001e e e all right we will call the meeting to order if you would all please stand we'll do have our prayer and our pledge Lord thank you for this beautiful day in the warmer weather thank you for the opportunity to get together tonight and discuss trustful City schools and our kids I just pray that you will um help us to finish the year strong and um be with our teachers our administrators our staff everybody associated with our school system um help them to to guide and and to um represent our school system well in Jesus name we pray amen amen salute pledge I pledge aliance 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
002right uh Sandra if you'll call the role please Kim deso here Sher Tolbert pres Kathy Brown here Steve Ward here Jason Daniel here all right thank you everyone for being here tonight I'd like to welcome all our visitors um I will you all have had an opportunity to look at the agenda for the evening um I'll entertain a motion to um to adopt our agenda for the night make a motion second second any discussion all right all in favor of adopting tonight's agenda please say I I any opposed okay um agenda is adopted um let's see Lisa is here tonight Lisa come on up and give us our city council update thank you um first of all we meet tomorrow night in City Hall at 6 o' if anybody would like to attend the meetings
003are always open and we're on YouTube too A lot of people don't realize we have a YouTube channel so you can subscribe to that if you ever want to go back and look at a meeting then it's it's there for you to look at so on our agenda one of the things that was my favorite things to do since I'm the liaison to the school is honor either our teachers or our students in whatever capacity that looks like so we will be honoring Melanie demmler for her presidential award in mathematics and Sciences tomorrow night so she's got a family and friends coming and we look forward to that we do have a um a ribbon cutting for our fourth fire station which we just completed that is on trustful Clay Road so that's going to
004be March the 12th at at 11:00 kind of a if you haven't been able to go inside and see it it's a beautiful fire station it completes the the fire stations that we needed to give us the lowest rating possible to help you with your your H homeowners insurance as well so beautiful building if you get a chance come March the 12th um we did get some funding I think the Tribune did an article on that for a red light and ATT turning lane at Carrington and that was thanks to Danny Garrett and his hard work that immediately um brought attention to Stockton where's my red light that we were promised like months ago so there was there was some back order on something but we have reached out and that is in the process
005and so Stockton is getting their red light as well as Carrington and should get it before Carrington does um and I think that's all that I have we just uh enjoy partnering with the schools we do have a save the date for our Ida and career day fair that will be April the 8th so enjoy work with um Lisa Smith and her group on bringing in idea Industrial Development Authority businesses into the schools and just set up a career day where they can be interviewed and look at businesses right here in Trussville and potentially go to work there or um do co-ops that kind of thing so just to save the date on that that's all I have thank you Lisa all right Dr Martin I'll turn it over to you for recognitions well I'm
006going to ask Terry and Jim if they would please come forward where's Terry if you come forward we have several members of our very talented uh CNP staff who are with us here this evening and each one of our schools received a 100% rating from the health department um and so we we like to say we want to make sure that our students are safe we want to make sure that they're getting an outstanding education but it also is good when they get good nourishing delicious meals throughout the day so we want to thank you for that and I'm going to turn things over to the two of you at this time well I would just like to say thank you for all the hard work and dedication of the entire CMP team and I
007would love to introduce the managers do you want uh just do know to what Terry said I mean these ladies work very hard uh it is a grueling job and uh they do it with smiles they uh try to make the kids stay uh uh great when they come in and and I just cannot tell them and the ladies that work for them how much we appreciate what they do every day all right man I'm sorry Le we're going to make you come to the front so i' begrudgingly we're going to ask you to come up so we can get a picture and and recognize each of you so all right Shannon Mason is the manager of the high school so come on up next we have Julie mck is the manager of the middle
008school is the manager of [Music] pain Amy Middleton is the manager at Magnolia and Peggy reinhall is the manager of Kaba [Applause] [Laughter] can I have SC over here little more little more little more little more right perfect ready yes The Voice so the Martin family is one of those families that will look in the newspaper to see what the health rating is for restaurants so in the trustful article you wouldn't mind putting in there that every one of our schools had a 100% yes we appreciate that yep thank you so much appreciate that um this is a first for me our second recognition is our Middle School 7eventh grade girls basketball basetball team and they won the Metro South championship and I'm going to ask Lance to come up here with me but none
009of them are here wow these are multisport athletes who are out competing right now in softball um I hope they realize we're recognizing them but I still want Lance in case anyone is watching and we'll make sure that they know that we recognize them here before the board um I I think it's very important that when teams either get first or second blue or red map at the high school level or they win a Metro championship at the middle school level we recognize that commitment and these seventh graders did that and they had a tremendous year so Lance can you give us a a couple stats about the team yes thank you Dr Martin uh this year our seventh grade girls won the Metro with a 17-1 overall record uh championship game we beat home
010with 36 to 31 this year we averaged 35.9 points a game and gave up just 6 15.7 points a game so about a 20 points a game margin there uh want to recognize our coaches Beth Allen Smith and Alex Brisco and our 10 players on the team Sophia Brisco Libby Bullington Sophie Bullington Piper Cornell Kinsley halpen Aaliyah Hawk geneveve Hill cydney ly Hannah schmol mallerie Williams and our manager Kaden Hester so congratulations to them and uh we hope they're all doing well this afternoon at track and softball games as well so Mr M's anything dad just to add on I I don't think there any better Testament to our program and what we try to do at Middle School really feeding to Mr King uh with with any of our extracurriculars Athletics may be we
011we want well-rounded students um and the fact that none of them are here because they're doing multiple things is great I can't brag on Coach Smith uh and Coach Brisco enough coach Smith really coming in this year I think he would add has just brought a significant energy level to our program and I can't brag on her enough even down to us lifting all of our male and female athletes throughout the week each week just a testament to our kids and our coaches um so I can't be more proud of these girls and our and our staff who's the head coach is she a graduate from that's what I thought okay yeah she's from a coaching family not you beat me to the punch I two of you so I want Comm you on on
