001Stand to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all. No mission statement in the strategic priority number one group. >> Sure. Mission statement. We will empower a community of lifelong learners who strive for personal excellence through meaningful relationship >> and real world authentic learning experiences. And strategic priority number one is increase student opportunities that integrate real world focus and applicationbased learning to ensure all students are college, career and life ready. >> Thank you. >> Anyone have any conflict of interest to declare today? All right. And moving on, approve agenda. >> No additions. All right. And greet visitors and communication from the public. Is there anyone that signed in? Jill, >> you can take action to approve the
002agenda. >> May you take action to approve a motion. >> I'll make a motion to approve agenda. >> I'll second. >> Thank you. And all in favor say I. I. >> And same sign. Person. >> I'm really nervous here. >> Do it just fine. >> Sorry kids. I've never been in this role either. So there we go. >> Doing just fine >> today. All right. So, thank you all for coming. All right. And anyone that needs to speak tonight besides the group that's here. All right. And building updates. >> Yeah. So, uh we'll go ahead and start with the two. They're a little shorter. So, Doug, uh go ahead and give an update quick. >> Yeah, sure. I'm just read priority one on the on the handout we have up there. Uh it's always good
003to meet with Andrew Stewart when you're doing our small groups on Wednesday. We got to do that at our building. uh working in the profile of graduate work. Um did a really good job with that. Then Corey actually followed today with the team and made some videos and some learning with that. Uh as you scroll through there, just the 21st century learning skills. Once again, the third grade with doing the brochures. This is one of the products they came up with uh for the Chamber of Commerce um and going around town. Uh we had a lot of CH opportunities and learning uh skills to work together. second and third grade practiced on being great teammates uh during an official official reward activity they had. This last week our PTO we did a fundraiser with teachers
004on big teacher night got served a lot of kids some burgers and fries uh and some ice cream that the ice cream machine was actually working so it was great most of the time it's sputtered back quite a bit but it it shot out the ice cream well. Uh and staff wise we got a chili cook off tomorrow. So if you happen to be on the elementary all morning, come on over. Got six different ones coming in. Good contest. Be good stuff. >> Questions for Doug. Miss Pl. >> Um for strategic priority number one, I just gave you kind of a summary on how the teacher spent innovation day. We had visiting businesses and other school districts learning to deal around in other classrooms and that created some really good conversations for us and on
005the next day on Tuesday we had team meetings. um strategic priority number two that is uh couple of pictures there of kids in projects and things that you would see typically in one of our classrooms uh for how we're targeting Pog and getting kids to focus on those skills. That first picture is my sixth grade are eyeball in their community recipe project right now. This was the very first day of lesson. So it was inquiry based and essentially kids were handed a baggie or ziplock full of ingredients and said make it taste like a cookie. So talk about ratios, proportions. Um they weren't given a a recipe per se, but they kind of had to figure that out. Um strategic three. This month we are focused on teamwork and accomplishing something together. So you may
006have seen our building pop pantry uh food drive that we just completed. At the time that I wrote this, I wasn't for sure who was going to win, but our fourth grade won. That was super exciting for that grade level. We will celebrate them this week. But I think overall had over,00 items donated go to the top pantry and this year our husky leaders are invested in pop pantry and have some have a role in organizing and putting things together. So that's that connection for them. Um str strategic priority number four. I just gave you the summary of our memorable moments survey. It's the one that we do every month as a middle school asking kids to point back to something that they are connected to in school or that created kind of a memorable
007moment that stuck with them. And so this is that summary. Some of the top highlights are DJ Nate parties. That's our music teacher that takes them out. They have a dance party out on the playground. Uh homecoming and celebrating teachers birthdays were ranked very high. So, I broke that down for you there. Um, in summary, you know, the kids oftent times are pointing back to those learning opportun opportunities that they have in class like community recipes and the things that teachers do to make every day something special. uh upcoming things we have going on the last two days that we are in school before we leave for Thanksgiving break. The recipe presentation is on Thursday. It'll be in the afternoon. The students will have blogs and other presentation items to share if you want to
008come in and see that. And then our annual balloon parade with with fourth grade is on Friday the 21st >> question for Julie. >> Thank you. >> So Kim and Josh have longer present you know kind of updates. So who wants to go want to fill first Kim or you want to follow that up? So I'll turn over priorities and they'll tie it together for you. They're updating that together. like >> Yes. Put the slides down. Perfect. Like three of us here and three here. >> Amazing. >> You're great. This is great. All right. So, I brought in uh seven students who are enrolled in a class called humanities. This is the first year that we're offering it. Mr. Steckline and Miss Kriswell are teaching it. Mr. Mr. Tele teaches eighth grade history and Miss
009Kriswell teaches eighth grade uh literacy and this is the first time we're offering a co-taught interdisiplinary course that is focused on project-based learning. So before I get into that I want to give our students who very thankful they're investing their time tonight and their families for coming to introduce themselves because they are students who are actually taking this class. Start with you. >> Hi I'm Colton Robersonson. I'm an eighth grader and I'm in the new class called humanities. Hi, I'm Alexandria Hoskins. I'm in the new class called team boost. Hi, I'm Kenzie B and I'm eighth grade. >> Hi, I'm Katie Cunningham and I'm also >> Hello, my name is Sam Potter and enrolled in humanities. >> Uh, hello, my name is Ed Mullen and I'm in human. >> I'm Andrew Gross and I'm enrolled
