001We're live. [Music] It is 7 o'clock. I call this board meeting to order. Please lie. Rise for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all. Hey uh Miss Cook, you take attendance. Um chair maker and Mr. Ger absent. Everybody else is present. Okay, we have five. That means we have a quorum. So I'll go to item number four. Is there any new business business to be brought forward hearing? None. Then I'm going to go seek a motion for tonight's agenda. So second, I have a motion by Mr. Welch and a second by Mr. Lman. All in favor say I. I. I. All opposed. Motion passes. So move to number six.
002We have the recognition of the state adaptive bowling competitors that will be presented by Kim Severson. Okay. So we're missing a few friends tonight, but thank you for inviting us. Um Ally Peterson is not here, Brock Rasman is not here, and Lily is not here tonight. Um but we had an amazing season. We just finished our season on Friday at the state tournament up in Brooklyn Park. Uh we had seven of our bowlers competing. Um so how it works through the season regionals um was May 1st at Bolocity. Um there's under 600 bowlers in the state of Minnesota. Everybody submits their scores. Um, and then they take the top 32 competitors for each division. So, we have the physical impairment, the cognitive, and the autism. They take the top 32 for um individual and doubles.
003So, that then you're bowling with a partner. And then teams, that is a team of four. Um, so we had um let me look at my things. at state on Friday. There were 200 bowlers at um Bolero. They give medals to the top 10 in each division and we had Ally place sixth. We had Sierra place seventh. And then for doubles bowling with partners, we had Logan and Ryan get 10th place. We had Sierra and Lily get 18th and Brock and Dylan got 17th. Um so it was really really fun. It was super like busy. I know there's a lot of people there and I know it can be overwhelming, but it's a very supportive environment for everybody. It was just a lot of encouraging, a lot of smiles. Um, a really, really fun time.
004I think they enjoyed themselves. Um, we have one senior this year, so hopefully everybody will be back again next year. And then we'll be able to add some more more players next year too because we'll have our sixth graders this year becoming seventh graders who will be able to participate. So did you want to introduce them? Sorry. And then here we have Dylan Peterson. We have Logan Peterson. We have Laya Peterson. We have Ryan Walton, Sierra Stapplemore, and then Von is one of our coaches. And then our other coaches, Becca Bird. Um, and she's not here today. So any Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, thanks for inviting us. [Music] [Applause] Sorry. You're good. You're good. Squeeze together a little bit. Get together. Not cooperating. There we go. All right, everybody. Look at me. I'm going to
005take a few of them. Okay. Great job, guys. Congratulations. [Applause] Thank you for coming. Okay, now we'll move on to item number seven, the consent agenda. We have the A and B consider and approve the last meeting's minutes and the administrative recommendations. Is there any specific item on those that anybody needs to have pulled pulled out and discussed? Okay. Well, I'm seeking a motion. Second. I have a motion by Miss Kefir and a second by Mr. Welch. All in favor say I. I. All opposed. Motion passes 5-0. Item number eight be to consider and adopt the resolution accepting donations. This is from First Farmers Merchants and and Merchants Bank. It's in the amount of $929.30 and it is supplies for the popcorn. Uh what this does is it goes towards the cost of the concessions
006and allows us to um put more of the revenue that's earned from concessions towards the groups that work concessions. [Music] Okay. Is any discussion? No. Seeking a motion. I have a motion by Miss Kefir and a second by Mr. Lawman. All those in favor? Oh, this is a roll call vote. Sorry, we'll go down the line. So, Miss Cook, hi Miss Kefir. Hi, Mr. Lman. Hi, Mr. Welch. I and I for myself. Motion passes 5-0. Now, we'll move on to number nine, which would be the student council report and updates presented by Bailey Shoemaker and Samantha Jagouch. Looks like Samantha's not here. Is there someone else here with you or Yeah, we got you. Walk up by yourself. Looks like we have Lexi Botro and I'm sorry, Landon Hay. Landon Haye. Okay, go ahead. Hi.