012a a great hire of Coach Smith and and uh if you would Mr please extend our uh congratulations tomorrow when you see him and and uh coach Smith as well so thank you okay our next item is Mr Kirkland with our financial report they were asking when they could leave yes thank you ladies congratulations thank you Dr Martin and board members uh we are pleased to present the monthly financial report for January it is uh in your packet tonight all the bank accounts have been reconciled to the general ledger the financial extract has been uploaded to the state department with all necessary edits corrected for the month uh total expenditures and transfers out from the general fund are at 31% of the budget compared to 32% of the budget this time last year uh adorm
013revenues are at uh 58% of our budget which is about 2.5% higher than this time last year so um just coming in slightly higher than we were uh this time last year um and as always upon board approval the monthly financial report will be uploaded to our website for public review okay thank you Jim all right next um is the consent agenda um you've all had an opportunity to review the items that are listed on the consent agenda I will um entertain a motion to approve the items listed in the consent agenda I make a motion a second second um is there any discussion Dr Martin anything you want to bring out just a few items I'd like to highlight members of the board we'll take a look at item number eight under consent agenda
014uh this goes along with Mr Kirkland's report so it is that time of year once again to uh approve our letter of engage letter of Engagement with Carl Rigs and Ingram and so they'll start that process for the audit the item right under that is the approval of a door mobile access control setup and this just updates our door access ACC control uh gives a little more local control to principles at their buildings I uh this is part of the uh entt funds that we've set aside for Safety and Security at each one of our schools if board members look at item 13 uh hu trustful high school has once again been asked if they would um uh host all AP teachers across the state that's quite an honor for us and we appreciate it
015because that means that our AP teachers get to sleep in their own beds they don't need to travel um they're able to be here in our home school and again it's quite an honor I think that's a testament to the great work that our AP teachers do that they want to continue to use this as home base for the A+ College ready program so I thank Mr King and his staff because I know that's two weeks in the Summer where you're doing a little bit of overtime to support all those teachers that Ascend upon the high school if you take a look at item 15 uh letter C is change order number 18 this completes the high school baseball Turf project uh the other two items A and B are related to the new softball
016stadium but C completes that project and from what we hear the from the coaches very happy with that Turf project there at the high school uh we have facility use agreements requested as well as field trips and that should be all for consent agenda okay any further discussion all right all in favor of um approving the items listed in the consent agenda please say I I any oppos all right motion carried next is Personnel okay looking at our Personnel report the summary uh we have several retirements that have been announced some of which are here with us this evening um well those individuals would you like for them to stand Dr Ward be recognized for yes we have Cheryl Gilbo who is our special education supervisor there in the back have you noticed that all
017of the retirees are City any way as possible yes get here yes that's right yes yes where is where where is Dr Phil F I think I see her there she's also okay submitted a letter Dr Lisa Los spike is back there somewhere El also and then I know Joy Young has submitted a letter as well so so very good administrators have been very good to trustful City Schools um and this really is their chance to resend that letter of retirement if they'd like to absolutely going once going twice why don't we come back to the person report after we have several uh let's see here we have five resignations um we have uh five uh leaves of absences requested by staff members uh a few employee extra Services agreements one change in their effective
018date uh one change recommendation and schedule one recommendation for transfer reassignment um one recommendation for resignation of a supplement and then one recommendation for an sna certification um and and the last thing I'll say about Personnel uh usually in May June time period we uh recognize all of our retired so uh it'll be a pleasure to recognize these ladies as well during that time so that is the Personnel report all right um thank you Dr Martin uh any um I'll entertain a motion to approve the items listed in the Personnel section motion second second any further discussion on that other than we're very sad you the back but we are very grateful for everything y'all have done for trustful City schools and wish you all the best in your retirement um all right um all
019in favor please say I I any opposed okay motion carried new business all right if you look at item number one there new business authoriz the superintendent to negotiate a contract with the city of trustful for transportation space I I think that this action item just speaks to the the very strong good relationship between the Board of Education and and our city leadership uh the city and trustful Waterworks have plans for their space down um on Route 11 and we utilize some of that space and so they've asked us to vacate that space but knowing that we were asked to vacate that space Mr Kirkland's worked very hard with the city uh they've found additional space for us to use actually I would say when you agree Mr posie probably better space than we have
020now so um asking us to make a move then finding us a better space than we have like I mentioned before just speaks to that strong relationship and we're certainly appreciative of the city for for supporting us with that so this allows me to negotiate a final contract around that space the city will work with us on okay um all in favor well I'll take the motion to authorize Dr Martin to negotiate the contract with the city of trestle soov second second any further discussion all right all in favor please say I I any opposed all right motion carried I'd like to do action items two and three together if I can because they're pretty closely related and um I've had a couple of questions from staff from faculty and staff just asking uh what
021the process is and concerned that tonight would be the final approval of the calendar so I think it's important to note this is just a first reading uh the calendar will now sit on the table for 30 days until our marched Board of Education meeting at which time we'll bring us second um uh recommendation and approval to the board of education but there is still time for individuals to comment on the calendar uh that calendar is available on the website and I know Dr puy you helped to facilitate that and then I know uh Mr Sho you were on that as well so any any comment on calendar can we turn it over to Dr py I I I I I probably said more than I should have in our in the Cal meeting so
022first let me think um Jim Kirkland puts this together and does an amazing job making all of this make sense because it is a task to make the calendar work and we are at the mercy of how many days teachers need to teach how many days 240 um day employees have to work um so in looking at the 2526 calendar because we do have two years um we took some there are two options you have and the First on both calendars um has our typical calendar two days at the beginning of the school to start part um a short fall break arranged around Columbus Day and you know out the first week in May two weeks at Christmas are usual but some of the comments that we got from our employees and from our parents
