001start yet we got five minutes six minutes keep talking okay you can start yet you just dropped it e e e I se fory sit in there what's wrong I don't know do we have enough seats it out paper all right now we can go I love it good evening welcome to tonight's regular board meeting I see some of you did not get the memo to wear green this evening like to call this meeting to order we met official compliance for all notifications roll call please Kaylor here Sarah Schubert mcone here Ed Gallagher here Nick Olson here Steve Olson here schacher here Laura gapski excused all right at this time would you all please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance the United States of America and to the Republic which it stands one nation under
002God indivisible with liberty and justice for all this meeting is a meeting of the Board of Education held in public for the purpose of conducting the school district's business and is not to be considered a public community meeting there is a time for comments by members of the public during the meeting as indicated on the agenda members of the public wishing to address the board on any of the topics included on tonight's agenda may do so by signing up on the public comment signup sheet by the entrance prior to the start of the meeting the board requests refraining from making any comments involving personally identifiable information about students St staff or Administration should be respectful focused on the items being considered by the board and will be restricted to 3 minutes in length do we
003have any members of the public wishing to speak this evening we shall move on disposition of minutes from February 10 2025 to approve second motion is second to approve the disposition of minutes from February 10 2025 any discussion hearing none all those in favor signify by saying I opposed motion carries next is the report of the superintendent we have some new informational items this evening we do so I have principal staria here um I'll let you do your introductions tonight to start off your update from Cooper have a clicker sorry oh thank you uh I'm actually have Lisa Baker up here as well uh she is going for her admin license so she's kind of been shadowing me and collaborating with me on multiple things the this year so she's going to come on up
004and kind of we're going to take team the presentation a little bit welcome welcome Lisa been doing a phenomenal job she's part of the leadership program that the district is offering um so getting a wealth not through through the district as well so I'll pass it over to you and we're just going to kind of take team is it right hand button to proceed okay thanks for having me I'm currently a third grade teacher at Cooper um as she mentioned I've been um shadowing Christine and she's considered my cooperating administrator so I'm having a really great experience so far and appreciate it very much so School celebrations um our fifth graders at the beginning of February fortunately enough got to attend a stem program in Del called starving so stem meaning um science technology engineering
005and math it's 25 hours of handson experience when they're there with the idea to get the students thinking like Engineers mathematicians and scientists and take the learning that they've done hands on back to their own School the very neat part in our connection with Christine is she uh wrote the grant for our students to be able to do that and we were the first Wisconsin school correct yep so I reached out to them during the summer to kind of see if we could be a part of it I I previously worked at pedmont in Deluth they participated uh every year and I thought that it was an amazing opportunity I was able to go with our fifth graders then and see what it was all about so then this summer I I reached out to
006kind of just see if there was any way and um we were very fortunate to be able to get in and shout out to embridge who actually paid for the transportation because 5 days of busing getting up there and back is is gets to be a little pricey as well so they helped out with that uh it was an amazing opportunity for fifth graders we're hoping that it can continue it will also uh depend on availability uh for what they have next year they obviously focus on Minnesota schools so if they have availability and if we're able to get the funding continued we would definitely love to continue to do it our fifth grade teachers loved it too so it was a awesome opportunity for our students here are some of the photos just three
007photos we wanted to incorporate you can see how happy they are and working together um I think the teamwork is a great aspect there's leadership opportunities built in that problem solving so just a really NE Hands-On opportunity I want to talk about our PBIS celebrations so being new to Cooper I just think it's one place that they really need a shout out um Lori Thompson our counselor is truly fabulous at getting to know all of the students and I see her in my classroom frequently um she is talking to them collaborating with them but when we have these PBIS celebrations the beauty of it every student in our school um is a part of it is included and I just want to share with you something that we did in February so the picture on
008the left I say we literally rolled out the red carpet for the kids it was very fun but every classroom was there to celebrate together a name got picked um all of the kids had a chance um schoolwide to earn tickets and when your name was chosen to represent your class you went up front and they got to um hit a little Nerf Arrow at the at the different color hearts so whatever heart or area you hit on the map represented your prize so there was a lot of cheering right were you going to win the class reer float party or the extra recess um one of their favorites is fancy lunch I don't know if you've ever heard about that but they really feel like royalty when you get a fancy lunch um the