010in humanities at Winter Junior High and I'm also an eighth grader. >> Awesome. Very nice job. Yeah. So really wanted to give you guys an opportunity to hear about the class and also most importantly hear how it's impacting the students and they're going to talk about their experiences and their takeaways from this. So what is humanities? I think it really uh starts with this idea of uh first of all aligning to our strategic priorities. So if you look at priority one and priority two, it's all about creating authentic learning opportunities, real world connections um and then integrating those 21st century skills. And so in talking with Mr. Stline and Miss Krisbell throughout last year for think about how do we create an opportunity for to combine these two content areas and then have a focus
011on uh project based learning. So um some staffing came together for us last year so we're able to offer this class. And so what it is is it takes place in an 88minute clock. There's about 40 students who are enrolled in this class with two teachers. Um we're integrating social studies and literacy standards together and then we use a project-based uh learning model and the the focus day in day out is to create learning opportunities where they're making connections the real world what they're learning can transfer across content areas and also outside of the classroom. So again I spoke about this is a big piece is we wanted to create a a time in the day where we could really focus on our student priorities. Um and this class does just that. So it integrates
012real world uh focus and application based learning and then it also the the PG skills come into play really seamlessly because these learning opportunities are really a vehicle to teach these skills. So there's a focus on effective collaboration communication how to be a self-starter driven how to have a growth mindset because a lot of the topics and the types of projects they're uh learn doing are maybe outside the comfort zone uh for students. So this is this opportunity, this class uh kind of puts it all together and allows them to practice these skills through project based learning. And so to give you kind of a feel of what the framework looks like, the teachers will present them with a driving question. So they're they're in the process of doing a project with that's focused on
013the question that pose to the students is how do we what what is wrong with the school currently and how do we solve that problem? So they're given that driving question and then kids engage in sustained inquiry. So, it's not the teacher just standing up there and having them fill out a worksheet or giving them notes, but the students have to actually research this question and continuously research it and then refine uh the answers to their questions through more research. So, they sent out surveys uh to to people in the building. They came and asked questions, try to get answers to what what is what is something we can fix in the school um to make it better. Uh authenticity is a big piece of it. So having a question that is that is real
014and tangible and they can see how it relates to the real world. Um student voice and choice. So students get a lot of lot of voice in how they're going to uh have their public products or how they're going to communicate their findings. Um critique and revision. So it's not just one product and it's done but getting feedback and revising their findings and revising their final product and ultimately the public product. So they're going to create something that's real that is answering that driving question. So trying to go go through that whole that iterative process of those six pieces um throughout the uh throughout the class and again building those profile of graduate skills. So they're working on collaboration all the time and learning to having tools in place to help them collaborate effectively um
015critical thinking and problem solving how to be effective communicators and how to think innovatively. So that's kind of the the class in a nutshell. I think the most important piece here is kind of the student voice, what they're experiencing, how it's impacting them. So, you're going to have an opportunity to hear from all seven students here. We're going to start with Colton. So, he's going to talk through the different kind of skills that he developed through this class. [clears throat] Um, I'm a student in humanities at Winter Junior High and the classes helped me develop collaboration and problem solving skills through group projects where we each completed separate tasks and combined our work. Um, in one project, I identified a need for more privacy in school restrooms and use problem solving by um proposing solutions
016and speaking with school board members about the issue. >> Adding on to what Colton said, we've only had humanities for around 12 weeks, but already in a short period, we've enhanced and even learned a few new skills. This could include public speaking, presentation, critical thinking, even collaboration. For me personally, presentation has been a big one. Honestly, a couple weeks ago, I would not have done this, but obviously I've learned how to do it a bit better. And one of the the way they do this is they offer more opportunities to like get more experience in the real world than even things that we'll need in high school. As you may a couple days ago, we interviewed some people that are even here today, Mr. Corey, Miss St. John, and Miss Alexander. We learned like how
017to interview and how to ask like correct questions and how to properly like research like what how does this affect our issue? Does this mean this issue is worth go delving deeper into or does this mean maybe it should just stay there? Humanities has helped us make real world connections by teaching us how to ask effective questions um communicate and work with a team. As Alex said, we are currently working on a project which is solving issues in our school and we have learned how to work with our team to improve our school and ask effective questions to adults in our school to learn how to effectively our school. on this class, I learned a lot about like amendments and the three branches of the government. Um, we've also done a lot more, but those
018are just like two main topics. Um, these lessons have helped me get ready for high school and college classes because I learned during this process that I think it's in high school you have to take I don't know how long it is, but something about like amendments and going through the government and all that and maybe if you choose to you can do in the in college too. Uh I think they teach imper important skills and ideas I could use later in life. Uh I think it's really important for humanities to be uh to be teaching this in the junior high so the students can practice and build the knowledge we need for our future studies. >> Um so humanities has been like a very good class for helping teach students about real world experiences.