023which was very helpful is the teachers needed an extra day to prepare for school to start so um one of the changes looking at option two is having three days for Teacher preparation the first day of school and then having Thursday and Friday being our school start days with a split in the alphabet those two days so everyone starts together the following Monday um also instead of having a Monday Tuesday fall break would go to a Friday Monday fall break which seems to make more sense for working families that seems that works better for them um in the 26 27 calendar it was asked that we move things back a week because we were not starting until August the 10th and 11th just the way the calendar flowed um so option two U that will
024be considered is to move the start date back to August 3rd finished a week earlier um but those are some of the first initial changes and suggestions we've gotten and some of the changes we've made based on the Insight we've gotten and we're still taking comments and thoughts um so we'd be happy to take any of that Insight you have and one of the reasons just to comment off off of what Dr py was saying about the 2627 start in in August 3rd instead of the 10th was because we get out where we get out at the end of the year in um for 2025 then or no for sorry for 2026 it would be we'd have a really really long summer followed by a really really short summer so by doing it this way
025we may go back a little bit earlier but it's because we're getting out early in may just because of the way the calendar Falls that so just by explan explanation as to why you know just trying to otherwise we were going to go we were going to go till right at Memorial it was like till May 30th or something like that balance the two balance the two calendars yeah yeah so that was that was the the thought process behind that I think everybody still likes getting the full week of Thanksgiving so trying to preserve that um as well I think we have one e-learning day each year just trying to keep those to minimum yeah we don't feel we can teach our children the fullest but we do want to prepare them in case we
026need to go to an e-learning situation so having one day giv the opportunity to prepare but not too time yep yep so so anyway that was some of the some of the things we discussed in the in the meetings but they're on the table okay very good nothing to do since it's on the table right that's right that's well no we'll approve the first reading oh well okay so sorry about that all right um do I have a motion to approve the uh first reading for 20252 can we do them both on one vote I do you do separate vote okay one vote okay 2025 26 and 26 27 T um calendars on for the first reading do I have a motion to approve that I'll make a motion second second any further discussion all
027right all in favor please say I I you oppos all right motion carried it's on the table for 30 days all right next item next item we have here uh item number four we have four job descriptions we'd like to put before the board for a first reading uh one of the things that we've worked very hard to do and and working with uh our leadership team here at the board is make sure that we are not growing the SE sweet so making sure when Jim does his budget presentation each year he has the pie chart and you can always see we're in that three to 4% range which is on the low end of of the state just in terms of this office and our administrative offices um we've been having conversation about delegation
028of Duties and feel that these job descriptions these four uh put us in a good position to be able to continue to operate here at the board level so at this time I would bring a recommendation for a first reading for these four job descriptions all right I have a motion I'll make a motion second second any discussion all right all in favor please say I I any opposed okay motion carried they're on the table for a first reading all right and that takes us to administrative reports we have two administrative reports this evening uh the first thing that we would like to do is show a video on stem uh created by our own Chad Summers highlighting several our principles uh and then we have a few of our stem teachers that will come
029up and present so Dustin if you don't mind starting that video oh okay all right just go just go to the link okay let's do this why don't we um have our stem teachers come forward let let me just share this it there is a technology conference that's taking place at this time which takes all of our technology teachers to that we appreciate Dustin Reeves filling in for us this evening why don't we start with the teachers if you would come forward and then we'll transition to the video afterwards so if our stem teachers would come forward we'd appreciate it welcome and thank you for being here if you'd introduce yourselves please thank I'm L Phillips and I teach stem at pain Elementary and I just have to say we we're trying to revamp our
030program and start up something freshly new and feel like it's going really well um for us or for me personally I've started a robotics team that we're so proud of and it's I you but the kids are so super excited about it and it's really the program is g a lot of Hands-On learning and it's just taking them into where we need to be setting them up for middle school and high school and do really well um also trying to incorporate regular daily things into our stem unit so teaching flowcharts just something as basic because we make decisions every day when we go to the G the are we going to go get a lunch or are we going to bring her a lunch you know just different things that really teach our basic stuff
031to set us up for ex ex later on so very proud of it thank you I'm El um so Lindsay and I are both teachers at P um it is both our year so we are really trying to um work with the resources that we have but also kind of re the program and one way that um that has been set up at pain is we have put both of our classes together so if you come in and then get in time there is a real full of you 40 50 running around um but that's good that's what supposed to look like so um it's been interesting to learn how to manage um but it is nice to have a co-teacher and of um bounce Offa and really the goal of that was to have
032consistency across the stem program since typically our school um students get a north and a South you know specialist and so to kind of have some consistency across that um one thing we saw as Lindsay was kind of doing the robotics was we had very few girls that were um applying um now of course there are very competitive and Rich for because it is Durrant so that could be aspect but um so I've started a gims program which is girls engaged in math and science um that we're doing dur r with our third graders um to really try to get them to kind of you know because we know the research shows that especially little girls really see themselves as mathematicians and scientists but it's actually the older that they get that that kind of
033shifts and changes and so we want to kind of nurture that Spirit from an uh early aspect and just for us I'm speaking for Lindsay um since Rachel and April are not here we can speak for them or to them um just what an incredible support they have been to us um they are just such a of knowledge and information and just such a good support for us as these ladies have been for starting a program really kind of um reimagining what it could be and so we've just been incredibly grateful for the the support um for and April and these L as well I'm April Smith um I'm the SK teacher at K and um we do sim a little differently in my classroom so we have live action department where the students come
