001over there. >> Hello, it is 6:36. Sorry, we're running a tiny bit late. I will call our meeting to order. Roll call. Liz >> here. >> Andrew >> here. >> Dr. Join me to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Someone please read the missions. >> I can read us today. >> The Mount Barbaria School District in partnership with the community is dedicated to nurturing, educating, and challenging all students, preparing and empowering them to be productive, responsible, and self-filled members of society. >> Thank you, Jeff. Would someone like to make a motion to approve or revise our agenda? >> Motion to approve tonight's agenda. >> Second. Motion by Tom, second by Carly. All those
002in favor of approving our agenda, please say I. I. >> Anyone opposed? >> Approval of our May 4th, 2026 reorg meeting regular board and close session minutes. Would anyone like to make a motion to approve? >> Motion to approve. >> Second. Motion by Harley, seconded by Tom to approve our meeting minutes. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. Any oppos. >> Addressing the board school news. Andrew or Jack, would you like to begin? >> Okay. Um there's a choir concert happening right now. Um we just had our 6 through 12 band concert which was fun. If you went into our middle clarinet group, um we've got Memorial Day coming up. Scholarship nights on Wednesday and French juniors and seniors are headed to Chicago on Friday. We're gonna go to the French markets and
003the art museum because I've never been to Chicago. So I've >> also never been on a train. >> Andrew, do you have anything you'd like to add? >> Um, I have two. So the uh forensics banquet was uh finally rescheduled to the 28th. Um so about 10 days away. Um and then the badge boy state orientation was I think it was was yesterday. Yeah, it was yesterday. So yesterday. Um that's all I have. I'm completely honest. >> All right. Thank you. >> Thank you. And I know that many of you have been following uh the news lately as it refers to what was supposed to be a blockbuster agreement between the legislature and the governor's office that did not come to fruition. In essence, it really would have helped our students tremendously. um and particularly
004meant the agreement that was made with the last budget bianium to fund our special needs program at 42 and 50% uh more than what they had initially prognosticated in the last budget by and late Wednesday night of last week we learned uh that the Senate did not approve that agreement there are a variety of reasons for why um and my hope was until I read the paper um yesterday. In fact, this article is of particular interest to me. Um thinking, well, just maybe this means that this could be revived at some point. And it seems to me like um no, that's not in the offering. So, um I'm grateful to all those uh in our community, particularly our faculty members and our staff members who join in partnership with the school district, the board of
005education, their leadership in uh letting our voices be known and about the impact uh their inability, my words, uh to make a decision uh is having on our young people, a staff who love them. doesn't mean we keep up. We don't keep on trying. In fact, um I'm excited about the work of our new legislative liaison in Gal by the name. This is Carly Fischer. And with that, I might turn it over to you so that you might be able to share any other additional insights that you thought we had. Yeah, I mean the only the the the main other thing I would add is I mean I frankly was pretty stunned on Wednesday night when the news came down that that it was going to die. And um die a bipartisan death. And I
006think that um a couple organizations have issued statements since then urging the governor and legislators to try again to come back to the board and try again including uh there was a Wisconsin state journal article this morning about the five five superintendents of the largest districts across the state in Madison, Milwaukee, RC Green Bay and I can't remember um urging the legislature to come back and and try again. Uh, Senator Hasselbine has publicly said she's willing to to talk about another proposal. Um, given the the summer recess and how hard it is to keep attentive attention during the summer, I don't know how realistic that is. I think the immediate um lesson from here, I think I think part of what happened is there's a lot of gambling going on on who's going to control
007the legislature in the fall. And I think the lesson here is again as always all of the legislatores legislators need education on what public education means. Not just one party or the other but all of them. And I think should the legislature change hands, it's just as important that we're talking with them and educating them about our needs and and what we truly what would truly be helpful. In the meantime, we channel our energy in things that we can control. And one of those things that we can control is recognizing, rewarding, outstanding students and uh staff members. This Wednesday night at 5:00 promises to be a very special night. Leah Lipka, you were one of the people who started this annual tradition. The Viking Skull Awards, would you remind us what that is all about?
008>> Yeah, it came out of schoolboard convention. Um, and it is a chance for students to give awards that might not otherwise get awards. Um, and also where they can give an award to a teacher. We've had got one of those. Um, it's one of my favorites. I'm going to go, which I'm going to be sad. This is the first one on this. Or's getting his wisdom teeth out. So, if he's not loopy enough, then maybe I'll go sleep. It'll be fine. Um, so it's very Yeah, it's a very awesome event. There's We didn't have enough tissues the first year. We had to make sure there was more tissues. >> It is. It's hard. It's It just tears at the art strengths with these kids like so like most improved. I can't thank all the
009ones that that are up there, but it's Yeah, it's a great event. >> Thank you for helping to champion it, allow it to happen. And then that night, Jack, word has it they're giving out scholarships. Have you heard about this? That's the word I've heard. Yeah. back up the brink struck. >> Not exactly. Don't they I mean with Rotary they have to perform at a certain level and report back. So it's not really a truck being backed in with money. >> I think >> I like the imagery though. >> It is pretty cool, isn't it? Yeah. I'd like to think there about $90,000 last year that this community gave to its graduates. And I want to say if it's not that amount, it's something close to that coming up this year. And it takes say
010a village, but I can't help but recognize Carrie Wine. If you get a chance to see our school council, Carrie Wine, she puts this all together so lovingly. Trying to coordinate all this is just unreal. It'll be a very special night. So I think that starts at about 7:00 that night. >> Come join us. >> It is crazy cuz the kids don't necessarily know what they're getting. They just know they're getting something. And so every time like my kids go for this one. I don't know. It's kind of like like I feel like you should shout bingo or something when they finally call your name like >> Does anybody else have any screeners? >> I have something else. Um, last Friday I was lucky enough to attend the IC the ERB presentation by uh, Miss
011Beard and it was really uh, well thought out and the kids really were engaged and um, what they were able to do and put on for an hourong program was very impressive. Um, it was my understand her 30th year putting on that program. So, um, shout out to her and, um, wishing her the best in her retirement. And maybe, uh, a whisper out to the staff we have to maybe keep her tradition going be nice. Um, we have that. And then, um, I also heard that the fifth and sixth grade um, got first place in the mega math heat last week or the week before. So, kudos to them. And then I believe we see the co that was was teaching that or handling that group. So they were really excited. Um and then on
01258 uh strikeout cancer was at the baseball game and the baseball team won and there was a really good turnout. Um always impressed with the community when when there's someone in need. So kudos to everybody that participated in that. Um and I don't know if this was mentioned but tomorrow night there's a special reading night. Is that correct? Right. I don't have all the details on that, but I'm open to attend that as well. Maybe you can share with love to you know who's doing a super job with that is our director of instruction. You're pointing again. I'm so sorry. >> You're supposed to point with your like this, right? Isn't that amazing? Bill Clint, >> could you could you share a little bit about our road trip across America? >> Yeah, I'd love to.