019For example, just a few days ago, like Alex said earlier, we interviewed like basically all the people we interviewed are here. And um this like taught us how to talk to adults on a professional level. And a lot of different things in the junior high have also taught us that. So that's just really great. Include >> I just want to highlight that picture right there. Can you scroll down, Chloe? So what they're what Zayn's holding up there and Katie and Mackenzie are in that picture that's a scrum board and that's a project management tool. So that's an example of like a a real world uh tool they can apply in the classroom. And so a lot of these projects are like three four weeks long and there's a lot of different moving parts and people
020have different roles. And so this allows them to like uh you know keep keep organized and make sure that people are being held accountable to the expectations in a project and they're fulfilling their role. And this is used in um the the real world in the workplace on big projects. So this is just one example of us taking that from the real world and applying it here and then uh eighth grade students are learning how to manage a project uh through that. So it's it's been fun to watch them have like those stand up meetings talk about who's doing what, where are we at, let's move the sticker. So it's like needs to be done. Uh we're doing it currently and then it is done. And so they move their sticker across the board. And
021this is something we do administratively as well. So it's nice to see that trickling down uh through doing a great classroom. >> Uh humanities has contri contributed my personal growth by communicational skills. Communicational skills is something you use every day in your life like going to the grocery store like just talking and asking questions. Those will help you get to where you want to get in life. Um time management. The time management is very important because for example I had a class in Miss Kurs where we had stuff like kind of laid off to the final day and we were rushed when we got it done and humanities has taught me to have better time management and make sure I'm getting my stuff done on time. It's boosted my confidence like by telling I'm confident
022like what I'm doing and how I'm doing it. It's positively impacted me because we were learning super interesting things like Zayn said about the branches of the government and the amendments doing projects and teams. I love doing projects and teams because I get to work with people I usually don't get to work with and making the class fun. The teachers are very enjoyable to like be with. They're always helpful and they're making sure you get your stuff done but having like some humor to it. Uh, humanities has been an odd experience for me as of this year. Uh, I struggled a lot in the beginning of the class trying to figure out what was what. But thanks to the teachers, I was able to get on track and, uh, start doing better. Manny's has been
023a fun experience with all my friends that share the class with me. All of the assignments are inclusive and interesting to learn about. >> You guys stay up here. We'll finish up here. So just some some student outcomes um student engagement you know 100% of our students in this class so uh about 40 kids are engaged in project based learn project based learning day in day out um collaboration skills I'm in the library every day and students are the whole class is through collaboration so they're getting that practice there um and then 100% of profile of graduate skills so every day there's a different profile of graduate skill being embedded in instruction in this class and students are getting practice being collaborators being communicators um and being self started self starters and being driven. Um
024we have high quality products being produced and ultimately these skills they're developing in this class are going to be transferable uh to high school and then beyond if they choose to go to college or go to the workforce. Um whatever they choose to do, these skills they're learning in this class are going to help them be successful on that route. And then got one more thing here. Yep. and it just speaks to our commitment to excellence um in the class that I believe is is aligned with our priorities and our focus on having students be college career and life grades. >> Question for Josh for the kids. >> Thank you so much for coming. >> Great job. >> Yeah. Everybody take one step in >> toward Mr. There you go. Oh, very good. Good job.
025Stay right there. >> [laughter] >> Thank you so much. >> Right, Mr. Smith. >> So, you guys have my my little report thing. I'm just going to quick go through. Um, couple things to highlight. decap plan you have from the state. So this is a link at the top of my presentation. Our decap score was 20 what we 26 I believe. Um when we got here few years back we were like a nine. That was pretty good for the state. Um oh maybe it didn't get back on there. Sorry. Um if you look at it now it's 26 out of the 32 possible. And a lot of that's around student reflections, uh, next steps and connecting career plans with our kiddos. Um, so a couple things that that, uh, first off, our counselors do a
026great job of it, but want to make sure that you guys are aware of things that we've got going in that in that realm. So, um, currently we are we are on a waiting list to pilot the youth apprenticeship program, uh, otherwise called the YA grant. Uh, that's going to be part of a registered apprentichip program that allows our kids to have access to internship with a lot less paperwork by the time that they're done. They'll have an industry recognized credential uh, from the state that they can use for whatever they need to. Also working with a program called Propeus. if I'm saying that correctly. Um so that is targeting um parents of farm workers uh or excuse me students that have parents that are farm workers or kids that are doing farm labor themselves.
027So, what that does is that allows them to be a part of the program that can go towards uh paying for their two-year program either in the ACT sciences or the healthcare sciences through a community college like DMAT. In addition, those kids would could take a 10-hour class, get paid off $250 for taking that class. It's basically around the need for agricultural work. um and visiting with the gal who runs this program, all 30 of our supervised a experienced students qualify for that. They just need to sign up for it. Um so anybody that's going into healthcare at DMAC, for example, if they're a part of this program, we're going to have a significant portion of their of their funds paid for. So along with you, the apprenticeship and the protas, we've also got them
028going. Well, I I'll stop there. We got we got a lot of that stuff going for their for their next steps. Uh in addition to that, I don't have I mean I can show you guys my my if you want, but we're making a switch to digital digital scholarships appentry. Um so the app century program is a $10 cost per student that uses it. And what I mean by uses it is we have some students who are already enrolled in like the Iowa School of Beauty. They don't they're not going to enroll in any local scholarships. Uh we don't get build for those guys as the ones that we do. So, what this does now is uh what we found in my past three years of doing this with them is we leave thousands of
029dollars on the table because kids will not fill out local scholarships. They fill out one form and they turn it in one place and then they're asked to write another essay or I have to fill this out again. They don't do it and so they leave this money and then we get stuck with local scholarship uh groups that are like why can't we get anybody to apply for this? Um, so App Sententry will take down their it'll pre-populate all that information for them for every scholarship that they click. Uh, the GPA they're going to enter themselves, but it goes through a filtering system with our guidance counselor. So, they go through to make sure the correct GPA are in there, ACT scores, whatever else that is. And by selecting the different scholarships, it'll automatically pump
