001Chris Brown here ky gr here Nancy Hopper Jess here John here Smith here it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for [Music] all you have before you uh the previous board minutes pleasure of the board move to the appr second Chris Brown hi a gr hi Nancy Hopper hi J hi John hi SMI hi next we have the agenda pler the board to approve second roll call please Chris Brown hi Amy Gram hi Nancy Hopper hi Katie Jess hi John FY hi Smith hi sah whitne hi at this time we have special presentation for in high school Career and Technical Ed okay so we're part of the CTE programs atan High School um so we're going to talk a little bit about them next so um about C we have and
002which it just prepares students for practical everyday life in high demand careers with hand Hands-On skills that they're going to need um and in Industry certifications um it provides opportunities to earn credentials and different certifications that they're going to need throughout their life and has it boost job prospects and earning Po and then SC stof skill development U it strengthens critical skills like teamwork communication and problem solving that are all needed for the workplace also we have higher gradate rates so students in CTE programs um are more likely to graduate on time and succeed postgraduation um with all the skills that all the CTE programs have we also build Partnerships with local businesses for internships appren apprenticeship and mentorships next so we're part of FAA I'm Le Frasco I'm one of the co-presidents and I'm
003Elizabeth Whitney I'm also New World skill you're going to learn with that is um it teaches you practical skills such as budgeting marketing Financial leadership and Entrepreneurship which are all things that you're going to actually need um it also teaches you some college readiness um and that offers you Advanced coursework and opportunities to learn earn college credits um we also have some career preps So It prepares students for business related careers with foundational knowledge and management accounting and economics and there's also leadership development which encourages leadership skills through group projects presenting an extracurricular activities such as fpla and then benefits of fpla you develop business and Leadership skills you it provides you hand hands on experiences through events and service projects it also focuses on teamwork communication and problem solving as well as offers offers
004Network opportunities with industry professionals as well as it empowers students next okay so first we have leadership development F helps students develop leadership skills through officer roles conferences and Leadership training um we also have Community impact so FAA promotes service through projects like fundraising for causes such as the Alzheimer's awareness which we partner with and volunteering in the community we also have state and National recognition so F provides students with the opportunity to compete and Excel at State and National levels bringing recognition to the school um and then for career preparation students gain practical business skills and experience through competitive events workshops and mentorship opportunities that you can get and then Student Success FBLA members are uh they often achieve higher um academic success they develop strong resumes and um are better prepared for call
005College and careers next FCCLA isn't in um attendance tonight they're out of time I'll be reading their slides for them so the benefits of family and consumer classes at fmhs is they have personal and finance skills as well as culinary skills such as cooking storing safety and sanitation um career preparation and Child Development skills so the benefits of being a member of FCCLA is Communication Service opportunities leadership skills travel competition opportunities local state and National membership as well as interpersonal skills and then some FCCLA highl highlights is making memories with PE and adults daring to dream in a safe environment making a difference in your community and learning about FACS careers hey hi my name is R Smith I am the FFA president and I'm GNA talk to you about FFA SL our um agriculture
006Department thanks so what are some benefits of our agriculture Department um many shop skills so you learn how to build things you learn how to assemble things you learn how to measure you learn how to redit tape measure um also um not in the shop side is our uh like our farm to table classes which are where you learn about where your food comes from and believe it or not a lot of people don't know where your food comes from they think that they just go to the store and they have it somewhere in the back and that is not where your food comes from if you did not know that so you learn that in in those classes um there's Communication in those classes that you're being taught how to communicate better with presentations
007and you're also required to give a speech each year so you have to give a speech each year in that class about an AGR related topic also you're learning more skills about personal finance we also teach a a business class so how to run a business um more related to agriculture um so you also learn those skills and also some career skills in classes next what are some benefits of being an FFA member so we have your ad classes right and then you have your FFA which is the club okay so you get Career Development um we do these events called cdes which is Career Development events and there's many of them there's there's bed science there is horse judging and all those things you do a different type of skill that's preparing you for