013So, um, each May we have a family reading night. In the past, we've had celebrity guest readers and Dr. Seno has been a celebrity guest reader in the past. He's coming back this year, but but we've changed our format a bit cuz we're partnering with our PTO as well. Um, fancy pants dance about a month ago probably due to weather. So, we wanted to make sure that the PTO had an opportunity um to provide their son option to fund raise for >> All sorts of stuff. All all the good things that they donate back to our schools and our classrooms. And they they're also helping us sponsor a meal um that night as well. So, we have road trip across America is our theme this year in honor of the 250th birthday United States. And
014we have literacy games, reading games throughout the building. Um, we'll have Steve as our guest reader as well as Hannah be the librarian from Baltimore Public Library. She'll be joining us as well as guest readers. We'll have the PTO auction there. We'll have uh an art room with Miss Allison and we'll have food for families. So, it's a hot dog grill out with all the fun things that go along with it. So, hopefully we get many people to come in the sun and have a good night and hopefully the weather's great. So it is it starts at >> 5:30 to 7. 5:30 to 7. Okay. >> I will be there. >> Come hungry if you like >> and come visit me cuz I'll be running the silent auction. Then I guess I just the spring
015sports are going uh right now still um strong and I believe that everybody participates and has fun and competes to their best of their abilities. And then the other other thing I can think of is um there's still a lot of field trips going on in school and hopefully the kids take out on those field trips and learn a lot. >> Thanks. Anybody else? >> All righty. Well, it looks like maybe we have one of citizen comment this evening. >> So, fortunate members to have with us. Patty Schlaver, a wonderful supporter of our young people. >> Thank you. >> Teacher. >> Yes. Retired teacher Patty Schaefer with my friend Sue Hunter actually here tonight from P Flag Mount Bora. As you all probably know, we are a local chapter of a nonprofit national organization that
016supports the LGBTQ plus community and those who love it. Um, tonight I thought it was important to just briefly say thank you simply to say thank you. We've been hearing a lot of news recently from Watertown and we see the impact the school board can have in a small community. So, it is with that said that I want to thank you for your service as Olympic School members and your consistent thoughtfulness and support for all of our teachers. Um, and for all of our remarkably diverse student population and for all those who So, we're here to say big. Thank you. Thank you. All righty. Moving on then into personnel transactions. Um, should we first pass our personal transactions or we should we first meet Mrs. Johnson? >> I you know what? I probably should have
017done it in reverse and asked uh Mrs. Rebecca Johnson uh to come up first and and she brought some of her fan club with us. >> That's your cue. step here after her as Becca and her beautiful family find their way to the front of the district uh is the hunt for a really strong director of student services candidate and news of our departure of Brian Johnson. By the way, I love this. Brian Johnson, Becca Johnson. We saved money on the name plate on the door. Johnson. But nonetheless, I can't tell you we had what 30 different applicants for this position and boy are we getting the best of the best. Uh background in supporting uh diverse students has been her mission in life, our calling. uh being a um associate director and then director
018of CISA 5's uh special education support services eventually uh parlayed that into a role uh similar to that of hers right now uh in Belleville uh as the director of student services yet she started all of these skills uh and grew all of these skills as a teacher of special needs students in the Green Bay public school system so a diverse background to be Sure. And uh I think without a doubt everyone with whom we spoke just had wonderful wonderful things to say about Becca and we're so grateful that she accepted our recommendation to you tonight board members. Uh but before you uh make that decision. Uh I might uh and turn it over to Becca to introduce her family. And if you wouldn't mind you saying a few words please. And thank you. >>
019Uh so this is my husband Craig. He uh is a director of technology in the Randolph School District. So good public school guy. And then this is our youngest son, Michael. He'll be graduating from Cornage High School um at the end of this month. So going on to Madison College. Uh and then this is our oldest son, Brett. He is a Nebraska cornhusker. He just finished his junior year in software engineering there. So this is my favorite club. Um, and I'm super excited um to join the Montorg family. I actually am I was a cross plains kid but started in the Montg School District many many moons ago. Um, and so my parents owned the Hilltop in so kind of familiar with the area. And then um when I worked for C5, Brian brought me
020in for one day a week and I always said to him, "Whenever you decide to not worry about anymore, uh let me know because this would definitely be one of my top chances. This is my place to go next." So super excited that you guys are helping me make that dream come true. Super excited to start. >> We're super excited to have you here. Thank you for accepting the call to serve here in Mount Tora. You're going to make us better. We just know it. You're going to take us to new levels. Uh, and whatever challenges await us, I think we've got the right team assembled to get us to a really good spot. So, thank you. >> Thank you for your thoughtful consideration. And, uh, you all being Chicago Cuff fans, right? >> They
021have season tickets to the Brewer Silence. They have to say that. >> That was what we were going to do in empty nest land, right? Yes. That's what we're both back. So, gymnastics >> and thank you board members for your thoughtful consideration about this candidates. >> Thank you for coming. It's very nice to meet you. Nice to meet all of you. Good to see you again. You too. >> All righty. Would anyone like to make a motion to approve our personal transactions? Motion to approve. Second. Motion by Leah, seconded by Harley. All those in favor of consuming our personnel transactions, please say I. >> I. >> Anyone opposed? Number five, consent agenda. Is there anything that anyone would like to pull out to discuss otherwise? >> Actually, sorry. Uh, I actually have a question on
022the partnership agreement. I don't I think it's >> I can make up an answer if you want. >> No, it's what's our legal name or do the school district or school district. Well, I would say that we go ahead and make a motion to do that. >> Motion to approve consent agenda >> with change with the change. >> All right. All those in favor of approving our consent agenda, please say I. >> Anyone opposed? Okay. Number six, we disapprove the consent agenda. Thank you. >> With one wording change in the partnership agreement, it says school district of Mount Bor instead of Mount Bor area school district. >> In the actual document. We can just make that. >> Yes, happy to. Thank you. I apologize. Who made that motion? >> Leam made the motion. >> Sorry.