034in and they um role play uh different Star Wars professions on their specific planets so all the different planets have different biomes and they have to build uh products and design solutions for those well in this environment they're learning uh 21st century workfor skills um those skills help them to be successful in what they're doing it gives them problem solving skills it gives them critical thinking processes and it helps them to develop gri um that being the number one thing that I see is successful about doing an immersive learning experience um one of the things that April kind of asked us to share a little bit was an compliment and I will say that I know that that is the best way to teach in my classroom I can get them motivated to do what
035they know they can do they have growth mindset I know that is the best way but sometimes you do question your specific strategy for teaching your is it effective is it efficient you're dealing with time constraints you're dealing with student numbers and you start to think maybe this isn't what I need to be doing maybe I need to to rethink this and you know teach only critical standards and focus on those but um it's kind of funny how the universal step and in this case this year I had a very profound um situation where there was one student in particular he is not that student that goes I love Sim you know I mean he is the kid that's very quiet very well behaved don't have to worry about him but not overly passionate about
036Sim and we have an enrich program that's highly rigorous I it is they are doing High School level prototypes and programming and it's hard he signed up for it and I thought okay all right so he gets in there and he teaches me and that is something that happens but when you are in the moment and you realize that your kid has just taught you something it's it's profound and he did he comes in and we start talking about what his idea is to build his idea is to build this um robotic hand and as you all know that's not the newest idea in the world there are high school students who build us all the time but um he didn't know that for him that was we're going to build a hand just like
037Luke Skywalker and in the real world that people can really use so in that moment I was like okay all right so we start talking about a design we start talking about the process and the programming and he looks at me and he says you know I can do that that almost sent me to tears then I had to like Su up because you know he is a fourth grade boy and you know so anyway and I was like I know you can do it in that time he has never once asked me for help he has I I listen to him talk and he is using the engineering design process and he is using the vocabulary and the problem solving skill spent all this time teaching s and then I was worried that I
038spent so much time on that then he wasn't you know we're not getting what they need they're not getting every single standard in every in the best possible way they are and he taught me that the fact that he was able to sit there and say you know what this at first the stream that we were using was problematic in the last day and for him prob in the first place um but then describing a solution that have was amazing so I he taught me to keep using that strategy to keep using that because it's obviously working and I'm making him a little bit I'm edging him towards his best Heth so that's that's great great thank you thank you I'm Mar long and I'm a St specialist at Magnolia I'm thrilled to share what's
039happening at our school since in our do in 2016 it's been an incredible journey and I started off teaching technology at naolia to all the students as a specialist class but then in 2018 we made a shift to focus on stem and this change has really allowed me and other teachers to grow and to nurture creativity and Innovation among our students and so through the vision of Dr F our principal we have something that's kind of new to magolia this year called our stem station so this is adjacent to the library which is in a former Ampitheater space it's really turned into a vibrant Hub of creativity where we're surrounded by vibrantly colored walls and the theme that's inspired by the engineering design process students and teachers jump into handsome learning that encourages exploration and
040teamwork and we use lots of Cool edtech Tools like bbot hero Indies and various coding platforms and our educators are making their lessons more engaging than ever so the best part is that our students are not only engaged also the those critical thinking and problem solving skills along the way our teachers have been tasked with the challenge of creating lessons that they are conducting in the stem station twice every term at school and so since then they've been diving into all things stem we've been collecting feedback from our teachers too in order to make the experience even better at Magnolia and so through some surveys I've heard a lot of really exciting success stories for instance Miss Thomson who are great teacher shared that this space has transformed her lesson that students are so engaged
041and their confidence is soring Miss Burns who's a first grade teacher said that integrative stem has really boosted collaboration on her students and they really take pride in their so these experiences really highlight the powerful impact that stem can make and that this presentation is having at our school so it's even more exciting to see the skills that they learning over into other areas of the school for instance students are blending stem Concepts into art music counseling physical education like Mr Whit our art teacher getting her students involved with robotics and painting you know they've adapted some things where the weot can create art and our music teacher Mr Moore who has done some lessons in the St station remarked watching the students create music with technology is an incredible they're developing lots of critical
042thinking and creative thinking SK so as we celebrate the success of the stem station and the stem program that we are building atya I want to take a minute to recognize Dr Who is reti this year we know and her vision was to driving for behind the station and her dedication has truly made friend of our school I know that we'll carry Legacy forward and continue to be INSP everything she excuse me as we look ahead we're excited about the things that our students are going to continue to do and I want to say all and ladies if we watch this video and then if there are questions that board members have afterwards if you'd stick around and be available and maybe afterwards we'll revisit personnel and Dr f would like to talk with us
043about uh yeah yeah we're going to keep trying right Lisa we'll keep trying um do you mind playing the video there Mr Rees thank you at Trussville City School stem learning is about more than just science technology engineering and math it's about developing Innovative problem solvers who approach challenges with creativity and confidence our students accomplish this through the engineering design process St education starts early each week our elementary students participate in dedicated stem classes focused on computational thinking and Computing analysis the foundation for future computer science courses in middle and high school students start by building stepbystep algorithms using unplugged activities like programming each other as robots before moving on to coding with tools like Bots as students grow so do their skills after mastering foundational coding Concepts they move on to block-based programming challenges