007Um, good evening. I'm Bailey Shoemaker. Samantha Joa, who is usually here with me, was unable to make it due to family reasons, but we would like to thank you for your time. Um, a note from her. She's enjoyed this opportunity to work with you, and she will gladly help out and be in contact for any reasons you may come across. Um, we are back after a little break to discuss our recent elections, introduce our new school board representatives, and discuss our homecoming plans for next year. Advance. Our new exempt board was decided by our full student council on Wednesday, April 9th. Advance. Our executive board for the 2025 2026 school year is Matthew Waters as president, Samantha Joish as vice president, Carlen Ranger as treasurer, Christopher Waters as secretary, Bailey Shoemaker, me as parliamentarian, um,
008and our schoolboard representatives, Landon Haye, Savannah, who's not here today, and Alexa Bundro. These are their introductions. Hi, my name is Lexi Buntro, and I'm an incoming senior at the high school. I was first interested in this position because I wanted to learn more about what is going on in the community and to be more involved in student council. The thing I'm looking forward to most this year is to build connections within the community and to make a positive impact. Hello, my name is Landon A. I am currently a junior and upcoming senior over at the high school. The reason why I wanted this role was because I love speaking to the I love speaking and I feel like taking this position and speaking in front of you would uh help with that skill a
009lot. And the thing that I am looking forward to this upcoming school year is being part of student council and getting put getting to put together our amazing pepfest and the whole entire homecoming week. Sorry. Um, Savannah obviously wasn't able to make it tonight, but sent us what she would like to say. Hello. She's going to be a senior at Stokeville High School. She was interested in this role because she's always interested in helping other students to get their questions answered, and she loves doing things for her school. She's very excited to help improve the school in any way she can. Advance. Onto our general election results, which were voted schoolwide on Wednesday, April 16th. Our incoming freshman class voted Satie Romins as president, Caitlyn Larson as vice president, and the representatives are Aiden Oswald
010and Gavin Lerno. Our incoming sophomore class voted Ryan Erie as president, Ivan Bolt as vice president, and the representatives are Carter Peterson and M Kuos. The Atlord members who will previously be in student council members were voted to add are Ely Campbell, Llaya McConnell, Piper D. Young, and Olivia Whittenback. Advance. Our incoming juniors voted Olivia Hamilton as president and Jenna Kim as vice president. The representatives are Key Caldwell, Cadence Rest, Carlen Regger, and Bailey Shoemaker. The atlarge member is Reagan Middlestead. The incoming senior class voted Elias as president, and myself as vice president. Our representatives are Carson Vogle, Logan McCrady, Christopher Waters, and Landon Hen, Savannah Whittenback, Matthew Waters, and Samantha and Samantha Joggers. advance. So, homecoming is our next big project on W on Wednesday, April 30th. We decided on homecoming heads for each
011committee. We haven't decided on a set date yet, though, but we are thinking about um September 26th. Our homecoming head, who is in charge of all committees and their work, is Samantha Josh. The dance committee, the dance committee head is Bailey Shoemaker, and the the co-heads are Elise Campbell and Laya McConnell. The parade committee heads are Matthew Waters and Christopher Waters. Coordination co-heads are Alexa Bunrock and Carlen Regger. Fun activity co-heads are Elias Young and Logan McGrady with Carter Peterson as a shadow. PEP Fest committee pepest committee head is uh myself. Do you have any questions? And thank you for all your time today. I I don't have any questions. I just want to comment on um the communication that you guys are providing us and the the organization that you have for not only
012now but for the upcoming year. I think that's pretty impressive and um makes everything go much smoother when he can um be organized. So well done. Thank you for your time. [Applause] And now we're on item 10, the AIM high high student achievements. We'll be receiving a report from Haley Lifig and the Center Education Center. All right. Welcome. Thank you for having me tonight. we are going to be talking about what we focused on in our pres or preschool PLC for the school year. Um so a lot of this year um for our focus for PLC's didn't always align with K5. So we have a few different focus areas um that we will get into next. Um on this next slide here we talked a lot about um pyramid model implementation. So we are in
013year five of that. That is our final year. Uh, so this was a federal grant um through well federal but through the state of Minnesota. Um, I know that these are a lot of acronyms I'm throwing at you, but we'll get into each of them. Um, EC Swiss implementation, um, a TS Gold Assessment, which is our assessment tool that we use for preschool, um, successful learners equation and preK2K transition. So, we've heavily been taking a look at how we can make that um transition for our preschool students over to Boner smoother for um our students and for families. So, what are we supposed to say? Advance. Sure. Advance. Okay. I like it. Um so, yes, pyramid model. You've heard me talk about this before. Again, we're in year five, our fifth and final year. Um