023All right. Discussion items. Committee member reports education. Um Oh, well that was me because it was last month. So, >> we met May 4th and we were fortunate enough that uh Sarah organized a um the middle school English language teachers to attend to give us presentations. So Abby Landcraft, Abby Morris, Julia Pratt and Stephanie, Paul Kaine and they discussed the ELA resources that they have been piloting. Um they talked about their process of deciding on the SABS my perspectives. Um they've already been piloting it and implementation will start next year. Um it was as always it's really nice to have teachers come. So thank you Sarah for organizing that. Huge thanks to them for taking time out of their schedules to come to our meeting. Uh we talked about the homebound instruction policy 342.2. Um
024it was mostly just updates based on DPI requirements and updating statutory references. Um we also talked about the school age parent program. Um I'm not sure that we even had much discussion on that but that was also moved to the full board. We also talked about policy 425 full-time open enrollment. Uh during curriculum updates, we talked about the family reading night which um Sarah shared about earlier tonight. Uh she also shared in terms of grading and assessment that some of our teachers have already started working with educational consultant that we brought in to help with um standards based grading. And then belonging as we talked about um in our previous meeting that team has been working on um goals and they've been working with two different consultants about what school um staff professional learning will
025happen next week and or excuse me next year. And Brian's taking ideas back to the belonging committee and maybe it'll come back to us at some point. I think that's about it. It was a if I remember correctly, it was a full meeting to the very last moment. And then let's see, village of Mount Adam is not here. I don't know if anybody else has any updates otherwise we can move on to long range facility planning. >> Oh, did you guys on the agenda it says community coalition? >> Oh, sorry. I missed the community coalition. Um, >> first of all, I don't know where the committee or the mission statement for that committee is. That's a good question. I would also say that um I'm not sure that it's on hold is the right word
026but because there is a new chamber president and now we have a new uh village administrator I think part of your task will be like they met very regularly um and it was um well attended and they had agenda but like it is kind of fizzled out and I think it just needs to be revamped. >> I understand that things are in a state of flux. I did reach out to Allison and I do I have been working on some initiatives with her with other organizations so we know who each other is. >> Sure. >> Um and I have not met the new village um administrator. So um and I'm going to um I'm sort of moving forward a little bit. I will be missing the um the next um park, recreation and forestry meeting,
027but I will pay attention to the um the recording of the meeting and I'll come back with a report on that. >> Dr. SL, how do you want us to proceed with the community coalition? Do you want to reach out to the leaders? Do you want Liz to >> I'd be happy to. I mean, I realize my history might want to like actually have a week on the job first on July 1st. I read that in the paper here over the weekend. Um, and then of course Allison, this was really born out of the good work of the chamber. Um, so I think I connected here with Alison. >> I mean, Allison knows it's coming. >> Yeah. >> I sent her I just sort of reached out to her, sent her an email and said,
028"Hey, we have this thing. I don't know exactly what we're doing, but let's form a vision together." Um, so she she knows um and I and I know she's she's new. She's trying to get her stride and she's doing a great job so far. I think >> I appreciate that. >> I can at least dig up an old agenda like there were uh common goals that were identified that like were relevant to each and then kind of were addressed ongoing, but I'm sure that they can be updated once it's a once we know once who's up. Yes. Yeah. But I could share that with you. >> All right. Now, moving out long range facility. >> Well, good evening again everyone. Uh you see a very friendly face here on the uh computer screen and uh
029so grateful to have you here tonight, Molly. Molly is one of the leaders uh for CD Smith. uh who has been just doing a terrific job of helping us get to a great launching point uh for this project. And the board members you'll see attached to tonight's agenda item, a document that Molly has created uh that just kind of goes over a few things. Uh Molly, I'm just going to turn my computer around so that you can see at least uh many of our board members here. Uh >> hi everyone. >> Yeah. And then let me turn up your volume here. Uh, we'll let you take it away. By the way, I am recording this if that's okay, just so that way others can see it later on. >> Yeah, no worries. Is it okay
030if I share my screen to just share that construction update? >> Please do. >> All right. Hope everyone can see this. All right. Um, perfect. So, yeah, this is our construction update for May. Construction activities at the primary center continue to move along. These are some photos I took last week, so they're already a little out of date, but things that have been happening on site are mostly site demolition work. Here in this photo, if folks can see it, is that back bus loop. So, they removed all the asphalt. The playground was removed. Um, we have fight sight fencing set up on the south side of the building. On the north side of the building, our excavators started removing top soil and forming the path for the new bus loop that'll go over there. A
031lot of tree removal. And then, as you can see in this photo, we have different equipment that is mobilized on the site as well. So recent activities like I said removal of top soil on the north and south side of site, tree removal, asphalt demolition. Some of the upcoming activities that we have, we started with foundation excavations this week. Um just to give folks an idea, those are starting right right here and we're going to move counterclockwise. So that's exciting. um crews have started on site and an upcoming one will be the geothermal coordination once we get submitts approved and that'll be going in where the old baseball diamond was. Safety is obviously a big concern and a top priority for us. So, a couple safety items, we've increased sight fencing, added some um snow
032fencing to separate the community and the pedestrians from the construction areas. Our signage around on the fences have now gone up. Things that say like no entrance, hardhead area only, those are all now on the perimeter of the site. If anyone ever sees any safety concerns, please bring them up to me and we um love to address them right away. Some behind the scenes things that are happening, submittal and review processes continue to move forward. We have priority to like our hot ticket items, ones that have long lead times, steel, pre-cast. We're working on coordinating those to make sure we meet that August delivery timeline. And that involves a lot of coordination with other trades like the electrical contractor to make sure inbed locations are all laid out and we can get everything fabricated on