044learning logic sequencing and debugging along the way and that's just the beginning from there our students dive deep into coding and Engineering bringing their ideals to life thanks to the Amy robotics Grant every school in our district has access to cuttingedge robotics equipment including Bots Vex robotics kits and hummingbird robotics many Innovative stem opportunities are also Al awarded through the trustful City Schools Foundation mush Grant awarded every year and this year trustful City Schools was awarded an Alabama summer and after school Grant allowing us to launch Sunday family stem camps and two weeks of halfday Summer stem camps for elementary students every elementary school has a shared stem space equipped with resources and supported by visiting experts who expand our student skills our stem spaces give students Hands-On access to tools and Technology at Kaba
045Elementary we have the Curiosity cave at Magnolia Elementary there's the stem station and at pain elementary students innovate in the Stream studio and Beyond the classroom students can take home stem kits from the Magnolia Library just like checking out a book they experiment explore and share their discoveries with m Bishop School librarian at kahaba elementary students participate in a Choose Your Own Adventure day where they engage with stem professionals from diverse careers learning firsthand about the skills and tools they use every day and it doesn't stop there based on student Reflections the leadership team organizes extended experiences for students who show interest in specific Fields helping them take their learning even further Trussell is a very historic area um our school is actually a renovation of a 1938 building and the history around here is
046as rich as anywhere in our country um we our librarian did a en Rich called trustful 36d where our students went out they learned about all the things that are in trustful and they created a VR um that was posted for a while it was on our chamber page um but they and then of course this year they presented them to their parents it's so much fun to see parents holding VR go Goggles looking at that but um they learn so much and they're more passionate about wanting to do service in their Community now a highlight of the year is the enrich showcase at pay Elementary over 12 weeks students dive deep into many courses based on their interests led by passionate teachers some of the top experiences that students have been in interested in
047is the robotics golf where they designed the golf course and I I've actually I'm in awe of what they do I don't know how they do it but um it it's incredible and to bring in the community to like test their Golf Course um segments and the um I don't know what they're called the hazards they put in there or um is pretty exciting stem at trustful City Schools isn't just about student learning it's about empowering teachers our teachers participate in stem specific professional development stepping into the role of students to strengthen their own skills to design immersive experiences that engage all students stem education at Trussville City Schools is held to the highest standards and that's why all three of our elementary schools Gaba Magnolia and pain went through a rigorous evaluation process to
048achieve cognus stem certification this certification isn't just a badge it represents a commitment to Excellence in stem education each School met or exceeded 10 stem standards focusing on processes highquality stem courses and curriculum professional learning communication Community Partners authentic inquiry and inch school and extracurricular opportunities stem education in trust bille City Schools is about preparing students for the future building critical thinkers innovators and problem solvers and with Innovative programs passionate Educators and incredible student opportunities the future is bright we can't wait to see what our teachers and students create [Music] next all right ladies we certainly appreciate you being here today and all that you're doing for our students in the area of stem and I I think the results are speak speaking for themselves just the great programs that you've put together so members
049of the board anything you like to share I had a question how is it how are the children the students access this is it every grade gets a certain amount of time in stem is it is it involved in each class how does that work soia all of the students have stem specials that they attend on a rotation okay four days we see all the different throughout the day also teachers sign out to use the St station the idea and hope is that all of the skills and things that they learn there will begin to flow out into their classroom okay a little different at every school like our school we have um we don't we we have classes every day um so we'll have every grade level every day Monday Tuesday Wednesday and Friday
050and then on Thursday is when we do our enrich program okay thank you very gool very fun all right next item that we have in terms of um administrative reports I know that this is something that coach Walker has been working on a lot over the last several months and he's brought uh with him tonight our team from night ed0 this is just an update would you say it's it's fair to say this were sort of at the midterm of this project so uh wanted to make sure that as they were progressing uh through the brand in project that uh they were updating the board as well so I'll turn things over to coach Walker and his team over the last couple of months um they nighted has done a lot of work um in
051terms of interviews focus groups surveys Etc so they are uh just here tonight to go through those research results with us so thank you all uh for coming well I'd first just like to say thank you um for having us back today um it's great to see you all again um my name is massud toor bad I'm the director of strategy at 80 and one of the individuals that's working Hands-On with the the development of this project um last time we came a few maybe a month or so back um we shared a vision for communicating a unified and meaningful brand identity for the trustful City School System um and I'm excited to share kind of the progress that we've made so far I will say following the faculty and teachers that shared that stem
052there's probably little in this that's going to surprise anyone um because that's the brand of trustful City Schools right there I can speak for myself like if I had had teachers so dedicated in a school system so supportive of cool initiatives like that like I might have a different perspective on engineering and stem I love my job but if I was building Star Wars hands in elementary school I might be doing something different this day um but tonight I want to talk through through um some of the the recently completed research phase I want to share some key insights that we've heard from the community and outline the next steps in our process so you can see a little bit here this um this timeline that we've got um and and hopefully we'll we'll spend
053a little bit of time answering some questions if you have any um the pace of the meeting has been moving pretty well so I don't want to derail that with too much but obviously want to respect the the in information that we were um that we have collected over time so um our primary goal in this phase was to listen to hear directly from the people who live work and learn in this school system we've gathered extensive Community input and I'm here to provide an unbiased summary of their perspective as well as a brief look in the next steps of the process so over the past several weeks um as Lance um indicated we have um in order to make sure that we had a good and well-rounded understanding of the community's views we took