009lights are slightly dimmed there's candle at dinner there may or may not be a little Kool-Aid um but they served by teach they are just so in fact on a side note like when my class wins incentives they're like we want fancy lunch and I was like well that's kind of a mson thing but we can have fancy lunch in our classroom so I just I just really have to say though that the kids feel really great and when the student is up there um taking that chance for their class like they are backed by everybody they're cheering and it's just just a really fun atmosphere uh our act 20 roll out so that obviously in January we had a district testing and we were rolling with the punches of this new act 20 roll
010out and that looked like for all of us we had the chance to do a lot of collaboration during staff development time in February um I feel like it was really successful the communication was really clear Kate Tes visited our school more than a few times was always available to answer questions as well as Christine answering our questions um and we'll talk a little bit more about our parent collaboration in a couple slides um the other things Subs subs for teachers and support staff that's been going really well um we've had a shortage at times so at the beginning of the year that was one of the concerns that I had struggles that we had was Finding finding Subs at the beginning of the year and especially for those support staff if they were always
011trying to find Subs to cover those um was extremely hard at the beginning of the year slowly but surely we started to get subs who were teachers that were willing to step into those sub roles in the PA professionals and it has made a huge difference there's been many times that they've picked up the jobs and they understand the kids they understand the routines now so it has been a huge celebration for the entire school that they're that they're stepping in on that any questions about that part some challenges you will see that act 20 is also on this slide um we we take personal responsibility for collaborating with parents and having them understand what this means for them their child or communication um parents of some children did receive um information about their child's
012personal reading plans so based on um specific data that we look at if that child is not having reading Prof proficiency at the 25th percentile they are notified and they're they will get a letter as a teacher I will say we prepared for that at fall conferences as well we let them know that these changes were coming this is something in the next you know coming months that you may hear about um and especially kind of taking note we we know our data of who those children may be so that we can communicate that very clearly but it does bring questions it's new to everybody and Christine may want to speak more to that but just just rolling out you know we're still working through it you can plan and prepare as much as you
013possibly can and a huge shout out to Kate Tes who did a ton of the work behind the scenes to make it as smooth as possible for the teachers and for principles to be able to roll that out but it's still just a a learning curve this year to for communicating with families and explaining what we're going to do and and kind of putting people's minds at ease we we obviously want the personal reading FS to feel good and parents to be involved and to be a part of it so we want them to feel good about what we're communicating to them and what we're doing for their children next would be planning preparation and unknowns for new staff what we mean by that so a large number of lak Superior Elementary staff collaborated with
014um went into Cooper's building this year so I think Christin and I talked a lot about this but it's almost like when you're when you're new at first you don't even know what you don't know um we're we're navigating that new territory as a building it's going as well as it as it can go we we laughed about the little and big things but there are there are just certain things like we don't we don't know perhaps where to locate something if that comes up um despite Christine welcoming people and I know she specifically visited all of our classrooms at the beginning of the year before school even started but we're still coming together as a new sta so is that comment just based off of being in a new school or is that a
015comment of like they're so new in the district they don't know what's going on the I don't believe any teachers are new to the district none of them were new to the district when they came to Cooper it's just coming into the yeah it's kind of I had said it's similar to how I felt when when Aon leers left right like I kind came into an amazing leader he he did a phenomenal job at Cooper there was many things that I couldn't even wrap my mind around because it's you got to live it um that's why we had also talked about how that my first year I said I'm going to keep everything the same way Aaron had it so that I can understand what he had and really dive in each I feel like
016it's each season right now we're into the springtime where we're talking about okay how are we going to talk about classes for next year how are we going to talk about forward exam rolling out and planning all of that Cooper is also a much larger building than Lake Superior was so that also navigating multiple sections and how we're going to do that so it's not that anybody's been new to the district just new to each building has their own unique ways so just navigating that and also being open and understanding that they've got new ideas too that we can also incorporate as well I think as a teacher too I feel well supported but just Logistics wise right like different ending and start times and getting to know the families that's just a key layer