014pyramid model is the preschool version of PBIS, which we have in our K K5 schools. Um, so it takes a takes a look at, um, all of the positive reinforcement, um, the staff buyin, family engagement, our programwide expectations. We've heavily worked on, um, classroom expectations, behavior expectations, um, expectations and hallway and, uh, using common terminology with what Bonner and Barave are using. Um something new that we started this year uh similar to Bonner, they have the um the Roar winners. So this year we have the Tiger Cub winners. So that's been something new that we've added this year. The kiddos really love classroom teachers. Everybody loves it. And so the kiddos have the opportunity to fill sticker charts off of their we call them green choices. And so um they're showing good behavior in the
015classroom, in the hallway, in the gym, outside. Um, anyone can give them a sticker from a bus driver to Miss Sulers, to myself, teachers, paras. Um, and then they are able to come down, stick their name in a jar, and at the end of the month, they get drawn to be the Tiger Come winner. So, that's been fun. Um, the kiddos are super hyped up on it. The classroom teachers love that. Um, so here are our benchmarks of quality for being on the fifth year. As you can see, we have nearly mastered um the pyramid model program. And what that is is a set of expectations, processes, and procedures within our program that we've been able to set within these five years um to kind of master them by year five. And really within the
016program, 80% is passing. So we're pretty excited to see these scores on our team. If you go to the next slide, it kind of dives a little bit into these benchmarks of quality. Um so starting in 2020 is the first bar here and 2020 was COVID. So our focus was not on positive expectations and program. We were just all surviving at that point and trying to stay open. So we've really seen the growth over the last five years in um a lot of the processes and procedures that we have in place. Um I know that that's really hard to read but um again it's the same same areas as um the slide before but just shows the growth over those five years. And so with this we do a lot of peer coaching in the
017program. So, we have co our teachers within the program that are trained that are able to um do a lot of peer coaching. And so, that's been um awesome to have within the classroom to help some of our um our newer teachers and some of our veteran teachers have been learning a lot from their different um processes within the classroom um and what that looks like. So, that's that's exciting to see. Our team feels very great um to be at where we're at in year five because it's been a struggle getting there. So, Move on to the next one. Um, ECSwiss implementation. This is a part of the pyramid model. Again, K5 uses this and this is a way to track um the behavior incident reports that we have within our classroom. And so um
018these are areas that we might have um challenging behaviors throughout the day, throughout the week. And so we can monitor it. It's real time, which is great. So you can take a look at um maybe a certain kiddo, maybe a space within the building or time. Um, but you can do um days per month, the instance per week. Um, as you can see, April was just very hectic. We had a lot of we were just ready to get outside. Um, and so that has been uh great for our team to be able to take a look at and dissect um weekly, monthly, you can uh pull it up and take a look at, okay, what's going on? Do we need to reassess what we're doing with transitions? Do we need to reassess what is going
019on on this at this time of day? Seems to be a lot of behaviors. And so that's been something that our team has been able to really take a take a look at and kind of reassess our schedules, what we're doing throughout the day and that type of thing. So, um, really to to help our students, um, it's been an awesome tool. So, we'll continue to use that moving forward. And again, this is what K5 uses as well. So, another great thing with transitions is we're able to transition this information over um, to our with our kiddos, too. The next slide here goes into our assessment piece. Um, TS school is our it stands for teaching strategy goals. Within the state of Minnesota, there are four um assessments for preschool in the state of Minnesota
020that we are allowed to use. And so these assessments are aligned with our EIPS. Again, I know a lot of acronyms, but those are our early childhood indicators of progress. And so those are our preschool standards in the state of Minnesota. Um, they have not been updated, I think, since 2017. And so we are taking a look. The state has not updated the EIP since then. And so um our hope was that they were going to be updated by this fall. We don't have those yet. So that one was kind of on the back burner. But we were still able to take a look at how we're using um our assessment and our birds data to help move kids along. The next one here is the um Minnesota Department of Ed came out with the