030that that information to that committee. That committee will have it. Um, and we can have we can have signed up for this. So with the afro app century program sorry right now we're working on getting it connected to the one app which Iowa and Iowa state use so that when they write some of these essays for local scholarships that essay can also be used for one app or back and forth they it talks to us uh for uh scholarship applications where uh the people prefer hard copies it's just a PDF download they can print it uh it'll have all their pre-populated resume. Uh the kids will basically enter that information. Um AI will take care of the resume that's already put together for them. Uh they just have to put in their year and their
031their activities. So that's huge actually for our kids. We'll open that. That's a good one. We're going to roll that out to students on December 3rd. Uh we'll invite that's our parent teacher conference night. We'll invite parents in that night also uh and run through a 30-minute presentation with them. The parent has access to all the scholarships. They cannot edit or touch any of them. So, they can see the progress of their child, but they they won't be able to correct grammar or anything like that. That same night on December 3rd is also our FA night where our counselors help help with any parent that needs assistance with filling out FASA as that season is now upon us once again. So, we have that going. Uh do want to highlight two other things. Um last
032Friday we had the South Central STEM committee uh come and visit Winteret. Absolutely fantastic visit. So as members of the state um met with our science teachers, Mr. Sussex and myself and what we shared is the work that we're doing in the areas of STEM. So we had two of our science teachers do externships from the state, Tony and Cat participate that along with Mr. Shufflebine. So they asked about those experiences. Uh we have Miss Kane who is I think she was one of the first uh STEM teacher over the years u in Iowa not like lately but long time ago. Uh they asked about our madage table and how we're using that effectively. Uh so we're able to share that with her. Tony McCutchen has been the driving force behind the physics day which
033will take place on May one. It's a statewide initiative. is working with Iowa State, University of Iowa, Simpson, and some other colleges around different apps and developing this stand for kids. So, I won't say the right app, so I will butcher it. It's like a beo or something app that you put on here and basically you turn it on and you go into uh any ride and it's gathering data the whole time you go on a ride. So, is it the Twister? Is that tornado? Thank you. tornado tornado as you go through. He was explaining there's over 500,000 data points on the tornado. So, as it's as it's as you're writing, it's collecting this. Um, and then the goal is when the kids show up, they're going to be learn they're going to learn how
034to collect data and then what to see in that data. So, they start looking at potential and kinetic energy. How does the weight of the rider change? What's the velocity when this changes and this changes? um and is to expose them to the science behind the ride instead of just enjoying the ride. And then they'll connect with other STEM uh businesses to see where these physics skills will come into play. How could you develop these and how could you do that? So, uh right now I know I Yeah, our class will be there for sure. We got to figure out how we're going to pay for that one yet. But they we're going to invite the RRC schools and all their physics students to come in as well to be sort of the first group
035on May one to try this. But then the goal is to then uh over the summer have a sheet where kids can go into the office and get all this information and they can write it on their own, figure that stuff out. So they want to visit with us about that. Uh and then the work that Chad's doing um with AI, artificial intelligence at our school, spent a large portion of our meeting around that. Um and and once again reaffirmed how far ahead of other districts we are in that in that realm. In fact, teaching some of those STEM council members what what's happening in schools. Um, so we'll be highlighted in a STEM newsletter or something that'll come out with that. Uh, another one, just so you guys are aware, part of a learning
036LLC, um, as part of the innovative district and working [clears throat] with some other high school principles across the nation around authentic or excuse me, artificial intelligence and workforce development. So, uh, working with some high school principles in Baltimore, New York, a lot of East Coast schools just about how we train kids to enter a workforce where AI is becoming increasingly in demand. Uh, so what skills do we need to have? What do they need to have? Um, do I have the answers? No. But it's assured to know that they don't have the answers either. So, we're all kind of working on this together. And then last one, we did apply statewide for the citizenship pilot program where we were going to be able to uh give all of our students the citizenship test. Anybody
037that passed would already be pre-approved to be an American citizen. I mean meet the citizenship test requirement and we did not get selected for that as that was a high demand pilot. So, our plan then is this spring to go through that information with our social studies team, develop a plan for how we'll have our seniors take that test and move forward. So, it's kind of the work we're doing at the high school. >> Oh, one other thing. Sorry. Go >> ahead. Nope. Go ahead. >> Wednesday, I think we're going to have the Meta helicopter, medical helicopter landing at McGaffen. Last two times we've had it lined up, they've actually had to transport a person. Thought it was a little crass to bring the person to McGaffen and have a real experience. hoping nobody needs
038a flight on Wednesday otherwise it would be >> questions for Cam. >> Thank you. >> Thanksful >> and consent consent agenda minutes from last month. Any updates? Do we need to approve things each time? >> Does it hold unless you pull one out? Um, >> paid bills and invoices. Any questions for Jill? Okay. And personnel report. >> Yes. So, moving there with classified staff and then all the coaches who are citizen coaches that are coming up for winter seasons. Um, just for those that are new on the board, uh, it's a one-year contract. It's non-renewing. So, you'll see these prior to their seasons throughout the year for all our assistant coaches. So, that's why they're on there. >> And are do we have any updates? Are there any any positions still available or for the
039citizen coaches or >> uh, not that I'm aware of. Uh, so we'll see when we get to boys basketball after Christmas if we need to add additional for numbers um for junior high. Um, but I don't think there's any currently for the winter open. >> Okay, >> thank you. >> You saw probably saw that the three new girls wrestling coaches. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Y which are here. >> Update on open enrollment. We just had the two applications that were listed. and the financial report. >> Yeah. Anybody have any questions on that? It looks like we're just a few percentages about over for expenses and a little under for revenues. So that's still on track build. >> Questions? Anyone? >> Contracts and agreements. >> Yeah. Yes. So, as we move along with the construction project,
040um due to the auditorium, this was brought up that they would bring on a theatrical consultant to brace them on a uh request proposal for three groups. I included the information there for you. One was substantially higher than the other two. Um Bray has worked with the two that were lower uh CTI and then Schuler chute. Um, we actually had a Zoom meeting with each one of them last week and the and would recommend that we go with the lowest bid of CTI uh and they'll come on board with Bray and be part of the design trying to make sure that all the acoustics and and all that stuff uh provides the best possible experience in that space. So, >> all right. And TP, >> this is a Corey and Joe on TP manage that.