017to everything I me you obviously like fa like she said much much smaller school um so just getting to know like in the beginning for me which kids go safely on the bus which will be picked up you want to have eyes on everything so it's just figuring it out um I'll say like the first rainy day in October oh wait a second like where where does everyone go for inside recess like we're inside today just those little things that you know most of which are communicated but it's just different just different we learn as you go going well um oh forward exam planning this week today opened our sixth week forward uh testing window so third fourth and fifth graders at Cooper will be taking these tests and the next week we have a
018spreadsheet so we're really organized those kids are well supported um so that we have our small groups for those that need it uh but it I would say it does add an extra layer we want people to be quiet and respectful in the building for the kids that are testing because we want them to take it seriously not so seriously that anyone's nervous but I because I'm a c teacher I'm like you're big kids now right like we're doing really grown up things so just the roll out of that in the next six weeks adds another layer is there anything you want to say about that no and celebrations um we love to come together at the end of the year I know coer does all schools do when I say we um I'm glad
019I can be a part of arranging a celebration where all families and kids and staff can feel great it just takes a lot of hands hands on so it's just something that we're going to roll out by the end of the year we want to celebrate together as a Cooper community and it just takes a bit of plan so then our goal for for this year was that each grade level will increase their average score on the Benchmark assessment by five percentile points from Fall 2024 to Spring 2025 so I dug through and I also put so I put each grade level but I put the specific assessment that we were using there was a reason why in our goal that we we just said The Benchmark assessment because with us switching to as web
020midyear we wanted to make sure that we would be able to have some common ity and and some flexibility though in deciding what our assessment was going to be so as a shared leadership team we sat down and we talked about first what assessments are common from Fall to Spring and then also which ones are going to we're going to put our main emphasis of attention on so specifically with kindergarten there so kindergarten does letter naming and letter sounds well at the end of the day like letter sounds is really what we want to focus on because what's going to be the fundamental um skill for them to then be able to enhance their reading skills so the average score for kindergarten in the fall was 5.13 we made um we made a big gain
021I did put the letter sounds in there and then the initial sounds so there was two different scores um we went to a 29. 39 and then also a 10.89 in the initial sence assessment then for first grade we focused on decodable Words those are words that the children could sound out easily or not well as easy as they possibly can it is a time test as well the average score we went from a 14.83 to 26.6 in the winter then for the rest of the way down we ended up focusing on Fast Bridge because we feel like that is what is giving us most commonality the students understand fast Bridge they've done it for years now multiple years now so we focused on a reading for grades 2 through 5ifth um each grade level
022has made significant gains in their average test scores our teachers are doing a phenomenal job at pushing the students the next thing though that we want to focus on yes they're making gains they are doing a a good job there um but in order to push those percentile points more we want to have growth but also have more accelerated growth so I'm going to kind of jump around on here because I my brain's been jumbled up with data one of the biggest areas that Cooper is focusing on and we talked about it in the fall and we will continue to talk about it is having that collaboration between special education teachers and our general education teachers I will say I feel like it is going better this year with having um three special education teachers
023that are cross categorical so we have one special education teacher that focuses is on kindergarten in first grade then we have a second and third grade and a fourth and fifth previously we had they were they had K through five or K through three it was it was a larger range so this year we really tried to focus on honing in on two specific grade levels so that they can team up with kindergarten and first grade get to know those teachers really well get to know the interventions that those teachers are doing having them at the plc's consistently so that they can share the idea share the strategies I will say that this was highlighted in our uh personal reading plan meetings in February the collaboration with the teachers that were general education and emls
024and special education was amazing we we need to figure out what interventions are working with these students and what we really need to hone in on so those those conversations and driving that data I would say I would still like to see us have more rigorous growth um but we're focusing on the specific groups of kids that need it the most the students are receiving special education services are definitely a group that we need to continue to focus on it Cooper then our next action steps we have been adjusting our groups for interventions um Emily Cheryl and Sarah Barnes I they are the Dream Team they've done a phenomenal job Sarah Barnes comes in with a wealth of knowledge in the primary grade so in kindergarten first second she is she's amazing Emily Cheryl has