008the job you want to take on After High School or if you are just looking at those jobs you also learn a lot of leadership there's many leadership roles you can go to many conventions many uh workshops many uh all all that type of stuff you also travel one of the big ones we're going to talk about later on the next slide is National Convention you get to go to many places being a part of FFA also teamwork as you can see in the picture uh this is when our state officers came and they made us do all these fun activities if that's what you want to call them um but we uh we had fun with them and uh they uh built our teamwork together uh as a FFA chapter uh you also get
009networking you work together with all the different chapters in the United States so FFA is a National Organization um and you work together with all kinds of different chapters meeting new people um so there's your networking and then also some community service outreaches pop up in FFA as well than so some highlights uh leadership development we have many also instead of our CDE events we have leadership development events which is that is more um your speaking that I talked about earlier uh that you're required to do we have speaking events um prepared speaking uh extemporaneous speaking things like that you also get more character development uh without FFA I would not be the person I am today because I have not uh I was not a very good leader uh before coming to high school
010and being a part of FFA and I've learned how to become a better leader and how to speak in front of all you and be okay and not freaking out um so that has been uh one of the uh benefits of FFA also you have a huge Community impact we do aot lot of things in the community um especially uh here coming up in aprilay we're going to take our fourth graders and we're going to take them out on tours around to the dairy and we used to take them to the airport um and we take them all around and we just teach them more about agriculture um and we try and get that impact there as well as in uh community service activities uh like I've been talking about our career preparation uh each
011student in uh FFA is required to have an SAE which a is a supervised agriculture experience for example I work at UH landscaping and feed store so that's my SAE so you are required to have a SAE to where you learn more about a and you're showing that you can do the things that you're learning in class and putting it to work also we do state and District competitions for our CDE and our lde events have stuff to pass around so F or Mish does 3D printing so you can all have one and then we also have these [Music] windows pass pass get one of these and then you and they stick to your windows they look backwards but like you put them on the window there's instructions on the back too yeah is there
012a is there a place where we can purchase more swag don't we have um to support the clubs yes we have Mustang Avenue at the high school um L runs it sometimes also other clubs run as well and that's where a lot of art t-shirts must like Mustang sell more 3D printed items that M and her class thank you very much that was great yes thank you for sharing [Applause] takes work thank you for supporting kids all right opportunity for public comments guys so this month has been pretty busy our student Senate is do a fundraiser where whatever teacher gets the most donations under their name to get a p so that's really exciting Mr Anderson's in that so we'll see if he gets cross um our spring Sports start in two weeks so that's
013exciting our wrestling teams boys and girls are sending wrestlers to State eight for the boys and four for the girls oura had their like e [Music] so we kind of divide and conquered and our message was clear that we want make sure that Ida is supported special ed and this is not the time to abolish the Department of Education and um one of the last things I have to say is at the very end we were getting ready to leave and I got into an elevator and if you've ever been they've got a basement with the tunnels and so forth and you can get from building to building but anyway I was getting in the elevator and one of the gentlemen all decked out his nice little suit said asked me where I was from
014and I said Colorado and he asked me where I wear in Colorado and I said well Fort Morgan and he looked at me kind of strange and his relatives live in brush it is a small world um so along that point the other thing is we flew in um into rean National Airport the the day the full day after the accident and so that was a very sobering event for us flying in and out it's beautiful to see The Monuments when you come in if you've ever floated to see at Reagan you fly right over the the patomic and we were able to see all all of that going on was very next we have the superintendent report okay thank you um first item on there I have the 25 26 school calendar I don't
015know how many of you you guys have actually served on a school calendar committee before but typically they don't go so well um there's usually a lot of special interests a lot of things that come out those people come out of them I'll say in the last three years we've changed that and actually this one we had Tuesday night this last week got in a calendar and we said here is what we think it should be here's a blank one so you can create one if you want to and can't remember which one it was but the current years oh the current years so they could look and see what what what we did and compare it and so we spent some time talking and and we had them in groups and we said you