054a two-pronged approach to collecting some research both surveys and focus groups and as you can see there through the surveys we collected about 500 responses um from parents students teachers and faculty these responses provided us with a broad perspective of how the community perceives the current brand and what they would like to see in the future we also conducted four focus groups um with 50 participants and a little bit more um including parents teacher teachers faculty and community members even some folks in the room today um these conversations allowed us to dive a little bit deeper into the specific thoughts and emotions um and expectations that regards this system's identity our goal in this research was not to make assumptions um but to ensure that The Branding process is Guided by real input from the
055people it represents again to listen so that we can understand and then act so now this report has a lot of information I kind of alluded to this a second ago it's not it's it's intended to be a comprehensive representation of all the feedback we've collected um but I'm I'm not going to go through all of it in depth today it's obviously available for for um to be shared with whoever would like to look at it deeply um but I'm going to fly through some of the high points and try to highlight the things that stood out um what I will say is that there was a lot of overlapping thoughts um obviously there was some conflicting opinions on how things look or feel because everybody has an is entitled to their own opinion on
056things but there was a general consensus around the most pivotal sentiments which again I would say is expressed very clearly through just that little snippet of one thing that some of these schools are doing to pour into the students um so starting on the survey side which you're seeing here which I would be surprised if you can read much of this again it's it's very in-depth but um the survey covered key topics such as the overall brand perception strength weaknesses and the current identity some preferences towards a little modernization versus tradition what does that balance look like expectations for more of a unified look across the board so for us these responses give gave us a clear Direction on the aspects of the brand that should be preserved refined and standardized um so you can
057see some of the key takeaways um most of them insights down here in this bottom left side so I know you probably hard to read but color preferences mascot sentiment logo design elements Athletics integration and some other Inspirations were a lot of what we kind of tried to pull from on the color side and I I'll talk through this as we go through but red and white as a big a big favorite black was also mentioned um the mascot sentiment was actually a very resounding approval of the um currently used husky head I think all around the board there's a lot of a lot of love for that um couple of little thoughts on maybe how we can enhance some of the um traditional elements of the community by using a little bit more of
058a modern look on some some elements I think that was a common thought um and then the Athletics integration was really the sentiment there was more around unifying UniFi unifying um some of those elements um and then there's also a couple of um Inspirations that we saw so um what you'll see here again as I've alluded to there's a lot we've broke down we we took the survey responses and allocated a little bit of a breakdown for each one of the schools so I'll try to spend I know there's some folks from each of the schools here that probably want to just spend the whole time looking at their school but I'll try to move through each one of them and highlight like I mentioned there's there's a lot of overlapping sentiments that would make
059sense from a school system obviously a lot of folks um there's a lot of care for safety and encouragement and dedication to the students excellence and so that was a lot that was covered but what I will do right here on this kahaba slide is at least show you what's the breakdown of this so if you do want to look at each one of these in more depth later you can spend some time on that but on the top left you'll see we kind of give a distribution of who Took or who were the survey participants for um thoughts on Kaba and so you can see a large portion of that was teacher and staff there were some parents and then there are some a few folks that would get titled parent and staff and
060so I kind of wanted to highlight those separately because they may have separate perspectives um as we move across the top and then kind of in that middle those two word clouds you can see there those are questions around what is your preferred perception of the school just like what is the school what do you what do you want the school to to feel or look like this one in the middle is more of what does it currently feel like like what do you feel when you see the school um and so for both of those you can see some of those key words that stand out that are somewhat generic but also the words that you want to see and you want to be representative um on this left going back to the left
061side we've got a few key words that we want want to highlight or that were that were overwhelmingly used um and listed as what are the five words you want someone to see we we asked a couple of questions around what were some differentiators about your school versus other schools like it um and then you can see on this left or this far right side we've got um we ask questions around what were some items you want to preserve what were items you want to remove what were some items that you think would be cool to add and so for Kaba you can see the school building is an is a an iconic piece as someone who lives in the trustful area I know that school I go to the park all the time and
062like I mean it's it's iconic for sure um colors the community feel there's a little bit of that that you see in that logo that that there wants that wants to be maintained um I think there's some font questions around items to remove it was like There's different two different types of fonts some of them's hard to read um so some good insights and thoughts on that as well um so we can move on to and this is I may move a little quicker through here so Magnolia um we had a similar breakdown but there was actually more parents that took um the survey for the Magnolia feedback um a lot of some similar sentiments as I said before around the students dedication welcoming caring um and then as you look at this very very
063tiny little depiction of a image that was that is primarily used for Magno entry um some thoughts on preservation is there was some liking of the Paul print itself is there a way to integrate the Paul it seems like that's something that were some some some likings to that um the usage of the words maybe not how they're used but those words they felt did embody Magnolia so they wanted so there was some thoughts on could you change the words a little bit or or design them slightly different but maybe the sentiment still expressed um again the font was one that was maybe not so much of everyone's favorite it's kind of hard to read um and then some symbols down at the bottom that they suggested are just like hey what if we included
064a little bit more um for example there were some thoughts like similar to the the school building of Kaba is there something that just embodies who the school is um that maybe Works in tandem with a Paul or slightly different so um we can move on to our next one here is pain Elementary um a large portion of parents that participated in this one um again safety informed was a key word that stood out from pain they felt like there was a lot of good communication from the teachers and staff um items to preserve um they did like the use of the school building that Atri I think is what you would call that um again it's a it's a recognizable feature of the school and so there was thoughts of like hey what if