033time. And then an update from our last owner architect contractor meeting. There are some discussions for future facility improvements, mostly MEP items like boiler replacement, chiller upgrades, uh public address system in the other schools that we're looking to add in to the construction. And then with talk of these trees getting demoed, I know whenever someone sees a a tree coming down, it can be a cause for alarm, but there's been discussions of getting a community group together so that students can be involved in the future landscape planning and um there could be projects like with Eagle Scouts of prairie restoration or tree planting with the students. So there's an opportunity to get the community involved with that which I think is really cool. Those are the main things coming up on site. Did anyone have
034any questions or things I could address while I'm on the call? >> Doesn't look like it. >> Super super job here. In fact, today um we uh met with our friends at Bright Architect to begin thinking about furniture for the new elementary school. There's a very lead time on that. >> Dave, I don't mean to put you on the spot, but since you're so kind as to be here tonight on your night off, uh uh do you want to talk a little bit about uh the steps that are being taken in this regard? No, >> this is this is this is candy for me. I love watching uh all the work go on at the at the site. um excited to see foundations going to the ground and things like that. Uh yeah, it's a
035they're they seem to be right on top of their game and and things are progressing along nicely. >> Dave did a super job and I can just sing your praises for a minute. We understood that the village um was going to be communicating to some of our neighbors some sidewalk um extensions that were to occur along that second street and with the change in leadership that they just got missed and and those things happen. Bless their hearts. They work so hard over there at the village. You know what Dave did? He knocked on the doors himself and he said, "Hey, I just wanted to let you know um this is what's happening. Here's here's how it's going to play out." And I can't tell you how many people I heard say how much they appreciate
036the personal touch you gave there, Dave. That's who you are. And no, no detail goes unnoticed. So, thank you for that. Truly remarkable. With that, we're happy to open it up to any questions you have. >> I have a question. Um, I'm just going to bring it out there that I would like to continue to work with the sustainability committee to see if we can try to get more community involvement in the prairie project or the native plan. Um, and I just know Patty was involved. I'm going to throw you in here, Patty. um on on our farm. She knows how fun it is to spread prairie seeds. Yes. Um and when we so Patty helped me out on a project on our farm that we put into a conservation area um and it is
037native planting and um we made a party out of it with um just broadcasting seeds by hand um in May. Um, so I'm just really excited to see that development and um, less mowing for date. So it's a win-win. >> One of the things that I did when I built a high school down in Jainsville 20 years ago was um, started a prairie restoration and we did that with the help of an Eagle Scout candidate. And what a great thing because then they can continue to help us nurture it and make it even better every year. So, I'm going to put a plea into our community uh that if there's any aspiring uh scout uh either I don't think they call it girl scouts anymore. It's still scouts. >> Thank you. Pardon? Thank you. But
038whatever their top I think it's gold award. Um and then uh there's the Eagle Scout Award within Scouting of America. I'm going to encourage someone to do the same thing. Um because I would love for us to have an outdoor lab for our kids to learn right there and get some benches in there. >> It'd be a real treat. And then to this point about the trees, I some of those trees in front of the primary center had seen better days. In fact, some of them are going to die. So, the truth be told is that we and somewhere in the middle of our roadway where the new uh bus loop is, we have had so many thoughtful community members reach out and say, "When you guys get ready to do this part of the
039project, won't you let us know?" Uh so to build off of Molly's thoughtful point, we would like to have not only parents and community members, uh business partners per perhaps, but especially students because it's so important for them to see that not only are we taking but we're going to more than double in our giving. We've got to we've got to make up for that. So I'm grateful that he said something like that, but we've got some work to do and that will come towards the end of the project more so than than now, but just putting it out there. Well, and we have three or four families in the district that either are landscapers or own green houses or whatever that maybe can hook us up with some discounts on some new trees. Love
040it. >> But we end where we began board members and that's in gratitude to our new friends at CD Smith. Things are going along smoothly and that's a result of Molly's exceptional leadership and the partnership here with David. Really good things happening here. Looking forward to next month's update. >> Thanks. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thanks, Steve. Have a good night, everyone. >> You too. >> Sarah Straa, you have several information. We're all going all in order. Thanks Steve. Appreciate it. Okay. So to support our learning and growth goal, we talk about the academic development of our students especially as they go on to postsecary opportunities. The first indicator that we look at is that post high school experience. This is a newer aspect of our report. We got it in last year. So
041we just have the last two years worth of data for the class of 2024, the class of 2025. And this data is collected by our school council staff and Carrie Wiki. And they collect this through their senior exits meetings. Um looking at where they send transcripts, all those kinds of pieces. Um you can see here they're pretty even. However, when we really look at the total number of students, um the class of 2024 had about 200 students and our current class of 2000 or 2025 has about 165 to 270 students. Um numbers remain relatively consistent from year to year. Um which is surprising, right? we have 30 to 40 less students especially when you look at that technical technical or college two-year college piece um 36 and 34. So having that option for students and
