001I call the meeting to order and ask for a roll call, please. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. To rotate and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance, please. I pledge allegiance 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, a couple of administrative things to take care of here. I know we've got some anxious young lightnings here ready to go. We do have minutes from the regular meeting, February 10. I move for approval of the minutes of February 10th as written. Second. We have a motion and a second then to approve the minutes from the meeting on February 10. All in favor say aye. Aye. All those not, same sign. All
002right. Packed house tonight. Thank you for being here. Thank all the lightning for being here tonight and we'll get to you guys in about two minutes Nobody for public comment. We have the agenda for this evening look for a motion for adoption so motion and a second for adoption All in favor say aye. Aye. All right It was actually a minute and a half, so not too bad. So with that, I'd like to move on to 8.1 School of the Month presentation, Lincoln Elementary. So glad that they joined me. And we go out into the community a lot. So just this year, we did a performance at the basketball, the varsity basketball game, where all the horses performed together. We went to the high school at Christmas time, and we did a little caroling. We
003will do a choral fest in May, where we all get together and sing. And I take these guys to the nursing home. We went to a hockey game. Oh, I'm forgetting this. We sing at every single assembly, and then every Friday we lead announcements. So we sing a school song over the announcements, and then lead the announcements. So we are very active in love for these guys. So we're going to sing Living on Prayer, which I know everybody knows and hears. And these guys really like it. That's right. And thank you very much. Lincoln's always got a little bit in my heart because I went to Lincoln a long, long time ago. Long, long time ago. So I appreciate all the volunteerism, all the effort that you all put in it, and I appreciate coming
004out tonight and sharing some music with us. Thank you very much. All right. I don't know how... After that song, I'm not sure if you can hear me. It was awesome. Yeah, that was really awesome. I wasn't ready for Bon Jovi to start. Mrs. Ashbrook didn't tell me the song that we were going to get, but I was really excited to hear that. And just right away, Mrs. Ashbrook's an incredible music teacher and really gets a lot of buy-in with chorus, so it was really awesome to thank you guys for allowing the students to be here and share some of their talents. And thank you for letting me be up here. We're really excited to be School of the Month for March. And we're gonna talk a little bit about Lincoln and some of the
005things that have been going on at Lincoln Elementary School in the school year 24-25. So just a quick overview. We're gonna talk about our school success plan, our English language arts goal, our math goal, and our staff effectiveness and development goal. And then we'll talk a little bit about other things going on in the building that in our day to day and what makes Lincoln tick. So starting with English language arts, just starting out with our goal. We want 70% of students to be early on grade level or above as measured by our spring I-Ready reading assessment or diagnostic. So our spring 2025. This would be about a 4% increase from our three-year average of 66%. If you look at the data graphs up there, the faded ones are fall. So that was our first
006diagnostic that we took in the fall of this school year. And looking at the not faded one. That would be our most recent diagnostic in January, late January. So looking at that, we're wanting to shrink the red. That's students two or more grade levels behind and grow the green, students that are early or on grade level. So looking at that, for the winter diagnostic, we're at about 61% of students being that early on grade or above. Looking at our goal of 70% of students in spring. We're right now. We're about 7 8% ahead of where we were the year prior so as a staff We were really excited to see some of the efforts that we've been putting in leading to results for students So we feel like we're going to be able to attain
007our goal and continue to push past that and then we'll talk a little bit about What we're doing to get there So our initial actions and commitments really committing to collaboration and problem-solving so all of our grade level teams meet every single week focusing on What we want students to learn Where are they at? How do how do we assess where they're at? How do we intervene if they're not where we need them to be and how can we enrich students that are already there? So focusing on that time really protecting that time and sometimes Grade level groups don't always have all the answers so something we focused on this year is our peer-to-peer observations So teachers going into other teachers classrooms getting outside of their own four walls and looking at other classrooms and
008seeing what works in other for other teachers so we have a Reflection document looking for kind of aha moments like oh, I didn't think about approaching it this way or I didn't think about scheduling my workshop time this way and just really practicing on using that time as efficiently as possible and communicating with others because Sometimes as teachers we get caught in our own four walls or just in our grade level and really looking beyond that especially when it comes to how we can intervene or provide interventions to students or provide enrichment opportunities to students also a focus on interactive writing and interactive read alouds so walkthroughs with the Literacy support teacher and myself providing feedback And looking for ways to make that really engaging time even more engaging and more useful Our professional development
