001All right, everyone. I'd like to bring this meeting of the West Alice West Milwaukee School Board to order. Um Sarah or excuse me, we're gonna have the pledge. School board member uh Becker, would you lead us, please? whichever >> I know >> 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. >> All right. Now, Sarah, would you please call the role? >> Yes. Mr. Lee, >> here. >> Mr. Becker, >> here. Miss Kaiser >> here. >> Mr. Culler is excused. Miss Deal >> here. >> Miss Carr >> here. >> Mr. Verbos >> here. >> Miss Lee >> here. >> President Burns >> present. All right. Proper notice of this meeting has been posted in accordance with
002the open meeting laws of the state of Wisconsin. Uh do we have any modifications for tonight's agenda? >> There are no modifications. >> All right. Uh then that will lead us right into the superintendent report. Good evening. I just wanted to start out the meeting um expressing um thanks to the community. Uh our community has faced uh significant challenges in recent days due to to severe flooding across southeastern Wisconsin, including West Alice and West Milwaukee. Many families, staff members, and neighbors have experienced damage to their homes, businesses, and property. And we recognize the hardship and disruption this has caused. We are grateful uh for the emergency responders, city crews and community members who have stepped up to provide assistance and we remain committed to supporting those impacted as recovery efforts continue. I want to uh
003say publicly I I have reached out to u Mayor Divine as well as village presidentele uh to try and partner in some kind of way um to support our community. We're still trying to get those kind of things organized as well as um using our closets at our at our various locations and schools to help our community. So that information will be forthcoming. Uh we are committed to um to being a bridge and provide resources to our community. So uh just wanted to start our meeting out with that. Um that is um something that has definitely impacted our community um in the last couple of days. Legislative updates. The federal government has released title two, title three, and title four funds. However, these funds have not yet made their way to school districts through through
004the Wisconsin Department of Instruction. So, we're waiting on um some instructions as well as some guidance on how those funds will um be when and where they'll be received. And now, Wizard of Oz. Uh do did we skip? Did we skip or did I skip? Okay. Ah, Sarah threw a sorry Battle of the Dogs. I'm sorry. So, we're going to ask uh our our athletic directors to come on up and or Shel or Shel, you going to lead this or AD is going to lead this? All right. All right. >> We good. >> We have a new our newest cheerleader here. >> Oh, yeah. This is Mia. She's eating pancakes for the cause. Um we are super excited about Battle of Dogs this year. um August 22nd. So coming in hot. So Trevor starting like
005right away and then here we go. Football game of the year, right? Super fun. Um we're really excited. So I'm going to introduce our captains that are here. If you guys want to come up and stand you guys can stand behind the spawn here. We have Donovan Isaac, Toby, Jesse, Alex Coulson, and Murice Smith. >> Right. I'm super excited to be here, too. I'm uh I'm ready to get into the job here and and see what uh West Athletics is all about. My guys, I have no idea where they are. They're supposed to be here. Um hopefully they they'll probably show up right after I'm done talking, but we have Noah Gutierrez, uh Brandon Sheek, and Jeremiah Morris. And hopefully they'll walk in here. But I'm sure you guys going to have something to say,
006right? >> All right. No. >> No. All right. >> You guys are supposed to >> We want to actually uh just take a picture with the central guys and if the hell guys show up, we'll just interrupt and take a picture with them. All right. Is that okay? >> All right. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Yeah. Jump in the gate. >> All right. Ready? One, two, three. Perfect. Thank you. [Music] The annual battle of the Hawks football game between West Alisa Central and Nathan Hell is right around the corner and that's why our young men are here tonight. Uh we want we were inviting the community to come out before the game for a tailgate from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. with free food and games. Then stick around for kickoff at 7:00 p.m. It's a great
007opportunity to support our student athletes and connect with the community. Everyone is welcome. We hope to see a strong turnout from both schools as we come together for this cross town tradition. So, thank you guys for being here. >> Thank you guys. >> Wizard of Oz. I I got a little ahead of myself. So excited. >> All right, Shel, you're on. >> All right. Good evening, everyone. Uh, super excited. This is the final show of the 2020 2024 2025 youth theater season. Um, and what a great show to do. Wizard of Oz youth edition. And I just want to point out if on the picture you will see that's not part of like traditional scenery that was uh created um with our staff. So I think that might have been a correct me if I'm
008wrong Scott Jordan Pard is the director and wanted to do something a little different. So that is super cool. So please if you have the opportunity go see the show August 14th, 15th and 16th. So this week um 7 o'clock are the evening shows and Sunday 2 o'clock at Wasalis Central High School. um and have some uh awesome cast members with us this evening and want to give them a special thank you because it is tech week and anybody in the theater world that knows tech week is the week before the show opens so we appreciate them taking their time I'll introduce them and then I'll have them share their characters because I know they already got questioned uh as to what uh role they're playing in the production so we have Julia Lorbery Topa
009and Pac Vov. So, if you could just come on up and share your character. >> Um, hi, I'm Lily and I'm a tree and an Azian. >> I am a munchkin and a Winky. >> Give me a name. Give me a name. >> Oh, sorry, Julia. >> Hello, I'm Pac and I am a Winky and a Munchkin. >> So, how many shows have you guys been in >> the program? >> Five. >> I've been in five. This is my eighth. >> Eighth, I think. Yeah. >> And we have a couple of board members with kids in the show working on the show. >> And crew, right? Yeah. >> Not this time. >> Any other questions? Grab a photo quick. >> Awesome. >> Yeah. I'm looking forward to the show this weekend >> and I shared