065we kept this what if we incorporated some of that the Paw Prints are also in there and there were some likings of the Paw Prints um obviously the use of the school name is important um but this is where you'll see I kind of mentioned some conflicting opinions you have some people right on the other side of that would say no I don't really like the paw print I don't want the school building in there it takes up too much space and so you we'll take a little bit of of everybody's balance bed perspectives and and keep that in consideration um there was some thoughts of the of keeping or adding a couple more of the Husky elements down there um and then some more of the Community Focus pieces so we can move on
066to the Middle School um again a large portion of parents a lot of the same similar words um that are hopefully this is honestly this is a good thing because it means the school system is already unified in a lot of sentiment it's just how do we express it in a unified way and I think that's the key piece of this project is is the visual visual identity pieces and assets that can help communicate what everyone already feels and knows about the school system um so the the interlocking HT is a loved piece it's a staple and so obviously that's something for both the middle school the high school and obviously um thoughts in the Athletics marks as well that would be important um colors they like the colors and the shape um felt like
067it symbolized a good school look and the school the way that you should represent a school um some thoughts on maybe the Husky elements some questions around the font um but then again there's some folks that said they you know the circle seems too standard can we try to mix it up do something different that's fine with that so we'll go to the high school um you could see again a lot of the similar words I promise this is not just a repeat of all of the same slides but again it's an encouragement towards what is the school system doing well um a few more parents and staff that would be on um that connected there that have participated in the survey but a large portion of just parents um a lot of similar um
068feelings towards that interlocking HT the color usage and the circle um I will say there was a few comments about the similarity to the Middle School um some really liked it they felt like it was very integrated it made the school systems feel like they were together um and then there was obviously some thoughts that were well it's too similar to middle school you can't really you can't tell a difference and maybe from where you're sitting right now if you looked up at that you may not not honestly be able to tell that much of a difference between the high school and the Middle School logo is that a bad thing we can play with some options of what we think may do better but I think they the community at well at least recognized
069that and had some good and some bad for it um some folks also indicated for the high school the clock tower is an important piece and like is there maybe some some notion for that as a visual aid to to communicate the brand so we'll keep that in mind as well and then following up next we add we actually did send out a survey specifically to the students and I believe that's what's up next here for us so the students we asked just students um to get to answer a lot of the same questions for the high school and um it was again very similar I will make a note that there was a lot of comments about the success and appreciation for all of the extracurriculars and opportunities there on top of it it
070wasn't just sport focused it wasn't just um arts and science is focused I mean there was a lot of recognition from all of the responses that there is an option to do whatever you want to do um and there's encouragement for that um again some very similar items to preserve remove um and to add um so then from here we'll move into the Athletics piece obviously Athletics is a very important um part of communicating a brand and so um it's probably one of the ones that folks recognize and have the most interaction and touch points with so it's really important to make sure we get this portion right as well so um what you see here is a depiction of what folks think um I'll I'll tell you the way we worded this question at
071the top which is again probably the most sensitive portion of this project is going to be around some of this um and so we we're being very careful with that um what this tells us again this is just we're just listening so the question we asked at the top was what would you consider to be the official logo for H trustful Athletics and so this we gave them these options and you can see how folks responded so it's the biggest thing that I noticed from this is a little bit of an opportunity for better consistency and so even in the fact that there's a little bit of a range here folks would say that this more block HT is the actual logo and then you've got a chunk of folks who would say know it's
072the Husky fast logo is the official logo and so you can kind of just see there's a range here um similar with the colors we asked for the official colors and just we asked you to list them we gave them uh five blanks and we said list them in order of priority and which one is is the main color and work your way through that so you can kind of see a little bit of the differences again apologize apologies for the small text here but um we've got red white black red white gray red white black and gray red gray white black and so you can kind of see again there's just just a wide range of what folks would tell you are the official colors um that are used by the Athletics group um
073down here at the bottom again we ask similar questions around well what are some items that you would want to make sure stay included or preserved what are some items you want to include um you can see some of that the the interlocking HT is is obviously important they like the boldness of really all the logos are bold the use of color in the logo um and then I'll jump over again just as a reiteration for the husky head there was really strong ratings for approval of that husky so obviously it's a it's a really great Mark um and there's there's a lot of great use for that um and we did ask a couple we asked a question about what are some brands that and this was really more for us just to hear
074some things but like what are some brands that you like and you know how does that relate so some good insight there and then this next slide is a version from the students and so the only note I'll make on this one is you can see it's not much different for the ultimate takeaway which is there is a range of opinions on what is official and what is um the the the proper color um pallette for the school so um you can see again the Husky fast did get the largest portion of who would say that's the official logo um but again you've got a few others in here that are not that far behind um awesome okay so the survey we got a lot of really good insights from that I'm going to try
075to pick up my Pace just slightly here um so as we move on to this next one here we can talk through the focus group so part of the value of a focus group for us is it allows us to dig deeper into some like why do you think the way you think how do you feel about this and so we conducted like I said four different focus groups and each one of those had 10 to 12 people in them um and it was a range of community members teachers faculty administrators um so it was a good good good mix of folks to allow to get some more insights into that um so you'll see as we flip through there's a similar slide call out for each one we also included one for the trustful