009time this year has been devoted to improving that instruction and that collaboration time So we've used time during professional development to debrief on our observations on our peer-to-peer observations kind of bringing our collective mind together to solve solve issues in the building and look at ways that we can get the most out of our instruction time. For English language arts in particular, additional step is some students are on I-Ready personalized instruction. Similar to our, all students have I-Ready personalized math instruction, so some students get it in ELA as well if they are. Really good at working independently or might need additional intervention time We also provide some reading initiatives through the library and school-wide Our most recent reading initiative. It was a reading and math Initiative combined and then I drew all this we had
010really good turn in rate on that and one student got drawn to be principal for a day and that was that was really exciting for them they got to Show some stuff on the TV in the cafeteria announcements and things like that so a lot of excitement around it and that really showed with the High turn in rate we had for that because we hadn't done that in a while In regards to those ela strategies so interactive writing the students are working together to decide what to write A big component of that is sharing the pen so students are taking turns adding to the sentence. It depends what they're writing, depends on what grade level they're in, but working on different blends or different parts of words, grammar, punctuation, but doing it together, increasing engagement,
011getting students talking about their writing. interactive read aloud also we're trying to promote active engagement so the teacher plans it out we use purposeful pauses opportunity for students to turn and talk talk about author's purpose look at text features make predictions on the text so kind of just like story time but purposeful and engaging and building that that reading understanding on to math there we go So similar to ELA, our math goal is 70% of students being early on grade level or above in their spring assessment. That would be a 6% increase from the three-year average. Similar to ELA, if you look, the faded graphs are where we were when we came into the building, that fall diagnostic. The not faded graph is our most recent diagnostic in January. You'll see, so with the reading
012one, we have a really sharp increase. With math that 45% in green on our most recent diagnostic is actually a pretty significant increase from the year previous That doesn't grow as sharply typically because with math we're learning new concepts. So we're being tested on concepts We haven't learned yet. So that growth is more continuous whereas the reading that we were like strengthening our reading so it can be really sharp and we're working really hard to get that last 10 to 20 percent up but with math it's more about not being taught those concepts yet so again we feel like we're in a really good place to meet or exceed our goal similar to English and language arts We do the peer-to-peer observation so staff our Staff are completing peer-to-peer observations in both English language arts
013and math this year And we're using that professional development time to debrief come together and and talk about strategies We use particularly as it pertains to workshops and I'll talk a little bit about what workshops look like on the next slide Or additional steps. We're also ensuring that there's time and opportunity to practice those previously taught concepts so Just because it's been taught doesn't mean it's been retained doesn't mean it's been learned so spending time Coming back to it and making sure that that foundation is really strong as we're moving into more complex More complicated math concepts. It's really important that we have a strong foundation to make to one to build confidence in the students And to so we know that they're going to be able to get that new information as it's being
014taught Again, we also have school-wide math initiatives, which is a take-home, but the school-wide math initiatives are more about promoting math talks at home, especially with the younger students, is talking about math, like we're going to the store, we're counting things, we're talking about what's greater than or less than, and just promoting that parent-child talks about math. So with those workshops, the intention is that we can intervene, enrich, we can practice. Those are planned through our collaboration time. In the peer-to-peer observations, there's a lot of talk about, oh, that's how you schedule your workshop. That's how many stations you have in your workshop. That's how you rotate them. And just really being consistent with how it operates, making sure that we're looking at the right things. Intentional, that's the word. Being really intentional with how
015we're operating our workshops. And again, we're reinforcing previously taught strategies from earlier in the year and things that we may have been taught earlier just to improve that foundation. With the peer-to-peer observations, we take the learning and insights from other classrooms and we apply it with action into their own classroom. Which brings us to our third goal our staff effectiveness and development which this is where it really all comes together You've probably heard me talk a lot about collaboration already us working together us making sure that we're using our collective mind Not just being in our four walls of our classroom, but working together so on our PLC continuum survey there is a question about collaborative culture staff working together When we look at our last three-year data, there's been a slight decline over the