025done amazing in those grade levels as well but Emily Cheryl also has an expertise in the higher grades so having those two team up and in collaboration and conversations has been huge they've also been reviewing the data and we've been having weekly meetings where we're talking about okay where are these kids at where are they growing let's look at their weekly data to talk about if kids can graduate out of emls if they are going to move to read live natural which is more of a online based um resource for the students where they are getting more background knowledge working on that fluency so it's been fluid on students that need that specific intervention or what other interventions we should be using it was something that during again February staff development days it was nice
026to have that timing because we did get to meet every grade level group met with our em LSS teachers to talk about regrouping and restructuring and then having our entire grade level present just allows us to have the best plan for those kids in the you know best amount of minutes so we're continuing to look at that data we have our child support team meetings every Monday for teachers that have concerns um our school psych Elsa has been phenomenal as well she she has amazing ideas for the teachers for them to try I will continually say that I think that Cooper is one of the best schools in the district if not the best but I'm a little biased and it is all because of the team that we have between our school pych to
027our Special Education team to our J teachers it is it's just phenomenal we've been progress monitoring and then also that teacher parent collaboration with those uh personal reading plans I think having those parents at the table and having those conversations with them talking about what they could do at home and sharing those ideas with you know this is something that we're doing here and I've heard in many IEP meetings and many conferen is like hey I can make this for you if you want to play this game at home with your kids so all of those things coming together that's what's going to focus on the whole child and make those Gams for them so that's all that we have any questions quite impressive I don't necessarily have a question for you but I always
028look forward to your report and welcome thank you um I think the world of people that want to step up and and and want to lead in The District because that's what we need we need good leaders not only through our teaching staff but then our aspiring people that want to go into Administration Amy and Crystal reached out this fall that they were creating a future leadership program as you know and I had been sitting on the admin question for a while and thought NOP this is this is my sign so it's been really fun the half day learning that's built in we have our thir session this week but I I'm thankful for the opportunity and a good group yes yeah thank you thank Youk you thank you guys guys our student representative is
029next you're next look at me do we have more chairs there might be some chair you want to grab some and pull them in okay bu of them will free up here after these true okay okay you're um a few updates obviously we had spring break last week so then today a few spring Sports began their practices while a few of them start next Monday um I wanted to talk about Unity day that we had um we had very very positive feedback from people um they liked the activities and really enjoyed the speaker but the downside was the attendance was very low not a lot of students showed up for the day which is sad but um yeah otherwise it was a really good day um forensic speech goes to on Wednesday act for the
030juniors is next week and then the prea is the beginning of April so that's some things that are coming up um and then a little bit a little update on the student survey that we had sent out um I shared the results with principal fezzy and then me and him met together to talk about um a few of the most popular concerns which were about bathrooms phones and lack of communication between the school and students um so we kind of talked about some possible solutions for those um for the bathrooms there's like a lot of crowding smoking vaping in the bathrooms that obviously students are concerned about and administration is aware of this and has tried to put efforts into monitoring the bathrooms more but obviously that doesn't solve anything or everything so so um
031he was talking about how they're trying to put heavy efforts at the lower levels educating younger students of the dangers of smoking um they want to look into having a speaker come to school and talk about the effects of it and have advisory lessons to help spread awareness um phones students are worried about not having access to their phones to make contact with people at home or like for emergency re reasons um so I guess the biggest thing that we can do about this cuz the um the phone policy is probably not going to change but maybe make like a slideshow reiterating the reasons why we have the F policy that we do um and then the communic lack of communication between schools and student the school and students um the students don't feel that
032they're communicated or sorry um that they're not um sorry okay okay oh students don't feel that um they're told about like why we have administrative holds um so we were going to talk about um putting together like a slideshow or something um about the difference between like a lockdown and administrative hold because administrative holds um due to like privacy reasons they can't really talk about it and then they also student was having like a medical emergency or something right yeah um and then they were also concerned that like about like school closings and other like updates for the school their parents are sent an email about it but the students aren't so some students that either like don't communicate with their parents or stuff like that they don't get those notifications so Fe was going
