board at our last meeting it was interesting to hear that little candidate is looking in a levy and hra is looking at a levee that was probably two very helpful pieces of information of course as always they look it's always interesting to hear what the different levels of types of government functions are doing i did not able to attend the special education advisory committee but i

128did have a chance to view the video they post their video so that all special education families have an opportunity or access to the material which is a wonderful way to have it available and the meeting was really focusing on vocational uh rehabilitation services um that um are offered through deed but we actually in our high school or in our s or for our 14 to 21 year olds we have a rehab rep and a rehab counselor available to support the students offering job exploration work experience opportunities work readiness training training at college at college or exploration college and self-advocacy skills particularly in the workplace and and how the partnership between the md minnesota department of education the school district and the vocational rehab services is working and connecting the students with the support they

129need and got to hear a lot about that and some great examples of successes through that so that was all and i think that oh no there's one more [Music] um i covered the ones i wanted to thank you great thanks kitty rose did you have anything for us this evening i just echo i i went to the meeting that uh dr sukhari put together quarterly for the local local officials i just find that meeting very helpful to understand um how you know how what what is going on at city level um at the county level at the state level as in particularly from the lens of roseville area school and then for the rosette area school to be able to kind of provide updates and i know uh many uh like josh was there

130and i know dr lake was there um i think sherry was there and so it it i know we all i mean i think the group was very appreciative that um superintendent elect dr lake will continue that tradition to make sure that we we stay connected that way to really look for ways to collaborate and continue to leverage each other's resources to do the work that we need to do for the community so really appreciate that i've actually used that as an example i gave i gave someone else asking me like how are y'all doing i go well i i i actually offered this example of how you know that in roseville area district that we we have a model of really partnering with uh local area officials so so thank you thank you and

131that's another example of something dr coley has brought to our district yes there was great appreciation for that edition yeah so it's a culture now right that that people almost now say want other districts to be doing the same um so that we can actually work closer together and continue to cultivate those partnerships so thank you and just to add on to that point too commissioner and joe mcguire is always someone who's very appreciative of these local government official meetings and she says so at every opportunity and she mentions that you know we don't take it for granted here not every single school district so she tells all these other school districts to do something like this and we're one of the very few so she's very appreciative of the fact and we do have

132something special here and thanks again to dr sokoli yeah thank you that's uh that's your legacy thanks chris i just have a few things so one i'll add on to that i agree and i think dr lake recognizes this it's not just an information exchange that you know we should probably name it the dr sokoli you know honorary quarterly update or something but um it's it's a form for us to ask for help and i think we will do that and as dr philly did in the past it's the way in not just in that forum setting but then to get face time with the various bodies that those folks represent as we move ahead for example in messaging around the levy referendum and where to go so um maybe we should just call it

133that the the sokoli meeting or something everybody will everybody would understand what that meant so although great great idea there let's see second thing we did have another equity alliance minnesota meeting um just three things one they continue to be involved in out selling their work they've they've done gotten some engagements they have a line on others they're busy doing grant writing up writing grant applications they're doing the good stuff they should do uh secondly um they're at the end of the last period that was covered by the previous strategic plan so sebastian is going to be putting sebastian witherspoon the executive director uh we're putting together a process uh to share with uh our board there and how he proposes to kind of move ahead and recraft redraft reformulate re-envision uh the mission of

134the strategy as they move ahead over the next three to five years and then the third small thing paula o'laughlin who many of you may know has rejoined equity alliance minnesota so after 10 years with emid eamn she had left to join msba and now has come back as of last month to be uh to work with uh development and learning within equity alliance so welcome back to paula uh and then my final thing is i also was able with curtis to go and cheer on the students as they began their walk out last week and really commend dr coley and assistant superintendent like for also being there to show their support along with principal hester and a lot of the leadership of the high school and again as curtis mentioned none of the none

135of the grown-ups went with the kids because this was their this was their thing and um you know what really impressed me was the seriousness that those kids undertook this with with which they undertook this um you know it was for one thing it was cold i mean with a really brisk wind and snow flurries and you know they weren't they weren't out there to be on a lark to be able to get out of school for half an hour an hour while they did this they were committed they were all dressed pretty much 100 percent in black as they had organized themselves and again for those in the community who may not realize this this was a student student-led and student-initiated event statewide that was that was self-organized by students across the state kind

136of behind the scenes and so to have probably about 300 kids come out ready and and some of those 300 didn't come out the doors they were kids who'd been remote learning who either they themselves or their family members drove them up in cars and they jumped out ready to roll with the group it was just really really impressive and made me very proud that these were kids who who who were active and um and and are in a school environment in which our teachers and our staff and our district leadership encourages that kind of participation and that kind of civic engagement so they felt that they could do that and would want to do that so it was just a very very very proud moment to see them kind of go off you know

137their kids so they were clustering and chatting but it wasn't jocular or jovial it was it was a very somber occasion they were very serious about what they wanted to do and why they were there to do it so it's very uh very impressive so with that we'll turn to dr sicoley for his superintendent report well thank you so again i'd like to uh thank the community for passing the bond referendum in november 2017 and uh projects continue to be on time and within budget as we're ending the or we're approaching the last few months of the final two projects the abet duter education center the construction of that building and then the john j time performing arts center at roseville area high school so we look within anticipation towards uh completion of those projects

138and we are thankful to the community uh it was brought up during this meeting uh that we have an operating levy that's going to expire and certainly that's been on our minds for quite some time and in our discussions and so i do want to remind the community that that bond referendum is that was 2017 is for facilities and that really the operating referendum operating levy is what helps with learning it helps staff our buildings it helps get the material students need to learn we do have one that's going to expire so the board knows that to avoid that they need to go out on the ballot in november of 2021 and then we also know that uh an increase is needed for a variety of reasons so um they alluded to a survey that

139was done recently earlier in this meeting and i think dr shah's summary of the last uh study session and um so certainly that will be taken into consideration next steps is we bring uh some potential options for ballot questions to the board of the next meeting and study session to process further as they approach a timeline of making important decisions in the coming months um as numerous board members have mentioned at this meeting i just want to cite our students too we have amazing students they're going to change the world for the better and you know so i will also cite the same two things that board members cited because they speak to they're consistent with the district's equity vision and they speak to student voice and really we're both student initiators so the lgbtq

140plus committee that's really student initiated and so great things are already coming from that and will come in the future and then also as was mentioned not just initiated by our students at roseville area high school but also statewide the march here that went to city hall uh to advocate for racial justice it's just great to see our young people young adults um act in this way so you advocate for a better society so they continue to amaze me and it's great to be associated with them so i'm appreciative of that thank you thank you aldo with that having completed the business before us tonight we're adjourned bye everybody everyone