016last three years, and that's why we decided to target that. We are looking at 90% of staff responding as developing or sustaining in the item staff working together, and right now it's around 80. That's my math really quick. A little over 82%-ish, but looking to increase that and really strengthen that so staff feel like. We're in a building where we can work together, we can take ideas from each other, and we can apply it to our practice. So with that, we have spent professional development time learning and relearning those collaboration strategies, making sure that staff are on. have an itinerary for their collaboration times we revised our teaching assessing cycle form so it's a one one sheet or a week so every week it's one sheet we get through it we we answer the questions
017uh what students uh where students are at what's our plan to intervene with students that don't have it what's our plan to enrich students that already have it and need to get pushed further and continuing that conversation in order for us to measure that we have a staff survey that we take we've taken throughout the year This just looks at questions for them to reflect on how they feel their collaboration is within the building so All staff are answering that Lincoln supports a collaborative culture where staff work together effectively to support student achievement In grade levels they're looking at since they all have that weekly collaboration time They're answering my collaboration time with my grade level partner is effective at addressing the needs of our students and really for a student it takes everyone so
018We're also asking that I know who I need to collaborate with in regards to my students, and I consistently collaborate and communicate with them, and we're including music, art, Phi Ed, library, our PPS staff, our special education staff, just so everyone knows who they should be communicating with in regards to student issues, concerns, and collaboration. Similar to all the other buildings we have a site intervention team and SC a social emotional learning tier one behavior team our site intervention team includes our PPS staff so our school psychologist our school social worker Literacy support teacher and in second and fourth quarter. We have a math support teacher the literacy support teacher and math support teacher provide Tier three interventions for students in reading and math our social worker school psychologist works with designing and implementing specific
019targeted behavior interventions for students We monitor the effectiveness of all the interventions we meet weekly Something that we've been pushing more this year is checking in with the regular education teacher in regards to behavior interventions more frequently because it can be a lot for a teacher when we have 18 to 20 students or more and we're trying to follow an intervention plan so we make sure we check in with them and Monitor the intervention to make sure that it can be done with fidelity that we're comfortable with it, and then it's having an impact Our social emotional learning tier one behavior team looks at the year as a whole as far as our behavior initiatives and our monthly expectations initiative which is part of our assemblies and looking at looking at our whole year from
020a social emotional learning standpoint. Along those lines are lightning character traits that we celebrate every month. Our acronym, Lightning, is for leaders, inclusive, grateful, helpers, thoughtful, nice or nothing, inquisitive, which is where we are now. As we get into testing season in April, it is never give up, and we end the year with goal setters for May. These character traits are celebrated through our leaders and learners assembly. We we give shout outs and our daily announcements That's those little lightning bolts beneath the clouds So they'll get a mini write-up about what they did what the student did that showed our character trait of the month so if you were some student was the student was curious about what they could do to become a better reader and we'll give that shout out in the morning
021announcements and Built a lot of hype and the best part about it is that students are often looking at giving other students shoutouts So they're running to staff like all this student really needs a shoutout So that's been the best part about this this initiative. We're trying Our school assemblies celebrate our leaders and learners, so it's a whole school assembly once a month. We celebrate the leaders and learners from our previous character trait, and we introduce the new one. I present a lesson to the whole student body on that next character trait. Sometimes it's part of a video. I ask students questions. They can respond to the whole student body, so they get really excited, a lot of buy-in. They receive a certificate, and with that certificate, something new we're doing this year. is so
022even Fyad music art the library and all the grade level teachers Can nominate students to be leaders and learners so outside of all the classroom doors? There's learner and leader frames where we can print off these the way that student exemplified the character trait and they get their picture in front of our lightning banner and that gets put up the whole month with the purpose being If we're only doing our assembly once a month, how can we carry this on throughout the month? How can that student be excited? How can other students want to buy in? So if that picture's up for the entire month, they get to take it home when they're done, just increasing that buy-in from all the students. We start our week with the Monday morning lightning minute. I give updates
023to the students about happenings in the week, reminders about expectations, things going on, quick talk about our character trait, ways they can exemplify it, and it's a good way to set the tone for the week. Student leadership is through K-Kids, so Aquanis K-Kids. We started mid-year last year, and we've been able to have it throughout the year this year. Students are involved in community outreach programs. Like, for example, you're seeing some leaf raking, some community cleanup. We do team-building activities, building leadership. So in the other one, they're stacking cups with rubber bands and strings. That was a fun one. Spreading kindness in the building. They've written notes to all the staff. showing their gratitude. So just an opportunity for our third, fourth, and fifth graders to practice leadership, learn leadership skills, and feel like they're