033to look into um sending an email to students in addition to parents about notifications an important notices in the school we can do that at District level too if we send out messages to families we can include students at high school that's thanks for doing that thanks thank you for G us feedback on and I put you on the spot a few months ago oh that's okay and there was more concerns but um some of them either we can't really do anything about or um they're already being handled or where's the student uh Council involvement in it do um that's what we were going to work on student council is going to work on like making those slideshows to share to advisories and yeah they were the ones who generated the email right or the
034survey I mean right yeah yeah I feel like a lot of the concern I think students just aren't really like aware of the backgrounds of things so I think if we explain the reasons why we do things is going to be most important that helps everybody all the time yeah yeah all right thanks um all right so tonight we have a student presentation and update on our high school pledge makers program I know Mr Ro is here with a group of students so I'll let you kind of take it from here okay who do you want we we student student driven leadership board serving leadership board all these kids actually volunteer their time putting on events for the student body community and since it's student run I hand it off to the president Mr Mory
035welcome hi so before we start off with our presentation just want to give a brief introduction uh just about myself and the rest of the board if they they want to share their name together my name is Alton morsey I am the current president of pledge makers and I'm a senior at the high school uh my name is Aiden I am a sophomore currently and I'm one of the vice presidents I'm and I'm a social media manager hi my name is Lauren Heights I am a junior I am the other vice president hi I'm Bel I'm a senior and I'm advertising and marketing um I'm em B I a sophomore and I'm also advertising and marketing I'm Milo I'm a junior and I'm one of our recruiting officers I'm Olivia and I'm a junior I'm
036man I'm a social media manager um I'm man I'm a senior I'm enging on sophomore welcome all right and so just throughout our presentation we are just going to be highlighting what pledge makers is what we've done over the past year and kind of what we're looking for in the future go ahead um all right so uh thank you for having us here today we're very excited to be here um we want to thank you for all your support over the years um first of all I'm just going to give you guys a basic rundown of what pled makers is I'm not sure if all of you guys know exactly what it is um pledge makers Club is a group of 600 students at shs who have agreed to be drug and alcohol free free
037over their entire High School career um within that uh they are able to have the knowledge that they're being dring knal free which is obviously a good decision and they're also able to participate in the events that we put on within that we also have our leadership board which is us and we meet every Tuesday to discuss and encourage how we can eliminate drug and alcohol usage specifically uh drug and vape usage inside of the school um within our leadership board we also have an executive board which um we uh always pick specific people that are able to do social media um advertising Recruitment and such um overall we our entire board just wants to make a change in whatever way we can um one of the ways that we do that is we put
038on events which um encourage more students to participate in um signing the pledge to be Dr and alcohol free so throughout the school year we put on events to show students that you can have a good time like on a Friday night without drugs and alcohol being involved um some of the events we've put on are tubing black light volleyball talent show I don't understand in that cahoot challenge hey yeah so hi everybody I'm charmain Swan I work for the American lest Foundation got Pat here and partnership bag um I also coordinate the Northwest Sant L Health Alliance and I've been in that role for about eight years but it was only in the last year almost a year ago actually like to the day that I was invited to come meet with the leadership
039board and we were talking about some of the issues at school and some of the things that they were seeing and while events are hugely important part of prevention strategies and working especially with their peers we really wanted to talk about they were really interested in learning more about what we call Public Health policy systems and environmental change and so we started talking about some of the things that we could maybe collaborate on between the alliance that I coordinate and what they were doing at the school and the really cool thing is that probably out of all of the youth work that I've been doing in the last eight years and all of Northwest Wisconsin these students have been just so I mean just you're going to when they talk about um how they've been
040involved but they've been so in to what we're I mean you were even you did Wisconsin wins checks this summer so just we're really really super impressed with them and really excited to see where we continue to take our collaboration so thanks thank you thank you thank you so next few like slideshows are just going to highlight what we've been doing the past year and to make our community and even inside of our school a better place so this is what we've been doing yeah so on top of just our events within the school to encourag people to be drug and alcohol free we've also gone to the city council and we have introduced like new ordinances to the city um to help prevent drug and alcohol use as well so last year in May
