001[Music] just really sweat many many competitions I'm going to step to the side and our coach share a little bit and give them a certificate but and perhaps you may want them all to introduce who they are and where they're from that I'll turn it over to you Thank You dr. Anderson it has been a joy to work with 28 January supposed to be twenty four and they participated in marching with jazz greats from competition the actual halftime of the bowl game several play several performances they did a lot while we were down there what you see up here are some of our leadership or ensemble to my right is my assistant Kevin Harry he's big and I have been together for 25 years so it's kind of nice for that and I was lucky
002enough that his wife also supports us by getting our colorguard director for the last 25 years as well so we all fre been together for 25 years and it's kind of a genetic Association so you know very fortunate that we have our tennis and our leadership up here we have our head drum major is brutal Hoover [Applause] [Music] we had a lot of trophies as you can see we did take second place first place second place in our tradition and second place overall of the marching festival our jazz man took first place in our tradition and in the great competition we took first place in our tradition and also won the Grand Champion trophy of all the 14 bands after down there and that is called the sweepstakes it's not the sweepstakes but it's the
003crowd pleaser award it was chosen by the SEC and the Big Ten officials that were at the pool game parade that are the ones that arranged the entire bowl game itself it was voted on by them not anybody who filled with a company that we dealt with or anybody associated it was basically based on fan reaction to us as we marched through and that was the first place and that one means a lot because that wasn't just a judge that was the general population that gave us that award so that one means a lot to us as well the biggest response we got was the quality of class that our kids did when we were down there we were commenting on several times that our students were above and beyond mother was well behaved and
004respecting groups that we had had and you'll be very proud of how well they respect it not just to be public schools to be West High School but also the same thing for the state of Kansas the attacks in Tampa Bay so thank you very much and if you were a band member if you please stand and be recognized for wave [Music] oh yeah everybody [Music] [Laughter] [Music] my name is aqua vana forensic freshman yes me a name it is something Caleb miss ackers Ashley Ortiz freshman Nolan gaps off morning Charlotte pan Toyota's sophomore yeah Renard old sophomore Kristin kumi-sama Bryn amazed freshman well I care about senior drama Cheyenne freshman [Music] George Rodrigue is freshman Steven rammer jr. Caden driver freshman Ethan Greece hacker freshman blue Kramer you recognize the bus marching band performance
005in creativity when they see one with the four meetings but under highlights we also ask for people to come up and the proclamation to start with our nation for national CTE month dr. Monroe the wonderful administrator at t2 larger along so whereas the Association of career technical education has dedicated February first twenty eight twenty nineteen as career technical career and technical education month and whereas career effectively increases graduation rates and improves academic performance through meaningful experiences thus improving the quality of their education engaging students preparing them for careers and post-secondary education giving all students leadership opportunities in their fields and in their communication so be it further resolved that a copy of this Proclamation be provided to share and included in the minutes of the Board of Education meeting for February 21st 2019 so thank
006you very much my next proclamation is from our social workers national schools social worker week is in March the first week of March and the awesome miss Leslie Carr come on up she'll introduce what staff members with her and any comments any likes me Thank You dr. Anderson thank you word for lumpiness tonight first I'd like our social workers to stand and be recognized I brought some of our team here today so thank you for they're very good at following directions so you know we have 47 social workers in our district thanks to your support in the support of time during I understand in our district leadership and I can't say thank you enough for understanding that whole child is most important that it comes down to supporting social emotional needs along with academics I
007want to share with you a couple of things first of all most people would ask if a glass is half empty or half full and social workers think about things really differently we think about teaching families that that glass is refillable and asking how we can turn on the tap so for the people are in this really they're thinking every day what are those barriers to learning and how can we remove those barriers so they can achieve academically socially and in our society as grown-ups one of the most important quotes that I shared more with my co-workers today because you are so important to me being a social worker means you will never be bored and often frustrated you will carry immense responsibility with very little authority you will step into lives and make a
008difference you will see people at their worst and their best you will cease to be amazed at people's capacity for love courage endurance you'll experience resounding triumphs and does devastating failures you will cry a lot and laugh a lot you will know what it is to be human and to be humane thank you for this recognition and I'll share a little from the proclamation whereas Topeka public school social workers are dedicated to helping students and regularly regular ed and special ed pre-k through high school fully to develop their individual potential socially physically actually be it resolved that the Board of Education for the Topeka at school has expressed his support for the designation of the week of March 3rd through 9th 2019 as school Social Work Week to honor and recognize the contributions of our