024part of something bigger. So that's been a very fun and very meaningful time. It's led by me, myself, and three teachers. Parent family connections our PTO we have a tremendous PTO that supports a lot of fun events throughout the year Just a few up there. We kick off the year with a school kick cookout There's family night at the Y Through our literacy support teacher. We're hosting two literacy nights this year fall into a good book and that's a typo up there It's actually swing into a good book since it's tying in with opening day for the Brewers. That's April 3rd With our PTO events, with the events, we've had at least two staff other than myself at them. Interested staff in the PTO are engaging in a book study this year, and they provide
025really great opportunities for families to connect with their school in a low-stress environment, support that relationship building. I cannot say enough about the Lincoln PTO and their support for Lincoln Elementary. Some things that we want to improve on, just improving our data tracking and our collaboration teams. Instead of waiting for our iReady diagnostic to come out, knowing exactly where our students are and really tying our collaboration time and the data we're receiving there and making sure it really aligns with where students are at. So improving that process is a goal of ours. Increasing the frequency and effectiveness of our interactive writing and interactive read-aloud walkthroughs. Just making sure that we're looking for the right things, getting other staff that are better at the interactive read-alouds or have more experience with it, allowing them to get
026into more classrooms so they can support teachers that are engaging in that high leverage, high engagement activity. And as always, increasing opportunities for parent involvement. Getting parents in the building, making Lincoln a community school, and strengthening that bond because it takes. take staff, students, and families together to really push achievement. And also improving our social-emotional learning delivery by connecting the character traits that we talked about to our social-emotional learning lessons and our morning meetings. All classes start their day with a morning meeting to build community and building connections in with our character traits just to make that messaging more consistent throughout the school day and throughout the weeks and months of the school year. Thank you so much for your support. Thank you for allowing me to be up here. And if you have any
027questions, I am open to them. A couple of things. First of all, love your school spirit, Ty. Staff got that for me. The second one is I really appreciated the way that you compared your beginning of the year to your progress in that bar graph. That was a really great way to show the excellent progress you've made and for us to see it clearly. So thank you for that. I just have a question. We sometimes hear that there's issues with attendance and getting the parents involved. Are you seeing any of that, or is the PTO a big help on something like this? We haven't reached out to the PTO for any support with attendance, but attendance is always a challenge, and it's always working with families, making phone calls, setting up meetings, and making sure
028that we're connected with the school. Other questions comments I'll just comment appreciate having us over For our visit for a coffee chat. It was a great visit I thought a lot of PTO members were at the coffee chat. This is good chat with them Got a chance to chat with a bunch of the staff I think the school culture at Lincoln is very, very good. So I commend you on that. I always love walking through your building. We see a lot of artwork. The halls are lined with artwork. The stairwells are lined with artwork. So I think that's pretty cool to promote that. I like the idea about celebrating your kiddos for the entire month. I think that's a great idea. But yeah, I just you know, I think the the foundation is there I
029think you guys are doing a great job when I you know, hope We hit our goals by the end. So that's that's the good land. Yep Shout out to mrs Whittier tremendous our teacher and loves getting the knows how excited the students get about seeing their artwork up and make sure that it gets up there Thank you I appreciate the time we spent there. I agree with Isaac. It seems like a great environment there and appreciate all the work that's being done. Thank you. Any other comments? Thank you very much. 8.2, college course requests. Good evening, everybody. My semi-annual request for start college now. We also have the addition of the early college credit program request too, which basically is very similar, except they're looking to take a class at a four-year institution versus the
030two-year. And then there's some things that the state helps the district with recouping some of the costs associated with that too. So as was submitted to you, we have 40 students looking to do Start College Now in the fall, and an additional two students looking to do the Early College Credit Program in the fall as well. There are multiple requests listed there because students are asked to list multiple courses in case if a course fills up, there's an alternate opportunity for them if it is available. We also go through the request to make sure that they're not taking anything that's already dual credited with our high school because we teach it on campus and also look for comparable courses to make sure they've exhausted opportunities within the high school before we let them take a
