001okay we'll begin this meeting by starting with a pledge of allegiance of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god and indivisible with liberty and justice for all all right thank you thank you for uh hanging around after this public hearing for our regularly regular board meeting we have a couple of items to be taken care of we were led in the pledge of allegiance by lauren webb first item on the agenda is the consent agenda and board after reviewing that are there any items that you would like to have taken out chuck and vote it on separately yes i'd like to discuss items 2.5 and 2.6 all right uh is there anything anything else if not we have a motion to accept a consent agenda with items 2.1 what
002uh which is personnel 2.2 2.3 2.4 and the exception of 2.5 and 2.6 to be voted on in independently those are the only items i have a motion have a motion from chuck seger from diana all in favor thank you item 2.5 a recommendation to review and approve contract related services provider navajo county consortium chuck what was your question with that well in reading that contract i personally was con found it very confusing because they refer to superintendent in the contract and yet we have the county superintendent and our own district superintendent and they aren't defining which one they do make reference at the first paragraph they have the superintendent in quotes referring to the county superintendent but then on down in the contract they're also referring to our superintendent signing and so forth uh
003i found it very confusing i had to keep stopping whenever they refer to superintendent and figure out which superintendent we're talking about it seems like it would make a lot more sense if they would simply add one word before the county before the county superintendent put the word county superintendent and when it's referring to the district superintendent they put district superintendent or those two by name i but to me i found it very confusing it is and it frankly needs to get cleaned up it has the details necessary in my view to move forward but it can be more clear we can provide an initial um and i could put county superintendent and district superintendent right spot and just initially and with boards approval that would enable us to move forward with the consortium that's
004fine i don't have a problem with the contract did you i just found it more difficult to understand the contract in reading it because of the way it was yeah in some in some respects poorly written well and it's clear i don't know when it was written i didn't look on there to see a long time ago yeah but i'll bet it's probably been in the same contract for 15 or 20 years i don't know but anyway just a thought thank you reminds me of a joke i'm not going to share so can we have then uh a motion to accept item 2.5 with the clarification of which superintendent is being referred to in which paragraph all right motion chuck segment from diana all in favor i'd be unanimous also item 2.6 recommendation to review
005and approve the uh alex alec yeah the alexander math program will you explain that to us would you like mr webb just give you a brief overview of that mr williams i've never heard it before so somebody wake up lauren would love to do that oh there he is so we used alex last year with it's part of the asu curriculum it's it's not produced by asu so it's an outside curriculum that they supported and provided to us so we got a quote from them to continue that this year their quote was 56 000 to have that six through 12. and in trying to get this service before we went with asu we knew it was a cheaper quote went through something else so that we were able to get it through mcgraw hill i
006believe for the nine thousand so twenty seven thousand dollars cheaper and they six through twelve it's it's used with the six seven eight regular math classes and then high school use it for algebra geometry and algebra it's just supplemental helping them you know remember the fats and give that drill and kill component different things that they do in the as added resources to the instruction well is this a a whole new way of teaching algebra and geometry a whole new approach or uh yeah are these just worksheets or they're not worksheets it's what it does is it's an intuitive program and kind of sees where the kids are they do a test ahead of time and then builds on their skills what they need and then lets them progress and move forward as they once
007they master that content then they move on to the next material so it goes along with the teacher instruction but also is individualized based on where the kids are so it's a competency-based curriculum yeah they're going to be building on their previous knowledge and then give them the new content so you're testing them doing a pre-test basically and establishing where they are and then building from that point on right nice okay any other questions comments or concerns not we have a motion to vote on item 2.6 i have a motion from diana segment from chuck all in favor that's good all right next item on the agenda would be item 3.1 recommendation review and approve the instructional time model which we have had two public hearings on so far dr wright anything you need to
008add to for anybody that might just have stepped in on this meeting no sir just to reemphasize if someone just has logged on we don't we're not making any changes k through 12 on the start or end times of the school the instructional hours have been outlined by the state we exceed all of those extra instructional hours we're just seeking flexibility in the event we're forced online or we need to have greater flexibility to meet the needs of our students for project-based learning or learning off-site gives us far more flexibility still monday through friday no changes in the in the school day itself so the number of minutes for each grade level stayed the same yes they will reflect about what we did last year they each site will will exceed what the state requires
009okay well um so that shouldn't change our bus schedule much then no it doesn't change anything with the the practical the function of the school date is not altered at all just provides us additional flexibility does the fact that we're exceeding those levels does that give us some flexibility some uh padded hours if it adds it for inclement weather and times that we if we have to be closed again for covet for that kind of thing we're banking hours or minutes yeah absent of the of a cove closure that would i would imagine the ade would step in and a statewide thing where there's grace given but this provides us frankly more room for our kids that are in cte or navit and it provides flexibility when we want to do something different we but
010to answer your question directly about the school schedule we build in the inclement weather time yeah and knowing that it could happen but with this approval we could say this is a snow day but you're doing your work online and be given credit for those minutes if we had to yeah okay good makes sense thank you other questions or comments not can we have a motion to vote on item 3.1 recommendation to review and approve the instructional time model for the school year 2021-22 i have a motion second from dyna all in favor that's also unanimous okay the last and final item on the agenda is announcements dr wright do you want to go over any announcements are the only announcement we have in the agenda is that our next board meeting will be august
01110th 5 p.m that's our regular scheduled meeting i'm sorry i do have nothing further to add all right nothing further than we need a motion to adjourn emotion from chuck second from diana all in favor we are adjourned thank