001We will go ahead and call this meeting of the 437 Board of Education to order. Um we're going to start with um staff and school highlights tonight. So if Ed, you're up. >> Thank you, Mr. President. Ladies and gentlemen, it's a pleasure to be with you this evening. like to start off by offering our best. And first up is Justin Gian. He is our shining star award. He's our student recognize Justin, uh, whose excellence is defined not just by achievement, but by service and leadership. Um for those of you that go to soccer games, you know that he has immense um spirit and really has some cheer prowess that we hear often over the crowds at soccer games. But uh tonight we're recognizing him for his for his contributions to the school community. Uh he
002is a student at Wasp Roll High School who uh entirely on his own initiative began volunteering two years ago to tutor and mentor middle school students in our afterchool assistance program. What began as service quickly became leadership. Justin coordinates scheduling, communication, and consistency for his tutoring team. And he shows up every week with patience, professionalism, and purpose. Our middle school students, many of whom struggle academically, organizationally, or with confidence, look forward to working with him. Justin meets them where they are, holds them accountable, and helps them move forward. Maybe you should consider teaching in Auburn, Washurn, Justin. [laughter] He is especially effective with students with disabilities, balancing empathy with high expectations. This is not just tutoring. It is genuine leadership. Academically, he's at the top of his class of 440 students. He serves as president
003of our National Honor Society in HOSA and co-founded the tutoring program that served more than 180 students. He was recently admitted to Cornell University, an achievement that reflects both his intellectual curiosity and work ethic. Yet what stands out most is his humility. You still standing right behind me. [laughter] Reliability and care for others. Justin represents the very best of Washurn Rural. Scholarship, service, and character. And we're proud to honor him as a shining star. Justin. >> All right. [applause] >> [applause] >> He stands ready for questions if you have them about how excellent he is. >> Oh, I just wanted to say like thank you to this district and thank you to all my teachers and all my friends along the way that helped me to this moment. Thank you again. >> How difficult was
004your decision picking Cornell over Kansas State? [laughter] >> It was very difficult. If you'd like to get a Anyone [clears throat] have you scooch this way? two cameras [clears throat] here. So, I'm going to start with this one. [clears throat] Congratulations, [laughter] [applause] Justin. Welld deserved. Next, I'd like to recognize Kyle Kyle Fowler, who's one of our two all-star um award winners. Kyle, you want to come on up? [applause] I'm pleased to be recognizing Kyle, whose contributions to Washurn Rural have been consistent, generous, and largely behind the scenes. For many years, Kyle has served our school as both a teacher and an assistant coach, supporting our athletic programs, our head coaches, and our students in ways that often go unnoticed, but are absolutely essential. He's dependable, steady, and the kind of professional people trust without
005needing to ask. For a long time, Kyle also worked right next door to Brian Hansel, a partnership that became so routine at Washurn Ro, it was practically an institutional arrangement. So when Kyle moved from social studies into construction science, it's fair to say Brian didn't just lose a colleague, he lost a wall. And I think there were real separate uh there was a real separation anxiety there. We're pleased to report that both appear to be recovering. Okay. That move though says everything about Kyle. He stepped in con into construction science, learned new programming, developed new technical skills, and embraced a steep learning curve. All to meet a need in our building. He did it quietly and without any expectation of recognition. Cal Fowler does an extraordinary amount for this school with humility that is rare
006even among our best educators and we are better because of him. It's an honor to recognize Kyle this evening. [applause] Brian, you want to come? [laughter] >> He [clears throat] went all the way up here. >> [laughter] >> Okay, just so we know, these are two of my biggest mentors. And uh I told Brian the other day and of course I told him I think I think you were the only one I told about this and I said the only other person I really truly want to be here is not that I don't [laughter] but it is what it is. Um, I wouldn't be where I'm at in this school without >> Okay. Okay. [applause] Finally, I'd re I'd like to recognize Bradley Miles. Bradley, come on up here. [applause] Tonight, we have the privilege
007of recognizing someone who truly represents the heart of Washurn Rural High School, Bradley Miles. Bradley is a graduate of Washurn Rural and began working for our district right out of high school. He's now been a part of our school community for nearly 19 years. While Bradley works a shortened schedule, I think three to four hours a day, he accomplishes more in that time than many do in a full eight hour shift. There is no downtime with Bradley. When he's here, he's all business. What makes Bradley special goes beyond work ethic. He doesn't know a stranger. He's genuine, authentic, and brings energy and positivity to everyone around him, even after a long, physically demanding day. You'll still find Bradley in the evening at games cheering on our students and supporting our teams. Bradley's not just someone