016know talk about what you like about this what you don't like about this because you're going to have to go back to your schools and come back and we'll have another meeting and we'll talk about this and and uh finally uh somebody said we kind of like this calendar can we just take this one and not have another meeting I said that's really up to you guys I don't know if that's uh you know go back to your schools get some feedback and then send b emails which today she's received one I believe actually by now I've gotten additional ones and everybody's you know positive and said they they like it yeah so they have till tomorrow to tell us whether or not or actually Wednesday is Wednesday to tell us whether we need to
017have another meeting or not but at this point we believe the calendar is probably pretty close to being done and it'll be back in front of you guys to approve here I would say probably by the end of March we still have to meet as administrative team to put in the professional development days and all those other things in there which we'll want to do that to you but very pleasant committee uh very nice uh I think we're out of there in about 30 less than 30 minutes I think it was so um nobody really argued to want to stay and change a whole lot there anyway that's that um there is a grant so I think I've talked to you guys in the past about our playgrounds and particularly at our elementaries that are
018all five of them are worn out and they're not Ada accessible and any new playground you build has to be Ada accessible rules around and so we had budgeted to do one playground this year um we're guessing about $150,000 it may be more than that we're not 100% sure but we budgeted for that and then we said we'll just do one a year for the next five years unless we find some additional funding so I went out and um we we wrote a grant for the uh Colorado Heth Foundation uh we just turned it in hit submit last week and I won't take all credit for it there's a lady by the name of Tammy finger who's done several grants for me in the past and she wrote this grant for us with a lot
019of our input but uh we should hear something back on that shortly it's kind of an interesting take to health Foundation they want you to have a planning year and I'm just saying we're planed um but they want you to have this planning year and then they have gosh they have so much money to do things with around I think it was about 250,000 is what we asked for so the first school we're going first school we're doing money I think is Baker the second school on the on the list is uh Pioneer and that's the one we wrote the grant for um and then we'll just go from there see if we can get them all replaced um just lots of new requirements on them um so hopefully we hear back from that um
020and then the last thing I have on here is um I was hit up the other day by the commissioner of Education I think Dr I would be willing to sit down with the commissioner and do they do this chat with the commissioner once a month where you sit down and you talk about things that are going on in your District they had heard about our attendance efforts with our um panel that we have our community panel that we put together they had also heard about some of our efforts around teacher Recruitment and so the commissioner wants to visit with us about um what we done you order because right now according to CDE I had the numbers here somewhere but our Hance rate went up like 5% or something like that I can't remember
021what these up but it's showing a nice increase over the last few years um again I'm not I told her I said I don't know if I can necessarily attribute to everything we've done quite yet we've done a lot of things um but what we can say is kids are coming to school 91% daily attendance rate across the district so um that's pretty darn good um and then to throw in there with the high school seeing um a fiveo jump in the graduation rate um some good things are going on and starting to happen so um just wanted you to know about that I think it's a webinar a zoom meeting I don't know um it's the 21st at like 3:30 so we'll see so that's my report ass superintend my only report this evening
022is um thank goodness um Federal funding um is not on the pause because we were um got a letter last week we put in for the empowering action for school Improvement grant for both Green Acres Pioneer and the high school and we have been awarded 320,000 we got all of the money we asked for so um Green Acres will be going through a exploration through the diagnostic review we're going to use the same consultant that we've used for um the other schools that we've done diagnostic reviews for on Consulting with Cindy Ward and then the $240,000 of that is for Fort Morgan high school and for Pioneer Elementary and um I've met with the whole admin team at the high school on Friday and met with Adriana and the work is really around implementation work
023on all of the work that we put plugged into their unified Improvement plan there are just going to be dollars attached to all of that work and Cindy Ward will be walking along um side us for the next couple years for um to make sure that that we're implementing well so super excited about that and to just keep the work moving forward questions next for E assistant superintendent of in good evening um you have the uh personal action report in front of you uh for approval tonight we've got a little bit more movement inif area um than we would anticipate um not quite sure what's been on there but just some recent stuff in the last week or so um active job postings um we have posted all of our critical shortage our perent subs