010in if you would like complimentary tickets to the shows Please be sure to call me and I'll get [Music] >> All right. Ready? >> Get in there. >> All right. One, two, three. Grace. Thank you. Okay. Everybody [Music] Okay, find a window. I think I got it right. All right. One, two, three. >> Thank you. >> Good luck. Good luck. Look forward to seeing a new Just a couple of events I want to highlight. Uh sale training with district leadership, cabinet one-on-one meetings, board meeting one-on-one meetings, as well as uh board member one-on-one meetings and budget meetings with finance and account teams concerning uh the adjustments to our budget um for the upcoming year. And that concludes the report for tonight. >> All right. Thank you, Dr. Robinson. Uh, and that'll bring us to our
011public comments uh section of the night. So, uh, if anyone wants to address the board, you have three minutes to do so. The board cannot discuss, debate, or act upon any item made um, topic that is brought up during public comments. Uh, but should there be a response required, a follow-up will be made by the superintendent at the next regular board meeting. So, right now we currently have no one signed up and no one's jumping up to sign up. So, we'll wait for a couple of seconds. Um, oh, and I forgot to mention that people will be available to sign up in the uh Zoom meeting as well if uh there should be a link in there if there's any need. Forgot to mention that. Seeing nobody at this time though, I will uh close
012our public comments section and we'll move on to our next section which is our board reports. And first we'll do 8.1 which is the review of our board calendar. So today is August 11th uh 2025 and we're having a regular board meeting. August 17th we are having a board retreat at the rec center in Daryl Hall. And then August 18th, there was a board workshop meeting scheduled, but there is currently no meeting that is scheduled for that time now. And on August 25th, we will again have a regular board meeting uh and uh the financial stability and efficiency workshop along with uh health insurance uh will be taking place at that time. So that is our calendar and then we'll move into board reports which I believe we have one which should be our college
013and career readiness. Uh, board member Becker, >> thank you. Uh, the college and career readiness committee met tonight, uh, right before this meeting. We looked at some of the happenings over the summer, what the the teams are working on, and had a little bit of a touch on what to expect for the fall. Uh, the the conversation for the summer was uh around continuous improvement for the the guaranteed and viable curriculum. Uh, we focused on four areas. Uh the first is planning guides. So kind of developing benchmarks what we expect our fourth graders to learn, eighth graders to learn and on and on and on. Uh having a responsive system. So that involves unit testing and assessment and progress monitoring. So as opposed to a few times a year, we're going to have more checkpoints
014basically to have a quicker identification of kids who are struggling. Um building strong collaborative teams. Um the idea being that we we we work better when we're working together as opposed to working independently in silos, making sure we're pulling in the same direction. And then finally on the adult learning framework, um part of that it kind of falls into the theme of uh the teacher coaching that uh that we've been working on the last couple years where we're making sure that our educators are are thinking about how they use things like small groupoup instruction versus individual instruction and being able to use uh being able to assess student achievement and understanding u by taking a couple different approaches. Uh what I found interesting uh from what uh Alyssa Barrage told us is that this this
015course of action really came about through just assessing the gaps in our own system. So it's taking a good hard look at what what's happening, what we're doing, and what we could be doing better. Um uh we also had a discussion on some school services. Uh Connie was kind enough to to to join us for the first time as one of our directors and she filled us in a little bit on some of the things she works on including uh enrollment, open enrollment, working with kids who are um in transition or unhoused, working with foster care families, um working on transportation for uh every type of transportation that we need for our students across the district. uh the attendance, census, just a whole lot of areas that uh support the the operations in our buildings.
016Um for new uh for the fall, we were looking at um some immunization uh some possible concerns with the measles outbreaks that are happening across the country. I believe we've got nine cases in Wisconsin right now. So we were hearing a little bit about uh what kind of strategies we might use were an outbreak to occur in the district. Um that was the sum of it. That's where we ended. Thank you. Right. Thank you. Uh does anyone have any questions for the committee? All right. Seeing none. Uh thank you board member Becker. Uh that'll bring us to uh community events. Board members, anyone want to share any community events that they have been participating in? >> No. >> Summer. >> I know. I know. There's not a lot going on. Um and then the teachers
017are going to yell at me about that one. Um so all right. Uh so seeing none, uh we will then I have no other updates or information at this time. So, we'll move on to our consent agenda, uh, which will be our 9.1 approval of minutes. 9.2 employment summary and 9.3 our supplementary contract, excuse me, supplementary contracts. Uh, does anyone need anything separated out? Uh, if there is no objection then to the approval of the consent agenda, which approves the approval of minutes, the employment summary, and supplementary contracts, we will approve with unimanous consent. Seeing no objection, that carries. There's nothing left on our task uh to do for our night. So, um with that, I would uh ask for a motion and a second to adjurnn the meeting. >> Move to adjurnn. >> Second.
018>> All right. Any last questions? All those in favor? >> I. >> Those opposed? Meeting is adjourned.