041we went to a meeting with the mayor and a few City councilors and we had a few of our board members share some personal experiences from the high school just to show them like what it's actually like in the high school because they might not know um and we came up with an ordinance with the city council that they ended up passing at the city council meeting on July 2nd last year that limited the number of licenses for vape shops within the city limits so there can only be one Vape Shop per population of 25,000 and we are just above that and it rounds down so there can only be in the city limits and the existing vape shops that already were there were grandfathered in but they had to limit their signage so we
042really just decreased the number of ape shops to decrease the risk of the drugs and alcohol to our students I gota interject one thing there too it is pretty historic like legislation there are two places in our state that have had some kind of an ordinance like that it's Milwaukee and super ior so mayor Payne and the city council when we went into it it was kind of like we're going to see where this vote goes it's kind of divided when these guys took over and they heard the testimony it was unanimous vote and they're like we got to make a change we we're tired of vape shop selling to Miners and everything else and we even had the chap of police in there and they got the great lesson of government in action it
043was really empowering um but in that with the ordinance they not only limmit the licenses babe shops that go out of business they will not renew a license to bring in a new one that's already happened and you know it's making a huge change in our in our community okay so also last spring we went to SMS talked to seventh graders um we had split up like basically half of our board had split up in miss school on Monday and Tuesday so our local community % in front of middle schoolers basically the health class and we talked about the effects of drug and alcohol which is like the norm for younger students so we had mainly shared information about opioid and Drug prescription and like she said dangers of vaping and the alcohol effects and
044then finally we provided fun activities at the start to engage the students for the rest of their time so they wanted to hear what we had to say yeah I we can get until the slide showed up that just like what we kind of did all right so another thing we've done like in partnership with Charmaine is our youth voice project so basically what the youth voice project is it's um getting the experiences of Youth and Young People Like Us to show how vaping and nicotine has affected Our Youth and so one of the things we've done with this youth voice voice project is present to Keystone classes our lesson on big tobacco marketing yeah so we had presented in front of Keystone classes in January this year um hours 1 through six to give
045information about our board and mainly just the effects of drugs and alcohol we've passed out these sheets for kids to um write down some things of how Ving and nift have impacted their life and we got some stories about kids who had stuff that was happening at home and friends and just that those sorts of stuff and it was just eye opening for us and so another thing we've done with the youth voice project is the youth Wellness Leadership Summit AT wws so in this November 2024 we went to wws and presented our lesson on big tobacco marketing to 150 kids from six different counties in Northwestern Wisconsin and so after that we broke into small groups and shared a lot more information about the effects of vaping and nicotine the ks all right so
046in December I worked on doing some retail assessments with another one of our executive board members Ireland but unfortunately she couldn't be here tonight so it's just me um these were over three days approximately 10 to 15 minutes and me and Ireland had gone into 20 different licensed tobacco retailers looking at a difference of convenience stores pharmacies Grocery Stores um even some vapen tobacco shops but some of us were not let in um with that it was Ireland and I another worker with Charmaine Elsa Armstrong who works at the American Lung Association um with these we had a lot of experiences let's say including getting offered wine by one of the retailers even though we had introduced ourselves as high schoolers as well as seeing a lot of different signage not being updated to the
04721 age as I have listed on the sline um with this was another partnership with the Northwest Wisconsin long Health Alliance so Charmaine had helped us through this we were able to collect data see a lot of different points of view and how many people are running their businesses um so with this going back to that youth voices project we had asked the question how have VAP and nitin impacted your life um with this the statistics run 62% of students stated that they've been affected by vaping because of a family member who is a user 21% of students mention struggles in the bathrooms because of users crowding them as well as 42% of students said they had close friends who used fake products and so looking forward we have two major concerns one is drug
048testing as stated in policy will be random and suspicious drug testing there hasn't been it's been just completely erased almost our other concern is for pledge makers was our budget cut in the same year our budget was cut from $10,000 to 4,000 and having a loow budget prohibits us from putting on multiple events as was stated earlier in our presentation which drags our members and our student St out into a fun and safe environment and having this lower budget limits our impact on our student B so as Alon mentioned um the drug casting was cut five years ago which obviously leaves a big gap where um our kids can be exposed to drugs and alcohol and become addicted so we are here to propose drug testing being reintroduced in a way for students to be