024and um our adjunct position that's K kindergarten position um we are up to 46 certified openings that are posted right now um I know that's a little scary um in the scheme of things but 20 21 of those were critical shortage 18 those are per sub and adjunct um and then we have five positions that we posted that were are currently contract positions in our special education department right now that we're still looking to have an employe in our district doing that work uh we have one Administration posting take classified and then rest just our normal coaching and uh sub positions uh coming up for future planning we have our recommendations for advancement coming up um bring our Administration uh recommendations on March 244th are certified on April 7th and are classified on April 21st
025um after those approvals uh early to miday we'll soon to have our um intention return forms and uh contracts out for the following school year um we also have and it's not out there but you'll you'll have it as a discussion item um we are bringing for a provision to our um administrative SEC policy um specifically around attorney Le to match what we did with our uh certified and our classified employee groups um and we needed to update that and match that so more than happy to talk about that if You' be be closer um the only other thing and I don't have it up there as well um had an opportunity uh to participate in a grant discussion talk last week uh for safer schools um they're looking to engage us in a fully
026funded um Grant opportunity to put um radios in every school probably up to about eight radios in every school in every building in those events of a critical incident situation we' have direct communication with uh law enforcement Emergency Management and so forth um up until that point where law enforcement think can take it back over um looking to engage that is fully is no not a matching Grant situation um there are a number of school districts from grey this direction um that have participated in and uh it seems to be grant for us to to consider so we'll be moving forward with that next uh few weeks when the grant opens up in March thank you thank you and then F Chief Financial Officer well I'm happy report I have nothing to report tonight but
027I'll certainly entertain any questions you might have on my previous presentations on to discussion items five a for Moran High School registration guide for 2526 school year Mr Anderson should have brought gifts that's that's what I learned give them gifts you know okay you can tell us to donate to your bu base fund uh it's in the Commons during lunch so right now I'm not in the lead but you know fingers crossed I say that way um yeah there story but uh thank youall uh this is the registration guys uh this is the process we kind of go through uh we detour our departments to kind of go through get their recommendations and then we put it our students to kind of get uh their requests and then we take all the information we put
028it together to kind of build our master schedule for the 526 uh school year so for the most part uh our registration guide changes are all summarized for you uh there's not a whole lot uh to change probably the two biggest areas that we ever changing is our family consumer science classes we're looking to at kind of tweaking the the catering uh program a little bit and get more in depth uh with possibly looking at kind of a coffee shop kind of model and then also like more of a bakery uh kind of class there seems to be more interest in that area and then uh Dr Frasco and uh L Frasco our instruction coach last meeting talked to you a little bit about uh the math changes that are that we've kind of gone
029through and looked at uh tweaking those and bringing in more of an integrated uh model versus the algebra geometry Algebra 2 that has traditionally done when we started looking at our SAT data a lot of 10th graders are in Geometry but yet the test was only about 25% geometry so we were seeing some some lower scores there so I think this will help our scores I'm not saying it's going to solve all all the problems but I think it's a good concept and so we'll kind of there there will be kind of a a transition year uh with some of our students that may have been into uh as we transition into out one into like an integrated two but the the hope is to kind of supplement and just kind of make sure that
030there there's no major gaps um with that geometry kind of being integrated in there um and then there is a new uh data science course we um are going to offer kind of some different math classes there's a going to be a statistics class and then there's more of a data science which is going to have some computer programming aspects to it um so uh L Frasco and humanman Sh went to a conference and really kind of came back with some ideas as far as we need to be able to use some programming with some of our math classes and so integrating that into this side of things um yeah and I think there's a few other minor changes as far as courses switching from year long to semester long um that's that's just more
031for our scheding purposes to get different classes in for different needs so are there any questions for me anything I need to I don't know any questions necessarily I know on page 27 we're looking at the for the graduation Pathways actually cor uh because we voted in the fourth pathway now um so I went back to ikf the policy that we just approved and I actually found that that policy was wrong it needs to be updated as well thank you okay I will get that updated yeah so I think because I was looking at ikf and we still have like the speech in there and computer lry and stuff like that so we have to need to get some updating I will get with Kim Baker's our regar she's the one that kind of oversees