031like course over at the technical college. So I'll be looking for approval to move forward with these requests. I just have a question. Yes. The ones who are like for UW platform, is that virtual classes? Could be. Okay. Depends on what they arrange. Most of them, when they're that far away, they'll do the online. Okay. Can you just tell me, I see a few kids that have signed up that they wanted to take the general anatomy and physiology, but we offer anatomy. So that class is? Different enough? Ours is not credited right now. Okay. So ours is like an introduction. Got it. And so I look to see that they've taken ours before I send them over for that one. Okay. What's the difference between those start college now and the early college credit so
032the early college credit is more again for your institution requests and the state has Funds set aside through the higher aides higher education aids board that then the districts can recoup expenses for that and that's the The start college now does not have that no gotcha And for reference to for any board member who's interested there's two policies on college courses One is two two seven one and the other one is two two seven one point Zero one that's how close they are. Yeah So do you have any idea? I know that all of these ones that they signed up for, they won't be taking all of these. We're just approving them. Do you know how many roughly a year actually get taken of that list? Is it about a quarter of them maybe? So
033just so you know, and the board policy says that we can approve up to 18 credits for a kid to take in their high school. It's hard to say but most of them that are in like a pathway like if they're in nursing pathway They'll probably get all the classes they asked for because there's prerequisites that you need to take with it Okay, but other ones it's kind of like a smattering of interest and then it's where they lay but I could get you some I was curious about that and the other thing I was curious about is how many Credits are earned through our dual accreditation. Oh my gosh. We are at an all-time high Yeah, I would love to see that because I know my kids were able to take advantage of some
034of that too and really saved a semester of college. Yeah, I think I shared a brochure with Mark about a month ago that we were at like $267,000 worth of credits earned through dual credit at our high school. And we're like, I think, second or third in the Moraine Park system. It's pretty impressive. When I first came here, we were probably only around 80. Okay. So we've really grown, which is fantastic. Between that and APs, there's a lot of opportunity. Oh, gosh, yeah. I make a motion we approve the request as presented. Second. All right, we have a motion and a second then to approve the college course request as presented. Roll call vote, please. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Thank you. 8.3. All right. Good evening. So we have a donation on
035the agenda for tonight. Wayne Freund contacted the high school football program regarding donating a new washer and dryer to be used for washing the athletic jerseys at the high school. He discussed this with the high school athletic department, the Flat Tail organization, and they ultimately decided Wayne donated the money to the Flat Tail organization. They purchased the washer and dryer. It can be installed at our high school for that purpose. So they're larger than the current ones that we have. They're much more efficient. It's going to help speed up the process. Right now, this old equipment takes longer. So tonight I'm asking you to approve this donation in the amount of $1,500 in accordance with the board policy and then allow our maintenance staff to install and the high school to utilize the new equipment.
036Nice, I'm sure parents everywhere appreciate that. Can we bring our locker? I make a motion we approve the donation as presented. I'll second. All right, we have a motion and a second then to approve the donation as presented. All in favor say aye. Aye. All those not, same sign. Thank you. All good, thank you. Alright, moving on to reports by the Board of Education. We will start with 9.1, Student Rep Report. Okay, so ironically enough, February is the shortest month and it's my longest report yet. But in February and early March, I had the opportunity to go to two different elementary schools to witness events that were happening. My first stop, I landed at Wilson Elementary, where students were rewarded for excellence on their iReady diagnostics. I learned myself a little bit about how I-Ready
037works, as I did not go to the elementary school, so I learned about how it worked. And from my understanding, students who met their stretch goal, which means that they are ahead of pace and have grown more than a grade level already, earned an extra recess at the end of the school day on a Friday. And this extra recess came on an excellent day because it had snowed the night before, and there were a lot for the students to do. And I'll quote one student. One student said, This research is so clutch. But that wasn't all that the Wilson Wildcats were rewarded with that day. After school, all the students who had already grown one full grade level got to celebrate with a cookie and hot chocolate party. And Isaac, I got to report back
038to you for this one. The hot chocolate, very good. I mean, perfect temperature, right amount of cocoa. It was lacking marshmallows. That's my only complaint. And then the cookie is really solid. I mean, nice and soft, tasted fresh. So really thought you'd like to hear about that. But in all seriousness, it was an excellent celebration to truly reward the students for their accomplishments. I had many conversations with the different students, and they were eager to tell me about not only how excited they were for the party, but also the work that they were doing in the classroom. Later in the month, I traveled to Prairie View Elementary for their assembly during American Heart Month. They gave updates on how their progress towards their goals of raising money for the American Heart Association was. In the