041>> This is the last semester for this. So our is nearing the end of our TPR agreement here. So um we just have two individuals I think on on the list right now >> and the entire consortium. We started with 10 to 12 and either everybody has either quit the program or graduated from college and some have teaching positions within the districts they started the consortium with. And so this is our last addendum that needs to be approved. we'll have another quarterly report to seek the reimbursement and then as of uh the end of December the program across the state will be done. So the so the kids the kids will finish their programs most likely but they just won't be reimbursed or paid for through the state. So several people received almost an entire
042college experience paid for by the state of Iowa and got teaching jobs right away with it as well. So, it's been really good for the consortium and the schools involved. >> Make a motion to approve. >> Yep. >> I'll make a motion to approve contracts and agreements. >> Okay. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Same sign for Nay. >> So, approved. >> Sorry, I'm not saying everybody name like Jared does. [clears throat] >> You're you're in charge, Jill. >> All right. old business second reading afford policy updates. >> Yep. So these were the ISB policy updates. Again, a lot of them were a legal reference and dates on some of those and there were some other changes based on law. So we had the first reading of those in October, second reading
043in November and then they'll be put in become effective upon approval tonight and uh Jane will update the website with them once we approve them. All right. Make a motion. >> Second. You got it. >> By Ross. [laughter] All in favor say I. I. >> Oppos. Same [snorts] sign. >> All right. Moving right on. New business. Set date and authorized publication of public hearing for fiscal year 27 calendars. >> Yeah. So, the calendar committee has been meeting. Um, our intent is to hopefully have a draft for the calendar for you in December. So, we need to set a date publicized for a public hearing on the calendar before we can approve it. Um, I think we'll be on track to have one. If not, we'll just have to kick it to January, but we need
044to have it in place if we if we are. Our intent is to come in December with the draft of the 2627 calendar. >> And is that just normally during our regular meeting? >> It is. So, in December, you'll have the initial meeting where you'll uh do seating of officers, oath, select board, and then during the regular meeting, we'll have the public hearing in that. >> So, I've looked through some of the information. Does anybody have any questions? actually a part of my discussion for the sum up date we could give you some guidance before I go to the county committee if that's okay. Yep. This is just setting the public hearing once we get to that point. >> So set the date for our next meeting which is December >> motion please. >> Make
045a motion for that date. >> All in favor say I. I. same sign for nay and the loud plan English language learners I'm assuming that's you Corey >> uh maybe not >> actually so I'll do I'll set it up and then I'll let Kendra walk through it so yeah loud plan is the plan outlines biggest language learners it needs to be updated or reviewed at least every five years it was up to be done so uh Kendra kind of ran that play for us I'll let her run through uh when >> yeah a lot of the state regulations remain the same and So, we just brought a team together just to go through our plan and make sure it was still up to date with our current processes. Um, which is mostly what we changed,
046streamlined some identification and placement procedures that we've been using. Um, made it more clear the documentation steps that need to be taken in infinite campus. Um, integrated MTSS into it. Um, updated the parent communication. Um, the updated use of transact. um in ensuring that notices are provided in the language most easily understood by parents and then looked at the statements regarding the Iowa core extracurriculars tag and special education to make sure those were all up to date. Yeah, the plan is a template provided by the state, but we walk through different scenarios of like what the program is, what it isn't, what the qualifications for the teacher are, what the professional development, things like that. And then it walks through entrance, exit criteria, pro screening processes, and then also the biggest piece is probably the
047equity part of just because they're ELLL then doesn't necessarily mean they're not, you know, part of other groups like tags, fed, things like that. And so there's some equity pieces there that we just have to guarantee as a school district because there are rights and responsibilities for administering the the ELLL program, the English as a sorry acronym, English language learner program. >> Any questions? >> Do we need to >> Yes. to approve? Yeah. Motion to leave the >> approve. Second. Second. >> All in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. and board member reporting thief. >> All right. Um so to start off um during the week leading up to Halloween, the council created um a series of dress up days that um the high school students were could dress up too, kind of bring
048up morale when it's getting colder. Um and this included a costume day on Friday where people could bring an item from Pantry to be entered into a costume contest. So this kind of incentivized donations from our student body. Um today however both the winter or both the high school and junior high student councils hosted our veterans day assembly um and brunch. So for the first time we've organized a brunch where we got pastries and coffee and juice. And in this brunch we kind of focused on more so talking to the veterans rather than than them just coming in for like 10 minutes and then leaving. So, we really wanted to focus on asking the questions and playing um USA military related trivia. Um and then in the actual assembly, the keynote speaker um and a
049veteran was a council member's mom um Kelly Mohler. So, that was pretty special just to see how um just to be like closer really conveniently thing. And then officially this Saturday, um, student council, white team, and RAP will travel to and volunteer with meals from the Heartland. Um, in total around 30 people are marked to be going, so it's a pretty good turnout. Um, furthermore, the winter warmth drive, which just started, is planned to last through Thanksgiving. Um so this is basically where we leave boxes at local communities and any winter set school district buildings that we want to leave um clothes at for other people in the community. U we also posted social media posts about this about this event. And then lastly in the future during Christmas the council will adopt a um