042students taking that option of that tech pathway um has been consistent um but we do see that drop then and the number of students choosing to go to university which may seem more natural as we have less students in the class of 25. When we go on to the next indicator, um looking at the percent of seniors who will meet those college board recommendations and looking at remed remedial courses that students may have to take uh based on their placement exam. Um in the past, we haven't shown the English remediation numbers because we've always been below that six student threshold. Uh so our our data never pops up on your remediation report but our data has popped up on the math remediation report and you can see over the past um 8 to 8 to
043nine years um each year number of students who take those course those um math assessments and then the number of students who are identified for remediation and then break that down into the percent of that graduating class compared to all of the W systems on the following account. The green indicates where we're doing better than the students across the state or across those I shouldn't say state necessarily across the students who are taking the test through the system. Um we're moving in the positive direction I would say with having less towards the past two years um than the total number of community system. That's nice to see. And um when we when we think about where our students are are going in their first year and then that that persistence piece, there's a couple data
044points here. So we have a series of three figures. Figure 1, figure two and figure three. Each figure looks at the percent of students who are enrolled um at any time during the first year of um potential college enrollments. Figure one is the institution type. So that public versus private institutions. You can see the the color the color legend at the bottom where we have more students choosing to go to public institutions. Then figure two institution level. So whether it's a 4-year or a 2-year institution, again uh we see that more students are going to a 4-year um it's increasing slightly over time and we are seeing a slight decrease in the 2-year choice. And then figure three is the institution location. So again instate or out of state majority of our students do stay
045stay in state. Um and we have seen some fluctuation over time. Um and it's been inversely related when compared to out of state institutions that we see there. Um overall public institution public institutions are are the most common as as we can see. Um majority of students remain in state and class of 2025 107 students enrolled in state compared to 22 out of state which is interesting. And last but not well somewhat last but not least persistence. So persistence means um the percentage or number of students who from freshman year persist or move on to sophomore year. Um so we have again that persistence data broken down by institution type institution level and institution location. Our persistence rate overall for Moram students is 86%. So that's from going from freshman year to sophomore year which
046is higher than the national average which is about 78%. So 8% 8 percentage points higher than the national average. >> And is that who returned to the same school or just any school? >> Any school? >> Yeah. So included. Um and then the last figure figure seven uh just shows us that um time to graduation within a six-year time period. You can see at the bottom um on the x-axis we had each graduating class. So we think about it 6 years ago that was the class of 2019. So we think about the class of 2019 finishing up now in 2024 2025. We can see the amount of years for that class and all the other classes as well. And overall more students do graduate in four years and then the next highest has been 5
047years. You can see there as well. So overall this does paint a nice picture of what's happening with our students, where they're going, what they're doing. Um, one piece I didn't add in this report, but um, when we look at our national current house data, very very high number of students do go on to Madison College. That's our that's our highest. And then the followup is really Madison number students. So, and the rest I said a little bit. I'm curious actually a question somewhere. I'm sure you or something. >> Yes. >> Does anybody have any questions for Sarah? >> I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this, but just to confirm, I'm following how the numbers relate to each other. So like, so the 60% who finished within six years, 60% of the whole
048class of 2018 and 2019. um 60% no it would be 60% of those who are enrolled because they don't keep they only track students who enter into the university system so it's enter the military is that what your question is I guess it's more I guess I was just trying to so% of those that start >> I think I know >> okay so it's not so it's so if 75% of our students go on to college 60% of the 7 to five finish in >> that's my understanding because our student tracker wouldn't be tracking those students they didn't enter into a two or four year >> so it's more like I mean I don't I'm making up numbers but more like 50% of the whole class then probably >> right it's only 60% of the
04975 who went to the >> Yeah I would say that's fair >> okay >> I mean I'm sure that's not the right number but >> Mhm. Yeah. Okay, that's what I was just trying to >> understand. Got to follow up on on Carly. I think my claim was going the same way because the data says there's 86% of we're going into or we're persistent so they're going into second year. Correct. >> And then the percentage that's graduating is 60. So my wonder when I looked at this data before was okay, what's happening to that 25%, what are they doing? Have they going for 2 years and maybe saying this isn't for them? Are they going 3 years and saying this and hopefully they're not doing that? Um or they still going to school after 6
050years. So there's kind of some unknowns in this data set. >> Correct. >> Um but for sure it's interesting that for the most part I I feel our kids are doing as well or better than some of the other districts maybe. Yeah, I'm trying to think of some actual information there that I can provide. I don't have any right now. I'm searching my brain, but thinking through the what ifs, wondering about so this is graduation. Some students may do like an apprentichip. So, so they may enter institution. Um, Stephen and I clarified this with the National House because the wonder was when we look at full-time enrollment or sorry, first time enrollment or enrollment freshman year that persistence data. They don't necessarily have to be full-time students either. So it could be a student taking
051a course or two and they're still counted in that overall number in the first first figures one through three but they may not then be in this graduation guide because they might have gone through a program to receive a diploma as well. So there's that that that's a factor. I don't know what that percentage is but that would play a part in students not being this number but maybe an earlier number too. This is where maybe our I know we've kind of talked about this before where we have like a after they're five five years graduate get a little survey out there and see what >> what they've done. >> Yeah. Every year obvious try to get recent graduates, right? >> Exactly. >> The closer the better to try to keep them engaged. >> Yeah.