039closing and the best part of the ceremony for them was turning school resource officer, Officer Edwards, into an ice cream sundae. So he brought along a special guest, Mr. Schmidt, who served as interim dean of students at the start of the year while Associate Principal Dwyer was out on maternity leave. The students earned this after crushing their fundraising goal for the Beaverdam Police Charities. Their goal was to raise $800 and they raised over $1400. So Mr. Schmidt had chocolate syrup dumped on him. That was his sauce. And the worst part was one student dumped their portion of the syrup on Mr. Schmidt's sock, which was the only piece of clothing he did not bring a spare pair of. So I don't know how he got home with chocolate syrup on his sock. And Officer Edwards
040had honey dumped on him, and I can't even imagine how hard that was to clean out of his hair and beard that he has going on. But it was awesome to witness different events happening in our elementary schools and rewarding them for their hard work and dedication in the classroom. The high school had an eventful winter sports season with several exciting moments across various sports. Winter athletics wrapped up this past weekend with the boys' basketball team falling short to Burkefield Central in the regional final game. Similarly, the girls' basketball team advanced to regional final but ended their season with a tough loss to Menasha. Girls hockey team made an impressive run to the sectional final, narrowly missing out on a state appearance after they were defeated by the Cap City Cougars. In wrestling, five athletes
041qualified for state with Landon Grow earning a podium finish, while others came just shy of the top six. Bowling state competition took place this past weekend where Beavers proudly represented their school. In addition, other teams across the school, including boys hockey and swimming, also showcased strong performances this winter, contributing to the overall success of Beaverdam athletics. Overall, it was a very successful winter season, and Beaverdam is now being recognized as a tough opponent in the Badger Conference. And as the winter season comes to a close, we anticipate the start of our spring seasons in the coming weeks, and track and field actually began tonight. So we are looking forward to a successful spring season to continue the momentum set by our fall and winter programs. And this past weekend, band and choir also hosted solo
042and ensemble. All students did a wonderful job representing our district, both in their competition, but also their character, as they were helping out other competitors and spectators around the school, giving them directions. And many competitors also advanced to state for their performances. So as we wrap up another month It's clear that the hard work and dedication of all the students from elementary to high school is truly remarkable Whether it was celebrating academic achievements athletic success or musical talents It's excited to see how our school community continues to thrive I look forward to highlighting all the upcoming opportunities and achievements in the next few months as we close out our school year Nice report nice questions comments for max Thanks for getting out to those elementary schools, too. It's really neat to hear through your eyes
043what the kids are working on there Hey max did you buy any chance bring one of those cookies along there? Oh No, I enjoyed them for myself Next time you bring me the kids in the kitchen food that all right. Hey, we got a deal. All right. I think I think the full board appreciates the amount of effort and time you put into putting the reports together. I think it's always very interesting to get a report of all the activities that are going on within all of our schools. I appreciate the time. Also going to elementary schools, I know we don't report out a lot on them, so it was nice to get into two of those as well. So thank you very much. Yeah, I had fun doing it. Principals, if you have any
044more events, I'm willing to come. We've got a couple more months left. Are snacks required or you'll come without snacks? I'll come without snacks, but they're encouraged. All right, Max, thank you very much. That moves on to operations. The operations committee met on February 24th. At that meeting, Mr. DiStefano shared the referendum projects monthly update for February for committee feedback. And that particular update includes information on what's new, project team updates, budget finance updates, and key dates and milestones. Monthly updates regarding the status of the new middle school, Washington Elementary addition and renovation. as well as district-wide improvements are shared publicly and posted to the district website at the end of each month for community reference. Mr. Cashman, Director of Business Services, presented an update on the 2024-2025 budget. He provided a summary of various
045fund categories and reviewed Fund 10 expenses and revenues. Budget opportunities for 2024-2025 were shared, including considering a small increase to fund balance, debt payments, and adding to Fund 46 and Fund 73, which is OPEB. He shared the 2024-2025 mill rates for the area. Dr. White, Director of Human Resources, provided an update on staffing projections for 25-26. She reported that the plan will be to staff to enrollment and to keep class sizes a priority for grades K through five. She shared projected enrollment and total FTE staff data along with staffing projections for each level. There are no new certified staff positions for a total decrease of 9.5 plus or minus FTE. If qualified candidates cannot be found for various positions, they could be left unfilled and or create overloads for some of our certified teaching staff.