009school social workers in the success of preparations in their social workers we also have a final proclamation for Black History Month and the video we will not be showing all love but will show the first 10 to 15 seconds it is on our TV station and on our social media has been picked up as well by various media outlets and it was done by Miss nice our newest communication specialist in - love it or hate it it's a question one I never asked yeah my down because of it armed with playful words comparisons and blatant disrespect my life it seems to start the ship when the reality of my dark can hit multiple spective shot me down a bit my hopes and dreams knows where Christine fit into reality others forced upon me and then
010the civil rights clips are behind that so we encourage you to look at that that's one of our living between winners and she is a student actively with the proclamation for Black History Month begins with whereas February 2019 our Center in Black History Month and our servants to be celebrated throughout the nation to become public schools USD 501 joins its fellow citizens throughout the nation to hold appropriate observances and witness whereof we the Board of Education to be the Unified School District number 501 do we have an official signature of our president and the official seal of the Board of Education this 21st February 20 19 in honor of Black History Month and we for Black History Month every day we are highlighting the last couple of weeks someone that is global a person that's
011making history for tomorrow and some of our past individuals that are also local and one of the pieces that we researched was mr. Janel Johnson is at the end of her term will be the longest female african-american serving [Applause] mr. president I move the board approve the items of business by consensus presented and authorize the fourth president or superintendent assign a special project and first in context or in behalf of the board second favor the motion in a second any discussion miss Curtin I'm sorry I'm when you asked if there any questions I know good question but just when I have a statement to make sure that folks recognize that we have a thirty four thousand dollar donation from the ticket committee foundation on behalf of advisors Excel they have continued to support us and
012I think it's important that we take a big one that's a big donation to our schools in so we're so appreciative of that we have others smaller donations that certainly are important to us but when you get something that big and it catches your eye so I want to say thank you very much so next on the agenda is superintendent report our first item is the budget counter we asked mr. Mickey to please come forward I'll make this brief on pitching for shy - cap paper copies in front of ya the 2024 closed budgets at that point again to begin work on that I know Sean that and Angela have already sent out the worksheets to our Center managers and so some of that work is actively underway and I can tell you that the
013calendar stays pretty close to true until you get into about April May June that's when it's really out of our hands and we guy gets rest away so we're crossing our fingers China's got a pretty aggressive schedule if you notice there towards the end she's wanting to have a public hearing August 8 and a board approved by the 15th and she didn't hear that we all heard that the last several years as you know so and we do appreciate all the help we get from our center managers a lot of managers they work hard for getting us something they really do see if they have any questions as soon kissed he knows the issues with giving you their software simply when they do another pretty tight body makes the funding recommendations and then you know
014prove it so hopefully mr. Mickey we thank you for what you do it's not an easy job our next item is our report on well-being and we pull up that PowerPoint on well leave mrs. Carr will be coming to the podium to start us off we tune evil diseases that will be presenting both our four new leaders in these and their various roles miss buzzy karma you've already heard from is simply exceptional she has been with us as a social worker now a leader in the social work department and pre-visit was with family service and guidance she also is on the committee but also serves a key role on the suicide prevention with the suicide prevention work for Shawnee County additionally we have with us this evening miss Fowler who will just be right after
015his car she's just going to come right on up and begin her presentation it's about a realist and I just the sweetest person I ever want to be also quite exceptional at her role we recognize that you haven't what they heard from the nursing leadership and perhaps some time and so with health well-being on here one of the strategic plan items that you've listed really is very specific to her area so they're both going to talk about the strategic plan on the very next slide and the area of student well-being we just want to remind you that that objective for student well-being is that annually we'll implement comprehensive services for homeless students and families to attain educational sustainability and with that have some indicators for homelessness and this is the focus of where this car
016will be going in her presentation you run in an intake or we wanted an intake process that happens within 24 hours a service plan for homeless families we wanted sustainability for families and our strategy was supposed to be to wraparound services around identified homeless families and then we also had mine personally additional grants because we knew that funding was also an issue with that picture paintin I'm going to turn it over to his car to share what she's been up to as it relates to those area Thank You dr. Anderson so I serve out of the mckinney-vento liaison for our district that is a federal law that protects children who are in transition or who are without housing so I wanted to share a little data with you and then some information on the collective