052>> Hearing it from them is always better. Perfect. Thank you, sir. Nicely >> done, sir. Gather business partnerships. >> Okay, this presentation everybody is my favorite to give. Um, okay. So, tonight I'm I'm excited to share uh this presentation. If you'll remember last year, I talked a lot about um symbiotic relationships and how we can better improve um that process of gathering sponsorships and partnerships and making sure that it's a truly street. Um, and this year I'm excited to share that we've had a good number of partnerships stay on and continue to evolve, which is so neat. And none of this would really be possible without the board, as well as our staff and our students. Um, that's what keeps these companies coming back and staying engaged, which is so neat to see, and I'm
053just I'm thankful to be a part of this. Um, it's just a really cool aspect of my my position here. So, I'll start out with a couple. I'm just going to cherry pick some of these pieces that I feel cuz it's a really long um report, but that's what I'll keep at this report. Anyways, so Upland Hills Health, this is one of the the strongest examples of the strategic partner who first rolled on with us as a state scoreboard sponsor, which was unique in itself cuz that was so revolutionary. Um, and they've evolved to a true workforce uh development partner, which is neat. Um, so beyond their their physical time in helping us to uh shape the CN program, they've also donated, as you guys know, the CNES, which even though they've used they come
054out to do 3 to 4,000 grand a month, which is wild. And then um they also helped in our launch of the IV program as you know and they hosted a regional leadership summit last year um still in this school year but last year uh which hosted approximately 30 kids from over six school districts which was really cool and they had healthcare professionals but also they they paid for a national super which is neat and that costs about $5,000 now that they paid for lunch. Um, so it's the little things. Um, they're still obviously a scoreboard sponsor. And then they're also continuing their sports physical like partnership this year. If you'll remember, that was kind of cool. Last year, was I think it was $25 per person, which sounds like they're making money, but they're
055they're actually losing money on this, which is really neat. Sometimes for kids, um, their physical is kind of that limiting factor on whether they can get into sports or not, which is another piece of belonging, um, getting involved in sports. And so the fact that they're going to come in two days this year shows that we show that we cared last year um, and we made it worth their while. Um, and they just love giving back to our students um, and families. So that'll be really cool. It is $30 this year. They went up five bucks, but uh I think that's still so um again that partnership just demonstrates that they not only see themselves as sponsors, but also as educational partners. Um and they're working to create that workforce pipeline, which is really neat.
056Uh another organization and partner that I'd like to highlight is O'Reilly Auto Parts, which is so neat. They reached out on a whim. um possibly because of one of my meals, but I'm not I'm not entirely sure. But they they wanted to give us funding and when I immediately reached out, they were like, "Oh my gosh, we're human." Um and so investigating more into this, he had the individual, one of the directors there was really successful, a lot of talks. Um cool. uh he had wanted to give to two other school districts, but they just didn't have a position that you guys so kindly created um to really facilitate that that funding stream, which is neat. Um and something that I'm hearing a decent amount of um but there's just no like direct line in
057to give. Uh so that was really interesting. And so he they were able to give not only funds for um tools and things like that, but they also came out to the class and they they talked about the individual tools and how you use them and they talked about like, okay, you're working on this project. Here's what tools you'll need. I'll drop them off next week, which is really cool. Um and it was really neat because they also had one of our former graduates come out and talk to students so that the kids could see like here's what your next step could be. here's what your role could be in the future. Um, and they also became a stadium scoreboard partner. So, that's really neat. Um, it wasn't just about the tools, it's about the
058the conversations that they're having and they feel fulfilled uh in that partnership, which is neat. Um, something that really echoed all of this great work was my day at business day. If you guys have ever been um if you haven't, I had never been even though I'd been in the private sector prior, but it's basically like state ed or a conference um for businesses in Madison and David County. And it was wild cuz I don't think I'd ever been to anything like that. And just to set the tone, the first question that was asked of me that day was how liberal are you? um which really um I said no I'm not independent so it was really neat um because the people that invited us there or me um were the people who g who
059gave us a grant for welding something and they just gave us things to help our kids well so like scrap metal and things like that to Um, but during the day I felt so fortunate because one of the main themes throughout the day was education and how organizations would like to work per se with uh school districts either that or control what's going on in school districts which was kind of cool and kind of irritate the same time. Um, but it's interesting because Wisconsin, they kept relaying the same message over and over and over again. But Wisconsin is emerging as a manufacturing and skilled trades hub. Um, meaning that our kids will then go out to across the nation to be the like the leaders in this like manufacturing skill trades. And then employers are
060increasingly see themselves as educational partners and businesses want a clear pathway to engage with students and also give funding which is really neat. Um and another reason why positions like the one that I have or partial partial positions that I have um are so important and then workforce shortages are accelerating collaboration efforts. So for example um the C program um yeah so I mean we have a youth apprentichip program which is phenomenal and serves 42 kids right now across healthcare automotive agricultural banking etc and that is phenomenal. Craig's so great to work with in that regard. Um and not only that for example kids get the chance to go to Thindorf. Um, they had their first ever construction career expo this year, which is neat cuz I I hail from growth prior to this. So,