046Our next committee meeting will be April 28th. All right. Thank you, Marge. Any questions, comments for Marge? Mary, I think you're going to handle T&L. I am. I am. Teaching and Learning Committee met on February 24th. Mr. Krause, Prairie View Elementary School Principal, and Dr. Meyer, Director of Teaching and Learning, presented Mid-Year School Success Plan Progress and Site-Level Data Report. They reported on the progress, success, and next steps for math and ELA goals, and climate and culture for each school, math and ELA achievement data for each. level was reviewed along with IXL data and historical ACT performance for the high school. They noted improvements in collaboration processes, the presence of urgency, and resource improvements used to support student learning. Next steps include providing more professional resources, attention to students performing below grade level or who
047are not meeting targeted growth levels, continued investments in K-12 science-based literacy instruction, and continuing implementation of the PLC process. Committee members provided candid feedback and insights to support continued growth and achievement. A mid-year update was provided regarding achievement gap AGR data. The district's AGR schools are Jefferson, Lincoln, and Washington elementary schools, and reporting is required for grades K through 3. The baseline and mid-year data for reading and math were reviewed along with AGR strategies. The committee received an update on Act 20, which relates to early literacy initiatives for grades 4K through 3. The report included progress on training, the process used for screeners, diagnostics, and parent notifications. Reading readiness screener data was reviewed along with takeaways from the first year and plans moving forward. The next committee meeting is scheduled for April 28, 2025. All
048right. Thank you, Mary. Any questions, comments for Mary? We'll move on to board engagement and recognitions. Open it up to the board for any engagement opportunities they were involved with or any recognitions they'd like to present tonight. I did go to the solo ensemble on Saturday. We were here most of the day. My son's things were well spread out. So it gave us an opportunity, though, to watch many other of the groups and individuals, band and choir. A lot of great talent. Some nerves with some some of them the judges are really good though about and I'm talking to them talking through it so And yeah, there was a lot of students that are going to state so it was it was a good day anybody else recognitions engagement opportunities I Yeah, just want to
049recognize Lincoln again appreciated the opportunity to go there tour the school and talk with some of the staff the PTO It's just a it's just always informative when we can go on those tours and be in the buildings So appreciate the time it took to prepare for that and take us through I had a couple visits I went to the girls hockey Sexual semi-final game. I was an exciting game. There was some great goalie play I thought that game they won that game. So that was an exciting exciting event. I went to the girls basketball One of the regional games, that was another exciting game. They won that game. Some scrappy basketball, which I like to see, so that was good. At my son's school, they had an event called Breakfast and Books. And my
050son had band that day, so I did not go. And I'm a little disappointed in myself for that one. Was it pretty good, Mr. Krause? Yeah, right yeah when I dropped him off the the parking lot was packed so I'm sorry for missing that I still see myself over not pulling them out of band and just going So they did that but they did have another event at Prairie View was a it was a bake sale for the save the ocean So I sent some cash, and my son, he really did pretty well. He brought me home some puppy chow. I got puppy chow. I got a four-layer cookie bar. It had chocolate chip cookies. I don't know what was in the middle, but there was melted marshmallows. Yeah, yeah. That was really, really good.
051And then there was also a brownie with Oreo kind of topping on it. Yeah, that was really good. Yeah, that was good. I was proud of him. He wanted me to share the Oreo one with him, but I didn't. And then Lincoln, we went to Lincoln. Mary and I went to Lincoln. We had a great little visit there. And big shout out to the kids in the kitchen at Lincoln. We had chocolate chip croissants with a little bit of powdered sugar on the top. Very flaky croissant. It was good there was that was really good I wish I would have just taken an extra one home and maybe warmed it up just a tad But it was still really really really good. So thanks kiddos for that And then just a couple recognitions today. I
052saw that Brenna Rhodes one of our Freshmen hockey player she was named co-player of the year in the Badger Conference. So She's a close family friend. So a big shout out to her And I ran across too, I don't know if we mentioned it, but Natalia Donaldson had a thousand career points at some point here. And so I don't know if we recognize her, but I want to just congratulate her on that. And then also just congratulate all the rest of our state qualifiers for the winter months, as Max said. So that's it for me. Thank you. I had one more that I forgot. Just a shout out to the FFA kids. They continue to show up every month at the Second Harvest mobile food pantry, which is very early on a Saturday morning. We
053just really appreciate their help with that. And they're good workers and have a good time doing that, I think. So good job, FFA students. Speaking of FFA students, we have Max over there who is a great auctioneer now. And so if anybody ever needs one. There are rumors about Max doing an auction live at the next board meeting, but we'll talk about that. I had just a couple, and I'll turn it over to Marge. I want to recognize Coach Pogorelick. He is identified as the State Hockey Coach of the Year in Wisconsin. So that's outstanding. Had a nice post on that and it got more likes than the post I was in, so way to go, coach. No, I'm just kidding. It's awesome. Another shout-out to the middle school play. Their performance was outstanding. For