050kids. So in this we'll just they gave us our or give us their Christmas wish list and we'll go through and shop for some items relating to those things. Um and then these funds will be provided by the members themselves and the concession staff. So that's basically that. >> All right. Thank you. >> Sorry if I interrupt too. I know she wasn't gonna say this. Kenzie was recently selected to serve as a page for the Iowa legislature. part of that function. >> She'll start with us. She'll start uh this second semester. She'll be at the >> during the legislative session. She'll be at Paige. So, >> Oh, that'd be cool. That's awesome. Any update, Ross? >> Yeah, >> I just have um a couple things. One would be um I of course I'm a grandparent
051so most of my friends are grandparents and I have recently been talking with some of my friends that have high school kids and they keep talking about the internship program and they're just so excited for their grandkids to go out and see places you know where they are interning. um one of their granddaughters sat in on a um did a walkth through at for a re litter and then is um sat down at the closing will sit down at the closing next week I think and she's just super excited. So um that her grandkids have that experience. So thank you all for that. Um and just seeing all of our our high school activities um is great. And um my granddaughter is the one that fell asleep on the bus home from the Iowa Wild
052game. So I'm not quite sure what happened, but she was out and kicked her seatmate out so she could have the whole seat to sleep. [laughter] So great things going on. Justin. >> Yeah. So I have a few things. Um just ISB convention next week. Uh I don't know if you guys want to ride together or not. I can sure get a Suburban we can write down. you're traveling, want to do stuff after, that's fine. Um, so just let me know. I'll get a Suburban and plan on it and send out a leave time on Wednesday and Thursday for those meetings. So, um, just know that that's an option. And then you're all registered and signed up for the events on Wednesday or I think did we send our schedule then Jill? >> Yeah, I'm
053here. So, >> yeah. So, if you need to know your schedule again on Wednesday, we can get that to you. So, uh, that's on next Wednesday and Thursday. Uh, counterfeedback. Uh I gave you kind of all that feedback on Friday. We had a chance to look through it. Um question since then uh that uh you know Jared reached out and just asked um you know if we take an additional 30 minutes uh on Friday instead of an hour late start go to 90 minute what does that do to our hours? So we Cy and I worked on those calendars and you'll see usually if you know we at 178 student contact days um with the hour late start we run about 1128 hours. Uh, we need 1080, which is why we haven't had to make
054up snow days the last since I've been here. Um, if we would go to the 90 minute, that goes to 1,116.5 hours. This is on our draft. That's all things staying kind of relatively the same. Um, and then I also gave you down below the last 5 years of how many hours we've missed because of snow. So, you'll see we've gone a size 35.5 and 23 24. um that would run us down right to just above the 10,080. Um so that's just for you to understand, you know, if we would get to that point. Um there's potential that brings that into where that there could be we would have to make up uh make up days. So just that was a question. So I'll share that with you. Um we will meet this Wednesday, go
055through the feedback. um if there are things that you as a board want me to have that committee discuss or um based on the feedback you know you would direct me in some way I mean ultimately it's your calendar the calendar committee gets writing feedback um the two things that we were asked to kind of the calendar committee would like to learn was you we've taken that week of Thanksgiving off for since I've been here I think it started maybe the year before I got here Corey thought because of some training um and we just continued to do it um staff asked well what if we went to school on those two days. Um, so we ran a calendar uh scenario that would allow that. One thing it does do um that will be interesting
056what the committee thinks about is at the high school it's important to try and keep quarters the same. You know, 44 or 45 days versus getting one really lopsided because of your classes only meet for a term. Well, if you go to school those two days, um, your second core gets like 49 days, I think, if I remember correctly, where the you have one that's 42. That throws it off a bit. Um, so just that's something they'll have to work through. Um, there was feedback on moving that to Christmas, adding two days to Christmas and going to school on those Monday, Tuesday. Um, so those are some things and you saw the feedback. It was kind of 50% wanted it. The other 50, there was about 30 said, um, keep it. And there was so
057many that were undecided. >> so you're thinking if you got out early Friday, you would have normal start time on Wednesday. >> Yes. >> Yeah. We just be shifting uh no late start on Wednesday, moving that time to uh Friday afternoon and getting out at 1:30 about a 90 minute. Couple reasons for it. Um, it does allow teachers to meet longer. you know, we come at 7:30. Um, but at the elementary, they start dropping off at 7:35. So, those teachers get about an hour, you know, 50 minutes, and then they're going to be in their classroom when kids show up, uh, be out on the bus drop offs when those things happen. Um, and if we're going to bring two buildings together, like when Andrea Stewart comes, we try to do the middle school and
058elementary together, we have to cut it short or give them enough time to get back to their building and get parked before kids show up. Um, and you know, other districts around us and moved to that model is really what the I would say drove them wanting us to to look at that. Is that accurate? >> Look at an alternative model. >> You guys are on that as well. I think those were kind of the the feedback from the committee to look at that. Um, so that's where that came from. So again, I want I don't want to bring a counter that you can't support based on the feedback. So I guess if there's any direction or things you want me to take back to that committee as we kind of try and put together