021successful learners equation. the fall of 2023. And so really this is taking a look at um ready families plus ready schools and programs plus ready communities plus ready state and ready systems equals a successful learner. So really takes all of those entities to make a successful learner. And so in the state of Minnesota we're taking a look at replacing the word readiness. So getting rid rid of readiness checklist for kindergarten. And really if you are 5 years old by September 1st, kindergarten in the state of Min Minnesota should um everybody is eligible at that age to enter kindergarten. So whether you're potty trained, whether you're behind cognitively, whether you are um a little bit shorter, whatever it may be, um the successful learner equation is really wanting everybody by age five to be heading to
022kindergarten. And historically in the state of Minnesota, um I Jeez, I just really sounded motan there. Um in the historically in the state of Minnesota, if you've been maybe a spring birthday or a summer birthday, we've often times said, well, give a give a gift of a year um another year in preschool and the state is really saying stop encouraging that because in the state of Minnesota, kindergarten, every kindergarten teacher should be ready for every kid coming through our door. have to be five years old by September 1st, whether they're potty trained. Um, and so that's been kind of a different mindset because historically this is um where we've been at in Minnesota. Um it's ultimately up to the parents on what they're wanting to do with their kiddos. But that's some of the information
023that's coming down um from the state on that. So um we did some trainings on that this year along with our kindergarten team. What that looks like. All right. The last and final one here is we worked um like I mentioned before worked with Mr. Mackenroy and the kindergarten team and our preschool team on a preschool to kindergarten transition. Um and so probably in the winter, early winter, Mr. Mackenroy and I both sent out surveys to incoming kindergarten parents and um current kindergarten parents on what they uh thought that they could use during the transition to kindergarten for their kiddos. what are areas in which they're a little bit nervous about um what are areas that may have went well for the current kindergarten parent. So took a look at some of that data and
024that feedback to help smooth that transition. I know that he's got a is it called a tiered start? Yeah. Um so during that tiered start, they're going to take a look at um some of that feedback and information to help with that um tiered start at kindergarten. Um we've really worked hard on increasing our early childhood screening efforts this year and so making sure that we're able to work with um OMC here IV um working with Southern Hills um some of the different areas in town to really get the word out there um so that we don't uh have you know get to kindergarten and um we are not through a screening. That's also another requirement in the state of Minnesota is to have an early childhood screening before entrance into kindergarten. So we worked
025on increasing that. Um we were able to provide some kindergarten and preschool vertical teaming. Uh this this was an awesome uh time awesome opportunity for um our kindergarten staff and our preschool staff to take a look at well what does your classroom look like? What is they often time don't uh oftentimes don't get that time to get in each other's buildings. Um what does schedules look like? What are we using for curriculum? What does assessment look like? And so we've been able to provide um some of that time for our teams to get together. Um so that's raised some um really rich conversations on moving forward and how we could help build that bridge. Um we've been able to through that also align behavior expectations. What is the terminology that are you using? Are you
026using tighter tails? Are we doing finger waves? Those types of things. And so um just again helping with that transition for some of our kiddos over to butter. Um align curriculum. Um, and then another piece here, we are able to um we we'll be plan on uploading our assessment at the end of the school year into Skyward to help transition some of those kiddos over so they aren't starting from scratch. And so our kindergarten team, we've been able to train them to look at our assessment tool on those kiddos that are transitioning over. Any questions on that? I know and I just talked a lot at you, so remind me. Um I don't I might have missed it but do have you guys talked about or do you already do where they would go over
027to Bonner and shadow for like an hour. We used to do that. Um but we we have not done that. Um I think there was some feedback that you get the summer gap in there. Um, and so there was some feedback from some parents that had said, "Well, we really like the opportunity for our kiddo to come over and see Bonner, but then three months of summer happens and it's so that yeah, we've talked about that a few times um to kind of get some type of process um in place for that, but just haven't got that narrowed down yet what would be the best fit." Yes. So then moving forward for this next year, um some of the items that we're looking at for our preschool PLC, um improving continuing to improve that uh