008who works in our building. He's part of our extended family. And we're better because he is here. We're grateful for his commitment, his energy, and his heart. Bradley, on behalf of everybody here, I want to say that we love you and it's an honor to recognize you as an all-star this evening. [applause] >> Anybody like come on up. Here we go. [snorts] >> Bradley picture. [laughter] Perfect. >> Congratulations. [applause] >> [snorts] [clears throat] >> Thank you, Ed, for that. Um, do we have anyone signed up for public comments? >> We do not. >> All right, we are going to move kind of into the meat of our meeting. If anyone was here just for recognitions, um, this is a great time to kind of make an exit. Um, Mr. Hensel, we would love for you
009to stay for the rest of the meeting if you want to, but okay. Um, but we are going to go ahead and move on to roll call. Um, everyone but Brian Smith is present. Um, and then we'll move to 3.02 approval of the agenda. >> I move to approve the agenda is published. >> Second. >> There's been a motion and a second. All those in favor? >> No. >> Motion passes six to zero. We'll move on to section four. Disposition of disposition of business by consent. I move the board of education approve business by consent including the payment in the bills in the amount of $1,84,251.77 cents. >> Second. >> It's been a motion and a second. All those in favor? Motion passes 6 to zero. We'll move on to section five. It doesn't look
010like any administrator reports tonight. Um and so section six um 6.01 is K12 Mastery 10 standards for social studies. Hello again everyone. All plugged in here. We have made it to the end of our core subject. So we are talking about K12 social studies mastery 10 standards this evening. Um so again I don't want to sound like a broken record but I want to walk you through just a little bit of information about these social studies standards. They are slightly different in how they are organized than the other core areas. So our social studies standards are based on the national college career and civic life or otherwise known as the C3 framework with our content that's focused on our Kansas standards. So if we think about our mastery 10 standards for social studies, they highlight
011what must be mastered within a grade band. So again, this like I said, these are a little bit different. So rather than each grade level, they're banded by K2, 3, 5, 6, 8, and 912. And then um all standards are still taught much like the other mastery standards. It's just that they are taught in supporting fashion if they're not mastery. Um again, these are implemented and supported by our board approved instructional materials as well. So in terms of our process for these standards, it was much like the other content areas. It was highly collaborative. We included all staff in the input in the fall of 2024. We've had ongoing collaboration with our teachers, with our DCC's um throughout the last year and a half. We circled back with all staff again this fall and actually
012just last Wednesday, Morgan Brown and I met with both our elementary social studies department curriculum committee as well as our secondary group to kind of revise that process again just to have feedback, communication about what's working, what might we need to fix a little bit. So we reviewed those last week and then our feedback and continuous improvement will occur um as we go throughout time. So included for your review this evening are um our K12 mastery 10 standards overview that gives you the standard and the rationale for choosing that standard as well as our K5 alignment and our 612 vertical alignment as well. And again please note that these standards are built in grade band. So what would a student know by the end of second, by the end of fifth, by the end of
013eth and 12th. Um but they are all adopted for each and every grade course um associated in K12. Um items up for discussion next time will be our special. So PE, music, art and library. In terms of this evening, what questions might you have about social studies? >> Questions. >> All right. Thank you. >> Thanks. Thank you. >> All right, we will move on to 6.02, which is capital outlay for 2026 2027. So, Rich, >> I think I have that one. Um, like to kind of start out with a little bit of an overview of what capital outlay is and how that process works. I some of you haven't been here for that before. Um, so um just kind of um I know Dr. Dr. Mc Williams sent out in his Friday brief the um
014four sheets uh that have the uh recommended equipment, not recommended equipment, the recommended facilities and not recommended facilities. So, those are in there and they're in the board docs for you to review as well. Um, capital outlay is um is a a budget that um we have that can only be spent for certain items and it's typically uh like facility items, equipment items, u roofs, uh parking lots, buses, things like that that um can't or you typically don't come out of the general fund. So, capital outlay covers those items. And um every every year we start about in October, November, Patrick Clear and I will go out visit with all the building principles, walk their buildings, take a look at uh things that they may need or want in their buildings and then they give
015us recommendations. We come back and we put budget estimates to those items and then it goes to um a uh an admin subcommittee uh for recommendations. And then we have a board subcommittee that reviews those recommendations and then we bring it to the board. We the subcommittee met right before the board meeting tonight to review those spreadsheets and go over those items. Um one thing um just as kind of a reminder capital outlay uh most of those projects are done in the summer months but what's approved in the spring isn't actually done typically until the following summer. So if there's safety items or things that are pressing that need to be done, some of those things because the way the the revenue comes in that revenue stream um we get some in in July, some