061and then hands-on experiences. So, in one of the grants that we just gave for middle school, teched just uh is going to be working on carpentry, electrical, and things like that. So, setting the stages for high school um and those partnerships like with O'Reilly. Um, another note like separate theme uh is mental health and wellness partnerships. You'll if you'll remember or if you were part of saw earlier this afternoon or this evening. Um Brian mentioned our partnership with Journey Mental Health which is key. I kind of wish that Scott was here because he would love this. Um, that grant is pivotal, the state violence prevention grant that Brian mentioned, because we won't end up doing any of the documentation on the business side for finances, which is one thing that Scott and I spend a
062really long time doing. This means that we can use our time and energy way more efficiently. Uh and in the end we can take on more grants per se because other people are doing that work for us which is really pivotal. Um and that means that we can help and do more things. And so this grant uh will end up helping us with expand our mental health screening, school-based therapeutic supports, trauma-informed interventions, staff training, and and more. Um and I just thought that was such a a neat and pivotal uh relationship. And then we replicated that relationship with Simon's farm who were going to be, if you probably already heard about this, but we won a grant that would allow our students in the transition center to actually go out and learn agriculture and greenhouse
063work and actually have tent chickens, which is pretty cool. Um, yeah. And then in the same vein of mental health and wellness at Rotary, they kind of ears up. and they kindly allowed us to showcase Crumble and his great work. Um, and so Cody was also there as was Brian and they just talked about all the great work that has gone into mental health and wellness and how Crumbl has really um detailed that work really nicely. Um, and then Rotary kindly partnered with us to support funding Crumble for this next year as uh awesome school safety funds are uh completed. as of this this July. So that'll be super important there. Um in terms of strategic infrastructure, Gerber Leisure Products, I remember when Steve and I went and pitched a sponsorship with them and this
064is an example where not everybody wants to get sponsored and that's okay. It opens up the door like I've always said with the guide, it's a talking point. It's a jumping point. Um so it opened up the door for them to really give us a um increased discount for our structure saving our social $36,000 which is great. Um so maybe they don't want to be a partner now but maybe they will be in the future. So it just opens that door there and then chambership the or sorry the chamber of commerce was hog in their partnership. They allowed me to go to their chamber of business advocacy committee. Um, they meet in the back of the chamber. I didn't even know that was a room, but >> I call it the sweat shop. Sweat shop.
065>> Yeah, it was kind of like a sweat lodge. >> I didn't sound that old. >> Yeah. Um, but they they helped create a district where like they helped us identify maybe a a sticking point that they had which was they didn't know what would be most helpful to donate when. And so that's important because in my role as a grant writer I can sometimes use those donations as a match. So sometimes grants require you put some money down, put your chips in um in order to ensure that that grant is going to be very successful. Um and so we created a wish list out of this which is really neat. And while it wasn't super successful this year, I think we have a good idea of how to implement this further next year because
066we also have um a corporate giving timeline that better aligns with how corporate giving works after our communication with the Chamber of Business Advocacy Committee. Um yeah, because it's not the same timeline as schools, which makes sense. Um, another exciting development this year was our partnership with uh WMTV, so channel 15 and our ability to professionally market the IV program. So cool. We went back and forth a lot and um that was because they weren't sure if we qualified as a 501c3, but they gave us the opportunity to do so with convention. Um, technically you have to apply for a 50c3 status, but the fact that we are a nonprofit, we made the case and they accepted it, which meant that we got free commercial production, which is worth thousands of dollars, and then ultimately,
067um, we received a lot of free commercials. Uh, so just read off a couple of stats that I just got this morning. Um, we got an additional 80 commercials on WMTV above and beyond our 110 television commercials. Um, and then that's an estimated value of $6,000 for those additional commercials, which is fantastic cuz we only put in I say only, but still a good chunk $3,500 into this um opportunity. Uh in that total we also uh did a digital campaign which is social media. And so we our goal was to get two 200,000 impressions and we achieved 244,000 impressions which is 22% above our goal in actuality. Um I will detail I have a lot of great results and data points that are pretty cool. Um yeah and then sponsorship growth. Just an FYI just
068to to follow up um with our usual suspects. Um thanks to our sponsors including but not limited to uh Weedman Lawn Care, Upland Health, Vortex Optics, First Choice Dental, Quartz Health Solutions, Blogger Construction, O'Reilly Auto Parts, and Family Dental Care. Um we have a projected $28,000 um in sponsorship revenue. Um for next year we got this year $26,500 and then our first year in 2024 2025 we had $19,750 in revenue. So you can see that we're slowly climbing up there but it is consistent. So that's fantastic. And then I did not mention but I meant to mention the fast forward or the current teaching excellence endowment which is really neat. Um and that kind of in alignment with our our financial impact and strategic infrastructure um piece. It recognizes two teachers for their excellent efforts.