028preschool that transition or preschool to kindergarten transition um sustainability for the pyramid model. So year six and on, what does that look like? Um and then looking at the redact and some of the early literacy focuses. So print awareness, letter knowledge, chronological and phonic awareness. What is that going to look like within our classrooms, within our curriculum, and within our lesson camps? Any questions? So, you just say lots of exc mentioned this was a 5-year grant, but um maybe a state supported or federal fally supported. um you know going forward how from a financial aspect that grant funding where does that those funds come from now? I'm glad that you asked that. So moving forward well a lot of this work was uh paid for by putting together your processes and procedures and a lot
029of that internal coaching. Um and so a lot of that happened outside of the contracted day. Sure. Um and so and a lot of the manipulatives and stories and we use a lot of um puppetry and those types of things. social stories were always were all purchased with this grant money. And so moving forward, we're trying to figure out a way in which we can move that into um the workday. And so instead of um pure coaching where I'm going into your classroom, maybe we set up an iPad and then I'm viewing it um during my prep time or something like that. So we're taking a look at how we can figure out what that looks like and to sustain it moving forward. We're trying to creatively figure out how we can do some of
030that. So, okay. Thank you. Creative is probably the key word. Creative. Yeah. Yeah. I wanted to recognize Haley's leadership and her advocacy for the program in this building. Um, she's created a collaborative and cohesive team and they work really well together and the culture has become one that's focused on what's best for kids. even though they're the littlest learners that we have in the school district, um the priority that she's placed on making sure that we're providing a healthy and engaging learning environment for those kids has led to success. So, thank you, Haley, for all of your work. Someone I will say having a daughter who just came through two years of your program, she knew a whole lot more than I did at She was a fun kiddo. That's one word for it. Any
031questions or anything? Thank you, Haley. Thanks, Haley. On a on a side note, this is your last presentation probably before this. You know, I don't How long you been in the district? 10 years now or so. 14. 14. Um, but been able in your role now for several years. And I just want to, you know, thank you for all that you've done. The presentations you've always given have been great. Yeah, we'd be remiss not expressing our extreme gratitude for everything you've done. Yeah. Well, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I know. I came here tonight like not gonna cry because seeing all of your kids through preschool or athletics and Yes. But thank you. Great job. [Applause] Item 11, the aim to a safe welcome and engaging learning environment. We have no items on that.
032So then we go to number 12. Aim three, effective and effective and efficient operations. Item B, would you consider approve the proposed wage adjustments for tiger time staff? This is returning summer workers. There is not a wage scale in which they bump a step and so this gives them their increase to come back. Um for most of them it's between 10 and 25 cents. So based on how many I thought there was a schedule for that. No, it got dropped when we did the negotiations last round. So there is So there was but yeah, it scale doesn't exist anymore. But this is just something that you're going to do because we every year you come back you get an increase. Yes, understood. I'll make a motion. Okay. Second. So I have a motion from Mr.
033Welch and a second from Mr. Lman. Any other discussion? Okay. All in favor say I. I I opposed. Motion passes 5-0. And item B, consider adopt the resolution of the school board governing board supporting the dissolution of the MSHSL co-op for girls gymnastics. Each year, the Minnesota State High School League requires schools to um register for the activities that they're going to have students involved in in the following year. And that deadline is this month. And so this would notify the Minnesota State High School League that girls gymnastics is being dissolved. Both schools have to adopt the resolution and then the information will be provided to the Minnesota State High School. seeking a motion. So, Chatfield would adopt it. Are they meeting tonight, too? How does that work? Chatfield's meeting is on Wednesday is what
034I've been told. Okay. Because Yeah. Either you have to give a year's notice or you both adopt it. So, they would adopt it. We had adopted. They adopt it this week. Okay. Okay. So, I need a motion. So move. Second. We have a motion for Mr. Welch and a second for Miss Kefir. And this is a roll call vote. Miss Cook. I. Miss. Kefir. I. Mr. Lman. I. Mr. Welch. I. And an I for myself. Motion passes 5-0. Then the last item is adjournment. I have a motion for Miss Kefir and a second for Mr. Lawman. All in favor say I. I I opposed. Motion passes 5-0. This meeting is over at 7:29.