059a final draft, I I take those notes and do it now. >> I see it both ways. I think it's by two o'clock or on Friday are spent if they're done. But I also like if a kid can get extra sleep on Wednesday, I think that's also helpful for student learning. But I guess anters seem to be 50. >> Yeah. And I tried to break it out by the different groups, too, so you could kind of see where they were they were coming from. So yeah, >> there's pros and cons. Um, you know, one thing that was shared with me, and I don't it was prior to me, and whether it's true or not, is I believe the district used to have a uh early dismissal on Wednesdays ways back. And I was told that
060got switched because the students were in every district I've been at when you have an early dismissal and you're trying to keep middle junior high kids around for practice if there's no supervision. >> It's a lot of kids that can kind of find other things to keep them busy. >> Well, that's what I heard. Yeah. They would they would get up on the square and make it difficult on people. Um, so >> now we guilty. >> Why are they taking >> We have back in the day. You could charge charge two contrast and something. >> Oh, >> but he loved it for the >> back. It didn't last very long. >> My daughter Bill did it. What do you mean? >> We talked a little bit about the Friday and what would they do? And
061so we do have a middle school or junior coach on our committee. Um, and she indicated I didn't practice many Fridays this year. Just made my Monday through Thursday practices longer and we practiced the same amount of time. You know, Drew, you know, played football this year. After about their second or third game, because they played on Thursday, they they wouldn't practice Friday. You know, they kind of get Friday off and then start over. uh we talked about maybe the need for them to go in the morning then which again creates travel for for parents to get their kids early practice. So we've talked about a lot of those things that have come up. Um you know Corey's in a district that that does it. Um he seems to think that it goes well. So
062we shared that. Um I haven't shared my concern. Well there's only one Corey and right now his days are in B meter Friday. So if we need him to leave PD in winter set, how's that going to work? And he assured me he would figure it out. >> So, >> and so any early birds would go Monday through Friday or would they take a day off of early bird or because I think now they don't do early birds like >> on Wednesday. >> Yeah. >> Four or Yeah. If there's a class >> like for high school course work. >> Yeah. Course whatever. >> Yeah. That would have to shift. The other one we got was like, you know, preschool then preschool's day would just be a Friday instead of Wednesday. Not having preschool, it would
063move to a Friday. Um because right now they don't meet because of one session would be shorter. Um and they don't didn't see value in that. So that they would just shift into a Friday where they wouldn't have preschool. So based on the feedback, are you okay to me to go back to committee and kind of bring forth what they would like? I mean, that's kind of what I'm looking for. Are there other information you would need from me? I guess I just want to see the hours and everything to make sure we're going to be clo, you know, whatever it was that we're not >> I can send you the two drafts like in my update this week. Like Cory and I worked on, you know, a draft we the Thanksgiving shifts quarters but
064doesn't shift days really. Does that make sense? It doesn't affect your hours really because we kept that Wednesday. Um I can share those two drafts. You can see the hours and how they total up. Um that's without some other changes staff might make. One thing they also brought up um is something we've done in the past is a day at the end of uh like first quarter and semester um third quarter because it falls so close to spring break and actually next year it's crazy. Um the Easter Monday falls on what is the end of third quarter? It's way early. It's like March. It's so it just works out. Um, and those two days would be Columbus Day and NLK day if we took those off. Just happened to to where the end of the
065first quarter falls on Columbus Day and the end of uh semester that Monday after would be MLK day. Um, so they talked about putting some of those days in. Um, you know, if we don't if we go to school those two days in Thanksgiving, those are staff contract days. Um, one's a TQ funded day, one's a PD day that we'd have to shift and find either before school or one of these two days that we we have been innovation days which is would still be that fall day. One of those day would be that day in January then. Um, and both of those calendars because of when um, Memorial Day is um, gets us out ahead of that day is late. It's really late next year, too. So, I'll show you the draft so you
066can see how it falls out. Um, like I said, we'll meet Wednesday with the calendar committee and try and get a more finalized this is what they're they're thinking and like to propose and I'll get that to you as well. But okay, kind of bring if they decide to go Friday, you could support if they decide to go to school on those two days of Thanksgiving. >> Yeah, finally asleep for the kids, but I mean, >> well, and you bring up a good point, Jeremy. you know, the high school kids if they're if they have a late Tuesday night ball game, which happens with volleyball and basketball and Wednesday is a Yeah, it's a good day to rest up. >> But I and my kids are thinking, "Oh, good. They'll all go to school at
067the same time. They don't have to stay. They can start their workday normal." >> Right. >> Sure. >> I I see it both ways. We had a parent come on the if you're on the board yet or not Gina um few years back ask the board to move uh teaches in de mo were >> yes >> if you're on the board um and how hard it was you know he needs to get school and has two young kids and >> lining that up was hard right >> and there's those stories every I mean you saw it in the data right you know finding time to cover um so >> and I suppose you could probably say the same thing for getting young is early on Friday to get off work early to get your kid
068or to get them to daycare or whatever. >> Yeah. And you know anything >> and Doug mentioned you know it used to be the mil the elementary really likes their morning time. Kids learn better in the morning you know and you're starting late that shifts some of that learning time. So >> there's pros and it's yeah I'll get those two drafts to you this week. Um >> cares reached out. >> I have not yet. I can reach out to them. I wonder if how they were gonna I mean >> kids no matter what. >> Yeah. Um you're shifting when they're going essentially, right? >> Yeah. I can reach out to the jungle and stepping stones and see. >> Okay. >> Yeah. Okay. Uh the next thing um the construction like or sorry the Nexus system.