049screened and received help there would we would like this in order to build a safer School culture and as far as our budget goes we are looking to raise our budget by 3,000 which will allow us to make a bigger impact on our community with more money we plan to push our start push the start of our awareness campaigns to younger audiences such as our fifth graders and mdle school students in order to build their awareness early on in life can I ask two questions about those yeah go ahead have you met with Mr fizzy about the drug testing not yet that would be a good first step yep and have you guys considered any grants or fundraising to help with your budget yes we have had to resort to um that's yes that has
050been our primary means of funding our projects okay well I think one one thing to first off thank thank you for even having a pledge makers because last school districts don't we we were talking about that there's a lot of gratitude thank you for that I think there has been some great impacts with that this was kind of like if we want to go even further in the future with this partnership and this momentum here's some possibilities or even maybe even having a talk with with certain members of redoing some policies different things and we're not about punishing students we're really about educating about's let's make an impact you know and let's make things better so this kind of just to start with that we I I was like be careful don't be tacky about
051asking for money especially in uh School funny is not a very popular subject right now um but we've made we kind of went from that 10K to 4K and I think we got better to be honest you know we we've but there have been times that our kids are like man we we some of the events that we used to be able to do you know six seven eight events it's just not in the budget to do that so we do get business donations American long Association has helped us in that way so it's not like please give us money but if there's a way that maybe $2,000 or something in the future conversations that that would make a big impact so can I ask are all events then free for pledge makers yes and
052where in the budget does this come from the high school budget school budget and uh my David's not here but the all of the school budgets were trimmed as part of budget cuts last year so he so when his budget gets trimmed then he trims out on different programs so superintendent stari said to make sure you're speaking with uh Mr fezzy as a person who ran that program one of the first persons who ran that random drug testing make sure that you're also speaking with your activities director because that was run through the activities um athletic department first so have good conversations with them you need help let me know thank you we just like to thank you guys for listening you guys do a lot for us and uh we really appreciate it well
053you do so much for all of the students for everybody in this school district and and Pat did you ever think long ago when you started all this yourself too that something would would have flourished like this over all the years this is what democracy looks like exactly you're proud you should be proud beautiful might have a better version of there yes what a great group of leaders you guys are thank you for all that you guys are doing thank you how many how many years you've been involved Mr Ro since 2007 thank you I think between the student council and them you can have a collaboration with the VAP thank you good evening thank you guys than you now look at all the chair better one with arms all right one other in informational
054item at the committee of the whole meeting on March 3D principal Aon fezzy from the high school provided us with an update of what was happening so far this school year um and make sure that if you want to view that you can hit the attachment action item consideration of an overnight field trip for the Northland senior Retreat motion to approve second motion a second to approve the overnight field trip for the Northland senior Retreat is there any further discussion hearing none all those in favor signify by saying I I I opposed motion carries our budget or excuse me our board committee reports Budget Insurance action items gifts grants and requests Administration recommends approval to gifts to accept gifts grants and requests received in February 2025 motion approve second Motion in a second to approve
055the gifts grants and bequest any further discussion thank you very much hearing none all those in favor signify by saying I I oppose motion carries annual donation to the Scholarship Foundation Administration recommends approval of the annual donation in the amount of $1,000 to the school district Superior Scholarship Foundation Incorporated Student Activities fund motion approve second motion is second to approve any further discussion hearing none all those in favor signify by saying I I oppose motion carries informational item at the committee of the whole on March 3rd 2025 Brock gan from CLA gave a presentation on the 2023 2024 audit and our financial statements we're also presented with updated information on our fund 10 revenue and expend expenditure preliminary reports motion accept Budget Insurance committe report second motion the second to accept the Budget Insurance committee