016in January. So we have to kind of balance those projects out um and have the cash in the bank to support those projects before we start them. Um we actually are in a really good place right now with our buildings. um we didn't get um near the request that we typically would because we've had um the blessing or the benefit of having the bond and we've been able to get a lot of things done with the bond. Um and some of those items that we've been able to do um and fit into those building projects um are helping us out with our capital outlay. So that takes a little bit of stress off of that budget um to be able to do some of the other things that that we need to do. Um we're
017um so if there's any questions, anything on that, I feel like we're in a really good spot right now with capital outlay. I I there there weren't a lot of questions from the subcommittee. I think we covered those, but if anybody has questions between now and the 16th, happy to answer those or Patrick's happy to help with that, Brett. Um we can answer those questions before the next meeting. But >> the only other I thanks Rich for that. The only other thing I'll mention is sometimes when we say do not recommend, sometimes the phrase we use is uh not yet or not now. And so that might be something that we would like to eventually get to or it might be an item that costs so much that takes a couple years to build up
018enough to be able to complete it. And so uh Rich will have those one-off conversations with the principal if it's a building item to say, "Hey, we'll get there. We just can't get there quite quite yet this year." So sometimes no doesn't mean no forever. Well, there were also some things on the list that can't be done in [clears throat] necessarily capital outlay, but there's other avenues to fund those. Um, look at that. Not recommended list sometimes. >> Right. So, some of those supply type items or things like that. Capital outlay funds can't be used for those, but there's potential of other funding sources that we can work through to try to get those things that are needed in the buildings or for a program. >> Right. Any questions for Rich? If not, that will
019come back for approval at the next board meeting. >> Thank you. >> So then, uh we'll move on to 6.03, which is board policy updates. First read. >> That's right. So, as a friendly reminder, uh this is a part of the um um work that the legal council does at the Kansas Association School Boards. Uh during the wintertime, typically in December, they'll send out a handful of updates uh to policies. And so we have bundled four together that are extremely easy, not much content change. Uh for board policy uh BC BK, um it's stating the obvious. Uh we can't do any kind of a recording in executive session. We already knew that. Um policy BG. Um it's possible to be a member of the National School Board Association without being a member of KASB. They've
020updated that policy. uh board policy IKCA uh removed a reference uh to AIDS which previously had been in the uh the policy and then uh the last one in regards to adult students. The law actually provides a little flexibility that our board policy did not so they made an update in that to be in compliant with policy. So these are pretty straightforward uh easy to work with. We have a handful of others that they are recommending from December. We're currently vetting those right now. As soon as we have them ready for you, we'll bring those at an upcoming meeting. >> Questions for Scott? Would anybody have a problem with this going on the consent agenda for next time or >> It's fine. >> Okay, I think we can put it on. >> Appreciate that. That'll
021go on the consent. Thank you. >> All right, we'll move on to section seven. Um 7.01 is K12 um mastery 10 standards for science final read. So any questions or comments on that or otherwise would entertain a motion. >> I'll move the board of education approve the presented standards as the official district curriculum for K through 12 science. >> Second. >> There's been a motion and a second. All those in favor? Motion passes six to zero. We >> move on to 7.02 2, which is staff request for two paraprofessional positions. >> I'll move the board of education approve the addition of a sixth grade par profofessional at Washurn Real North Middle School and a N and a CNA uh par profofessional at J. Shidler Elementary. >> Second. >> It's been a motion and second. All
022those in favor? Motion passes six to zero. Let's move on to communications 8.01 1 is um superintendent search update um which is kind of our standing item um to kind of update. So HYA will be here next meeting. Is that correct? >> Just making sure I'm saying that right. So um and then that's kind of the next step. So we're getting close to starting >> um the calling and interviewing process. So be exciting >> next few months with hopefully spring breakish time kind of having a decision made. So Chelsea, anything to add to that or anything else or Jessica? Perfect. All right. So, at this time, the chair would move that we go into executive session at 6:53 uh p.m. to discuss students pursuant to the exception relating to the actions adversely or favorably affecting
023a student under coma. um to discuss personnel matters pursuant to the exception of non-elected personnel under KUMA um and to discuss budget pursuant to the exception for employer employee negotiations under coma for 20 minutes. Um the open meeting will resume in the boardroom at 7:13 p.m. Second. There's been a motion and second. All those in favor? Motion passes 6 to zero. We are in executive session. We are back in open session after being in executive session. >> Motion to adjurnn. >> Second. >> A motion and a second. All those in favor? Motion passes six to zero. We are adjourned.