076City school system as a whole um and so you'll see just there's some items about what's liked what's disliked we actually showed them each logo we talked through it we said what do you like about this logo what do you not like and so what I'll do here for the sake of time is kind of just highlight what are some of the key takeaways that we saw so for the this the trustful City School System um there was an opportunity there there was likings of the um what the expression is trying to convey maybe let's just modernize it a little bit that was kind of what we heard a lot of um they like the use of the husky head in there um but is there a way to kind of continue to emphasize the
077connections across academics and arts and Athletics all together and I think that's a little bit of what's tried to be used there so again modernization was a was a comment as like we like the what what was aiming for let's just maybe try to try to bring it up a little bit um we can move on to Kaba um some of the thoughts here were can we just take again take the sentiments polish it a little bit make it a little easier to read um the circular logo structure was appreciated um and the building as a central element was also appreciated um and I see nodding heads here too which is indicates some understanding of that as well um we'll move on to Magnolia um this one is is probably the trickiest because even when
078we were reaching out asking for the official logo for mag there was a little bit of well I don't know that we have like really what you would call a logo but we have some imagery that we use a lot and so this is actually an image that is used um heavily in communicating the brand and so there was a little bit more specific thoughts on what could be a better option for Magnolia um this you know can we make it a little cleaner um there was actually usage of the words clip art and a lot of the conversations it feels clip Arty how can we make that a little bit better um and then um maybe creating a balanced look that matches some of the other schools as well like this just looks so
079different a lot of the other ones have some sort of circular oval oval structure and this one is just so different and so is there a way to kind of connect some of that together um so move on to pain um again a cleaner and simplifi design um I think the font was a conversation that was pretty primary here is it feels like that's just a really basic font um there's some detail within the building itself that is like really nuanced that's kind of tough um so that was some some comments that were made there um there was again but I mentioned before from the surveys also in the focus groups the building inclusion was important and they appreciated that moving on to the Middle School um I mentioned this in the survey and it's
080some similar findings in the focus group is that the matching of the high schools is appreciated um some of the conversation was around what if there was another Middle School that came to be where does that fit within the rest of this would one school feel too connected to the high school and one of them not feel connected and so we had some good conversations of around that and some thoughts to to definitely help spur us forward and then on the high school side um there was pretty good approval of of this it's it's it's more just refining some some some thoughts here at least that's what the the sentiments expressed um there's some good you know Timeless it's modern yet Timeless it's a classic design um I think maybe there's some there were some
081conversations that you can see that we talked through around is there opportunities to pull the HT out of the full circle and does that do the words and the name need to be included but um it in in of itself was a is a pretty understood staple and recognized Mark so that's on the high school side and then I believe the next one is Athletics yes and so um no surprise here in the way the conversations went also in the focus groups around what's the official logo um it was spread out but the only surprise is which one actually got the primary um recognition which for this one it was more of that classic HT lockup um but there was still a decent amount of discrepancy around who would say what was the most official
082one um the Husky we talked a little bit about the husky head as well loves lots of love um only concerns that we heard from folks were well the you know the the elementary school likes to maybe use some of the softer looks on on husky heads so uh it feels more connected to them this feels a little harsh and rigid is that something to to think about but um for the most part the husky head it's a recognizable staple and it's and it had a lot of really good sentiment okay awesome um so I think we can move to this next one um from here again like I said there's this was a really high flyover um but I wanted to kind of just end here by showing where we're going so research for
083us listening that's all we're doing is we just want to hear honestly hearing even the stem teacher talk was even more encouraging and enlightening for me to just listen to that to make sure okay that's what I want this brand to communicate um so from here what's next for us on the horizon is what we call stylescape process and so for someone like me who actually I know I work at a marketing agency but I tend to be a little bit more of the analytical thinker I get words and numbers um making things pretty and visual is where I have our whole creative team and I like to lean on them for that so what we call the stylescapes it's more of like a um Advanced mood board and it's what can start taking it's
084really the bridge between words numbers everything and then starts putting it into some kind of pictoral elements to make sure okay if we had a logo or a series of logos that fit on this page would it match with everything around it yes okay then we know we're going in the right direction so that's where we're headed to next we're actually working on that right now and hope to have it concluded here in the next few weeks um here in early March so so hopefully we'll we'll be able to to share some of those updates soon and then following that once we get that we'll know we're on the right track and that's when logo design will start and we're hoping to have logo design phase finished up um early into J June and then
085really the key piece of everything is this file this final um style guide and that's kind of be the the culmination of everything and that's one of the biggest pieces we've talked through through here is creating some consistency and and that's what a style guide can do is it tells you here's exactly who the brand is this is who trustful City schools are every every one of the schools and here's how you talk about us here's how you use visual aids um to support communication so um again hopefully that wasn't too long-winded for everyone I would love to answer a few questions if you have any um but again thank you so much for letting me be here so when you did the surveys this is just curiosity did you send them out to every
086parent and teacher that's just the on you got back yes ma'am so we distributed it we had help from the um I think Lance and his team was yep oh okay and the circle you're talking about the HT that's that's the circle we talking about yes ma'am any other questions awesome okay thank you all so much thank you all right uh no one has signed up to uh to speak tonight so I will entertain a motion to adjourn move second second all right have a good night everybody thank you