032this document and does lot of great things so I'll I'll T that up yeah so I just saw the college now was uh I I do want to add one thing uh so back uh two weeks ago me and Jad took a visit up to Summit High School they're one of the only high schools uh in the state that we found that does version and so there might be I might have to come back uh all at a later date with a class that is a dual language Merion course they have said that it's more successful to find a good teacher and then put that teacher in a course that they are very familiar with English that they speak Spanish so uh for example they had a health teacher was a really good health teacher
033but could speak Spanish so they had a new language health class that teacher left they were not able to offer dual language Health anymore so so I got to find a really good teacher that can speak Spanish in their content area and so I'll be bringing that back to y'all sometime um this spring so for the most part of this tration got complete but I do want to add that I probably will be back later with uh a course or two that we need to add just for a dual language kids as they come up to the high school next year so I guess I have a question then because this is an action item down below so are we going to remove this then until we have the items that I would prefer you
034not so that would because what it would just mean is that we' hold up our process we couldn't do course recommendations and student requests and that would just push back us building our master schedule so I would say can we move forward with this in this because the Dual language is only a smaller number kids it's not a huge deal to our master schedule but if we can't move forward with the master schedule and course request until we have the registration data okay so I guess what I would so then going to the other uh a policy I yeah that one um does that need to be addressed before this as [Music] well I understand your concern but I just want to make sure we're doing it the rightly when I look at ikf I
035I haven't at it in a while but um it seems like we a long time ago so we've been operating under the policy for a while now I think so it's just updating the policy but is have anything to do with the so I think we actually update the policy start that process the next meeting and then if what they can do at the high school is actually put together and fix the issues that we have pass that tonight and then once that's done I can either email it out to all of you or we can have it presented at the next board meeting but I don't think you're going to hold up the process because I know what it's like to try by 150 p and it's not easy oh I don't understand so
036I guess what I would ask then is whoever makes that motion kind of incorporates just okay any further questions thank you next we have five b first reading District revision policy G cc- administrative staff yeah so really it's the there's just a couple changes in there but um we've left the the maximum number of days at 20 for normal um sick leave requests uh that would be with the maximum M number five is where where we address the maternity leave um to be up to six weeks so in that case the way it's written we have some administrators that are on 5 day weeks and some that are on four day weeks and so six weeks is a different number of days depending on the employee so we just put up to a maximum of
037six weeks um to kind of um align with what our certified language is questions questions we're good moving on to consent agenda pleas board Chris Brown Amy gron hi ncy Hopper hi Katie Jess hi John py hiy Smith hi s w action item 7A the fort margan High School registration guide for 2526 school year pleasure board M President we approved the policy changes that um Mr Anderson brought to the board on December 9th um I can put it on the screen if you'd like so technically so we've got the policy change is just not reflected so if if we approve this with the changes with current policy we should be okay correct whoever's making that Amendment or that I'll make that motion that we approved the guide with the addition or the edits as noted
038um adding the fourth career pathway on second second welome please Chris Brown hi Amy Gram hi Nancy Hopper hi Kitty J hi John proudy hiy Smith hi Sarah Whitney hi okay uh 7 foran High School FFA Future Farmers of America State Career Development U event April 2829 in Fort Collins board move to approve no C please Chris Brown hi Amy gron hi Nancy Hopper hi Katie Jess hi John Pry hi SMI hi Sarah 7 C for Maran High School FFA Future Farmers of America Convention June 3D through the 5th in poblo pleasure of the board V to approve second roll call Chris Brown hi Amy Gram hi Nancy Hopper hi Katie Jess hi John Pry hi Smith i s hi several newsletters from around the district the elementary buildings and so forth on to Advanced
039planning the district office will be closed in honor of pres President Day February 17th and we have spring break listed as March 10 through the 14th the next Board of Education meeting will be March 3rd and 24th and if there is no further business to come hold on one last thing I forgot to mention about the calendar put a half day on September 5th so we can have Alex said let's just not play with it and take that last day as a work day so that we don't like the week before hey we're taking the day off um so that's what be presented to you all right if there's no further business to come before the board we are adjourned at 742