056report any further discussion hearing none all those in favor signify by saying I I oppos motion carries personnel neg associations Committee Action items Administration recommends approval of the March 2025 new hes and separations report motion second Motion in a second is there any further discussion hearing none all those in favor signify by saying I I opposed motion carries Administration recommends releasing Jennifer L's early childhood education teacher with the district from her 2425 school year contract per her request effective February 25 2025 with the liquidated damages provision enforced motion approved second motion and a second is there any further discussion can hearing none all those in favor signify by saying I oppos carries Administration recommends releasing Mark Johnson special education teacher from Superior high school for his 2425 school year contract for his requests effed March
0577 2025 five with the liquidated damages provision and force motion to approve second Motion in the second is there any further discussion hearing none all those in favor signify by saying I I opposed motion carries Administration recommends releasing Damien kemish health teacher from Superior High School from his 2425 school year contract per his request effective March 6 2025 with the liquidated damages provision waved motion approve second Motion in a second is there any further discussion hearing none all those in favor signify by saying I I opposed motion carries motion to accept the personnel and negotiations committee report second motion to second to accept the Personnel negotiations committee report is there any further discussion hearing none all those in favor signify by saying I I oppose motion carries from the teaching and learning committee informational item
058items at the committee of the whole on March 3rd Jennifer Willoughby director of early childhood and family education provided following updates on the IND Indian education and events and Black History Month to accept the teaching and learning committee report second motion second to accept the teaching and learning committee report is there any further discussion hearing none all those in favor signify by saying I I opposed motion carries operations Committee Action item Administration recommends the approval of the Bryant Elementary tuck point and window replacement project to Nordic underwater Services Inc for the base bid amount of $593,000 is there any further discussion Bobby anything to add uh the most recent update there was some concerns about you know window timing but uh architect met with um the contractor today and as long as they're able to
059get those on board by the end of April then I see no reason with our time constraints as far as while schools out job done was the completion date August 20th is uhst completion date other questions or discussion hearing none all those in favor signify by saying I opposed motion carries one informational item at the committee of the whole on March 3rd Aon Schilling director of Information Technology and Casey Smith Technology support specialist provided an update on technology and cyber security motion to accept the operations committee report second Motion in a second to accept the operations committee report is there any further discussion hearing none all those in favor signify by saying I I opposed motion carries policies and rules committee Administration proposes the approval of Chang following policies based on Neola recommendations in order
060to be in compliance with federal law Updates this is second reading of policy 5771 search and seizures motion approv second motion a second to approve policy 5771 search and seizure is there any further discussion hearing none all those in favor signify by saying I I opposed motion carries motion to accept the policies and rules committee report second motion a second to accept the policies and rules committee report is there any further discussion hearing none all those in favor signify by saying I I I oppose motion carries other reports by members of the board nothing yeah got nothing anything Nick oh you Nick then we'll move on district and program highlights anything else Amy well I want to say that I had the opportunity to hang out with 8th graders last week in Washington DC in
061New York City super fun um super great kids I thank you to the parents who let us hang out with their kids for a week and trust us to keep them safe and educate them and have some fun in in the meantime so that brought them all back got them all back that have a highlight what was your favorite oh well I asked the kids hands down the kids highlight was the Harry Potter play on Broadway the special effects were pretty incredible uh the Holocaust Museum was pretty those were there two favorites I think yeah the Empire State Building was up there too it's good um testing season is starting uh so we're starting with forward exam I think we heard some updates on on act and and forward exam um let's see uh spring
062sports are underway oh I knew there's one other thing um our own very own Kate Tesh was awarded um I want to get it right here she was awarded the mentor award from the woman Today magazine Rosie Awards a couple weeks ago so that's a big Regional award so congratulations to Kate Tesh well does she supports our district our principes and our teachers um every day so we're very appreciative of her and very nice again to hear the help that she's providing you as well Bristol and me S Christine and anybody in this there's more my thunder on that one time I'm sorry all right you all right anything else finally consideration of bills and pre-approved bills motional pay bills again motion a second to pay our bills is there any further discussion hearing none
063all those in favor signify by saying I I I oppose and Carries I will entertain a motion at this time to adjourn motion to adjourn second motion a second to adourn all those in favor signify by saying I I oppos motion carries thank you very much are they going to really talk