069Um and this is again one of those KUR funding opportunities which is really neat and aligns with last year's data that um you know the majority of your your funds that you get in or is protected to receive um per national data uh is from only a few of your donors. So the majority of the funds that you're getting in from a few of those donors. Um, and just to summarize, yeah, the biggest takeaways from this year, uh, is that we're building the systems how we we wanted to build them and we're building them intentionally. Um, and our partners feel like they're getting a good back and forth. What questions do you guys have based on all those stories? feel like you need a ticker outside your office of how much money can come in
070just like the giant thermometer maybe. >> Well, it's not just the money but I was thinking boy you were talking of how many more partnerships we have >> than before you were here because you have it is your job. So if someone has time they're not just like asking time it's dedicated time and it shows this is huge. I stopped counting at $1.75 million in 24 monthsish. Uh and it continues and I'm just so grateful because it's not just about partnership is viewed very differently under the lens of all things. It's about not only making certain that our students receive something in return, but that we are giving to that relationship as well. Goodness gracious. I thought that article in the newspaper this past week about YA was just fantastic and there's something in every
071edition of the newspaper that just talks about those relationships that are being forged under your exceptional leadership. Thank you. >> I did I sent I sent out an email last week. And so we all we all got an email from WASPY um or I did um last week seeking nominations for their business honor role. And I don't know that that's something that we've really participated in in the past that I'm aware of, but but it I think it could be another another way to help recognize some of those those partnerships. It sounds like um the nomination process just needs either either or both superintendent approval and board approval or board approval of who gets nominated. But I think it's something we should we should look at. >> I think that's fantastic idea. That's a great
072way to >> I also just wanted to say you know like the positive unintended consequences of these partnerships for like the students is so amazing. like we said already the youth apprenticeship like employment and placement has drastically improved but also um you know being in DECA I look at it really from that side too and one of the huge aspects of that is getting to work with businesses and create solutions to problems and if we didn't have those businesses that were willing to participate I would have never made it to the international stage which you know like I wrote my college essay about that like it's a huge part of my resume so these unintended consequences that you are causing because of like your ability to connect to these businesses and grow this program really
073does play a huge role in the future of these students and everything too. So, thank you. >> Okay, so since our meeting is recorded, you can capture and put that that's a huge selling point. >> Thank you all. Thank you. Thank you. All righty. Action items. Scroll. We only have one. Um Brian, we have our policy 721 safe and helpful facilities. Obviously doesn't have for Sarah, so we can't vote on it, but we want to talk about it. >> Yeah, you bet. So, this was um from saw a few months ago. Um and so we've been kind of waiting for the opportunity to bring it in front of you. Um it started out with changing the schools to facilities, right? Because we want safe and helpful everything we have within the district. Um and really
074there are a lot just got removed and it will be put in admin right because it was all policies and procedures. Um the first paragraph is kind of just a rewarding of the the paragraph that was deleted. Um, and then it was just kind of updating um, more generalizing. It had really specific people in there um, or things that were non-existent anymore. So, um, and then we made it more general, right? Safety coordinator became director of student services. Um, we just took out like it's just about state laws, right? We're following all state laws and then everything else below will go to admit rag. um it it doesn't go away but it just changes right and so all those changes were made in there as well um whose responsibility and then the procedures and that
075will yeah that is in the drag right so that's kind of the changes that we made with that >> I already went through it and saw so you're good >> anybody in the very first paragraph Um it says a secure environment for all activities on student property. Is that supposed to be school? >> Yep. >> Does it change that? >> I have a question. Um so we talk about safety. Uh I'm assuming that's physical safety. Um but what about digital safety? Yeah, this is really like the um this policy is like being helpful too is like the the like the physical safety to make sure that like our we're um like the air quality is good. The there's no broken items like on the football court, you know, field like that. things are kept in
076a health healthy and safer way for students and for staff. >> Andrew's question speaks to where he wants to go with his studies post high school. And I'm so grateful that you'd asked that question, Andrew, because in reality, we actually have another policy that's not facilities related, which this one is more facilities related, but it does get to the technical side. So, thank you for even asking both. >> Yeah, there's so many different ways you can take safe and health, right? So yeah, >> do you I don't we don't need to go over because the stuff's going in the admin, right? But most of my questions were just around like the stuff on the second page. I was there's well one it references the building services coordinator and I wasn't sure if that is like
077particular >> but that's okay different than the director because it references both the director of buildings and grounds and then it also references building coordinator and so I wasn't sure those are different people located >> and then okay Okay, that actually I think answers my other question which was like the first paragraph says the responsibility for developing it is with the director of buildings and grounds and then the second paragraph references student services and I was like who was in charge? Um but I think knowing that that's what that is helps clarify that. And then the only other thing is that like I noticed that it says in five see dispersion of committee but then we struck out the whole committee and so I wasn't sure if that is there still a safety committee. >>
078Yeah. >> There's not really a safety committee for facilities. >> We have all safety. >> It's all safety. Yeah. So we >> So maybe that one thing we don't understand. >> Yeah. So this would be that >> we don't have a safety coordinator but many of the responsibilities are part of that committee that is even part of an admin rag. That is what we call a u >> an SOP. >> SOP. Thank you. standard operating procedures for job description. Thank you. >> Yeah, you're welcome. I knew I could see it. >> I was thinking about another acronym that started with that. >> Well, that that would be my only advice on that is just I in in the one page we talk about a safety coordinator title, director of buildings and crafts and building services
079coordinator. So like whatever the consistency is >> we could get that >> one title in there. >> Yeah. But >> we could be consistent. >> Yeah. Otherwise thank you. >> No um just thinking about environmental monitor monitoring. Sorry, that's um that is something that we had been doing a little bit with the um sustainability committee on our wish list is to have uh fair manage her quality set up with the district back when the EPA was funding those kind of initiatives. >> Thank you. See you next month. I I do not believe we have any additional citizens comments future agenda items. If there's anything that you would like to talk about, please let Dr. I know and our schedule of next meetings. Dr. Is there anything to note? >> Just a note and a mistake
080I made with my weekly update. I had our second meeting of the month of June to be the 22nd when in fact it's the 15th. Uh so please forgive my error and thank you to President which one should I go to? >> You can have both if you want really no but it will be the 15th of June. And I want to just again acknowledge that our last meeting of the year with our students uh could be as soon as June 1st. So we're grateful to both of you again for your outstanding leadership. Um now if I seem to remember right you have graduation after that right? Don't worry, we'll be there. Awesome. >> I'm ready to shake some hands. >> All right. 11 close session. Contemplated close session per section 19.851Deating or negotiating the
081purchasing of public properties, the investing of public funds, or conducting other specified public business whenever competitive or bargaining reasons require in close session. C. considering inclusive, promotion, compensation or empowerment valuation data of any public employee over which the governmental body has juris jurisdiction or exercises responsibility to immediate vote. Liz >> here. >> Leah, >> yes. >> Tom, >> Yes. And I am also a yes. It is 7:50. How about five minutes to come in? How you go?