054people who got to catch that, they know what I'm saying. Elementary concerts have been huge the last couple of weeks, as we saw. A lot of great talent. The staff's doing a phenomenal job. I want to give a shout-out to the high school staff, particularly Gerber and his crew. between basically in the last month between the playoffs ones that we were participating in as well as other WIA related events that we hosted at the field house we had over 8,000 spectators through the field house and then if we consider other youth and community events that took place using the field house from February to now we had another at least two to three thousand people through so really getting great use out of that wonderful community resource And then somebody mentioned solo and ensemble, obviously
055a wonderful, wonderful event. 70 events, a little more than 70 events, I believe, are moving on to state. 60 in the vocal area alone. So pretty awesome. Record-setting advancement to state. So that tees up a great transition, Marge. What do you think? Well, I'd like to present a proclamation. Fine Arts Month whereas the National Association of Music Education has designated March as Music in Our Schools Month and the National Art Education Association designates March as Youth Art Month and the National Dance Education Organization recognizes March as Dance in Your Schools Month. And the Educational Theater Association celebrates March as Theater in Our Schools Month. And whereas fine arts education is part of a well-rounded education, fostering creativity and innovation in a cultural context while supporting the social and emotional well-being of students. whereas fine arts
056education shapes the way our students understand themselves and the world around them allowing for a deep engagement with learning through skill development artistic literacy creative expression and performance and whereas quality fine arts programs involve multiple partners including families community members organizations and businesses therefore Be it resolved that the Beaverdam Unified School District Board of Education proclaims March 2025 as Fine Arts Month and encourages all Beaverdam students, educators, family, and community members to celebrate the arts and benefits it brings to our youth. Thank you, Marge. I think we've seen it tonight. I think we talk about it all the time through our recognitions and engagement opportunities that we all go to. It's a highlight of the Beaverton Amunified School District. And with that reading of the proclamation, I'd like to entertain a motion to adopt the
057Fine Arts Month Proclamation. I so move. Second. All right. We have a motion and a second then to... Adopt the Fine Arts Month Proclamation as presented by Marge. All in favor say aye. Aye. All those not, same sign. All right, thank you, Marge. I move the board recess into closed session pursuant to Wisconsin Statute 19.85, current one, current C, concerning employment promotion, compensation, or performance evaluation data of any public employee over which the governmental body has jurisdiction. for exercising responsibility specifically to discuss specific employees in 19.85, 1, E, deliberating or negotiating the purchasing of public properties, investing of public funds, or conducting other specified public business whenever competitive or bargaining recesses require a closed session. Second. All right, we have a motion and a second to move into closed session. Roll call, please. Yes. Yes.
058Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. All right. We will move into closed session and be back for the completion of business. All right. We are back in open session, and we will move on to 12.1. There are no resignations or retirements for your consideration tonight, but we do have several leaves of absence for your consideration. Okay, can we get a motion for the leaves of absence? I move we approve the leaves of absences as presented. Second. All right, we have a motion and a second to approve the leaves of absences as presented. All in favor say aye. Aye. All those not, same sign. All right. We have one appointment for Luann Manti to be a long-term sub in special education at Prairie View from April 7th until the end of the school year. I move we
059approve the appointments as presented. Second. All right, we have a motion and a second to approve the appointment as presented. Roll call vote, please. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Thank you. All right, 12.4. I want to talk about the appointment of Board of Canvassers for the April election. And I, Mark DiStefano, Michelle Falkenham, and myself will serve as the Board of Canvassers for the April board election. Tammy Zether will serve as an alternate. And I need a motion for approval on this. So moved. Second. All right. We have a motion and a second then for the appointment of Board of Canvassers for the April 25 election. All in favor say aye. Aye. All those not, same sign. 12.5. 12.5, board policy updates. This is your first reading. So in your board packet, you
060have a summary as well as all the policies for reference for the spring policy updates. Myself, Dr. White, I believe, and Mary Postema met with Neola and reviewed all that you have before you. So there are three new policies. 28 revisions, three replacements, and three policies designated to be rescinded for your review over the next month. So if you have any questions, anything comes to mind, please reach out if you want to talk through any of those pieces. The summary from Neola's great. Again, you also have reference to the other policies. I will say, if you look at the policies that are designated for being rescinded, make sure you look at the description that's been provided for you because those policies are being rescinded essentially because what they were covering is covered in other places.
061So not taking away any rights or otherwise, it's already covered. So when we typically pull them off, it's because of redundancy. Go ahead and review that over the next few weeks. Again, if you have any questions prior to the next board meeting, please let me know. All right. Payment of claims. I move for payment and claims the amount of $3,894,169.56. Second. All right. We have a motion and a second then for payment of claims. Roll call vote, please. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. All right. Entertain a motion for adjournment. So moved. Second. All right. Motion and a second then for adjournment. All in favor say aye. Aye. All those not, same sign.