069I sent this to you guys in an update. Uh it's the system that projects onto the port. Um, I think it would set our district apart. [snorts] Um, I'd really love to have it in place for like Christmas break if I could. Um, thought, you know, so it's, you know, the base price they send me was 60,000. We'd have to get um, wiring in the gym to it. So, I'd like to like finalize a bid and see what they come back and what the total cost would be um, and then potentially move forward with it. Nick did talk to the boosters. um didn't talk about whether or not they would support or anything like that, but brought it up to me and said there was some interest. I don't know if that would mean that
070they would be willing to support it or not. Um I know we're priority committed a lot of their funds for this year. Um so I sent that to you couple week or last week. Is that last week? >> Yeah. So if you want to look through the video on that again, provide me your thoughts. I'll probably work on getting a little firmer number >> cost with that. Huh? >> Is there an annual cost with that? So, it's the upfront guarantee with three years and then if you pay them to do your um uh programs. So, if you pay them to develop the program, there's a cost and it goes from basic all the way up to like 3,000 for it. Um Steve and Reed both are familiar with the program they use to create it
071and say they can create them as well. So, um I'll get a little firmer numbers for you to send it back to you. Um, I believe that come out of Pebble and Save. It wouldn't be a general fund, you know, because it's a school improvement technology fee. Um, but I'll make sure that's okay. >> Is there any other fundraising that could be done besides Husky Booster? >> Yeah, so it can um it would also, in my mind, enhance the fundraising um efforts for Nick when you see what it's able to do. Uh so he's looking into what other districts um are charging for, you know, when they sell an ad uh to put on the court like that, what that would, you know, what they're charging. So it may bring some fundraising to get it
072to pay for it. >> Oh. Um yeah. Um the booster is the one I looked at. I could look and see if there's others who would want to, but it's you break that over, you know, three years is a $20,000 investment over three and could last longer once you have the system. They talk about the life of the bulbs, right? You at some point we need to replace those and um but they, you know, that's a light. It's guaranteed for at least three years out of it. So, um yeah, pretty cool. I think it'd be pretty neat for our kids. Create a pretty neat environment for everybody. So, okay. Um construction update. Uh we had our core planning meeting today. Um they're moving along with their schematic design. They rub they ran us through um
073like finishes, flooring finishes and wall finishes, just what they are, not colors, nothing like that, just what they're thinking in every space. Uh so we went through that with them today. Um we saw some very uh preliminary uh exterior drawings of the spaces, provided some feedback to them on their first blush at it. Um they'll work on refining those now. Um, and they'll bring back a better rendering of it for you probably in December of what those what that looks like so far. Um, they also sent me I gave you kind of the uh budget breakdown uh what's included in the project and then the pages behind that are procurement. So it's including the budget but who's doing it as Bray, Estus or us? they asked me to go, you know, to go through with
074our team and and make sure those are things that we want to go about procuring through the contract or to shift that to to Bray or Estus. Um, so I'll work with Matt and our team, Rey, to kind of go through those and we'll finalize that and they're going to send us a draw down schedule on, you know, when a large portion of the funds are going to be needed. and talking to Travis at our our budget update. He's suggesting to hold off selling the bonds, you know, as long as you can and maybe even do it in a couple of phases depending on when we'll need the funds. Um you guys are seeing that interest rates are going down you can hold off. The thought is that they'll maybe be lower when you go
075to sell your bonds as well. Um but that'll require us to cash flow um the project for a while. We do have funds on hand to do that. Um, we do have other needs though that we're we need to make sure that we're uh taken care of as well. So, when we get the draw down numbers from Travis or from Reed, Jill and I and Travis will sit down and go through look at our needs and see when we think we need to go forward with with selling the bonds. Um, and if we do it in, you know, Travis even mentioned you maybe selling them at different, you know, portion of them at this date and a portion later date. Um, so that's kind of what's going on with that project. uh it continues to
076move forward. Um you saw the theatrical um consultant, they'll get on board and start really helping with that space. Um yeah, so again, you'll get a much better picture and update on where they're at. Um uh in December, they'll be back to to kind of run you through what's where they're at with that. Uh you know, Joshua a little bit. Veterans Day program today was uh and McKenzie did as well went really well. Our kids did a great job uh in leading it. Veterans are very appreciative. Uh thank everybody. So, shout out to, you know, the student councils, the junior high and high school and all the kids that that put it off. They did a really nice job. Um and I'm not saying that because my kids were two of the kids doing it
077either. So, uh I have got a crazy couple weeks coming up. So, um gone next week with you guys. Uh Wednesday, Thursday. I'll take I'm going to take Friday's vacation. I'll be here the week of of uh Thanksgiving and then the leave innovative schools is in DC that Monday and Tuesday. So I'll be gone those two days back Wednesday, Thursday and take that Friday. So just kind of how it all stacked up for me the next few weeks. I'm busy. Um and as you know the conference is going through, you know, some expansion. We'll have two of those meetings the next couple weeks too with different districts that I'll need to to be at. So just just busy. Call me if I just give me a call if anything. I will answer my phone and
078and skip to Dave to just give you a busy stretch here for a little bit. Any questions for me? >> Thanks. >> All right. Ajour. I got that one.