017impact model that we are rolling out next school year down in the right corner of this slide which may be a little difficult to see is our trend line for homelessness we are trending up nearly 200 students from the 2013-14 school year so it's an ongoing mr. Gowan this continues to be a concern in our community and something that people beyond to be the public school need to be worried about so DCF found a model hopefully on had this booklet in front of you our will soon know that you have that this weaknesses last week we left it at your table so one of the booklets you may have wondered what that was that's what that was so enjoy the light reading it's actually very interesting but this is research from KC and Kansas City
018model called impact KCK that reduced homelessness in Kansas City Kansas by 50% youth homelessness and DCF said took a lot of interest in that and said you know we really want to replicate that across the state hate Topeka would you be a pilot and approached to take a public schools along with the city of Topeka to launch a similar collective impact model here in our community it's a huge honor to be a part of this pilot and I think it's going to dramatically impact our numbers for the next coming couple of years so we are now part of this collective impact model we're calling it impact avenues here in camp in Topeka and I share with you just the steps here that you make in an action plan you figure out what's going on find
019the resources and then collect all your resources in one location so families can one-stop shop for immediate housing medical card food clothing any of those kind of things so then homelessness is eradicated a lot faster and those families are immediately housed they use the two-generation case management model which means not just working with adults but teaching children how not to replicate you know live in poverty as adults which is really important and something no we have to do so services for that program are provided through graduation we'll start it in August and I'm happy to take questions about that program or we can weigh in tuition the other program that I would like to share an update on the legislature authorized the mental health intervention pilot program for this school year we actually have eight
020liaisons and some of them are here tonight as part of our social work group who are liasing with family service and guidance center in partnership insurance is not required we're in 21 schools thus far we've served 172 children so far we've had three hundred referrals so lots of kids who have never been able to access the mental health because of this grant program or this funding from the legislature are now able to get therapy in their school in that moment when they need it and then the data from our first quarter is we've shown a 95 percent improvement and behaviors for the students in this program 64% improved in academic performance and engagements engagement and a little over half show improvement in attendance so it's remarkable the data were seeing so far we're one of
021nine districts across the state who earned this pilot spot and we really hope that it will be funded the governor is according funding the program for a second year we wait to see what the legislature deuce does when I stop there to answer questions regarding the area of homelessness as well as the grant that's been secured to address sustainability and mental health support dr. Kirby and could you tell me a little bit more about the kinds of issues that students were coming in with they're being served in the HIV program sure so we really wanted to target children with externalizing behaviors not because we find that's more important than internalizing and when I use those words I mean Tantrums that aren't happening on the outside of a child's body versus internal depression but it's the
022most disruptive to the learning environment for the teacher and the other students so those are the kids that we really targeted in the beginning is finding kids who are tantruming very aggressive school refusal or refusing to go to class grades are really terrible defiant inappropriate language we looked for that tough stuff that teachers are really frustrated with and by doing so we've really injected a behavior plan that the liaisons these staff write along with therapy and case management that Family Services provides we do all of that sort of in partnership it's a dance that they do together and teachers are seeing that just intervening in that way and being intentional and having a voice there with them is making a huge huge impact it's been the response on the part of parents and families to
023having them access to those services overwhelmingly positive these families are the families that having comfort mental health would never have shown my services in Georgetown they don't have transportation perhaps they're documented perhaps they don't have insurance perhaps they're just leery of Social Services and don't want to go you know be at risk the at risk so engaging them is very difficult so really shout out to our staff who have to put in that time of building a relationship with step by step little by little things building a relationship to trust the school and then hey you trust me trust this air bust but once families get in the door and see that it helps it it's transformative and I think families are initiated for them what would you say I know there's been a bit
024of a challenge getting the qualified personnel in the door right yeah there's a shortage currently and social workers some assuming that the the need out there is even greater 300 referrals does that mean kind of a waiting list for sure there's a waiting list of their schools who are ready to be next on the list to be served so family service has actively recruited and found clinicians qualified mental health professionals are in great demand across the state and so I think all of the pilots are seeing on to some degree it's particularly difficult Herenton either because of a number of people with mental illness in the number of private providers it's kind of a unique community so they have recruited you know they've struggled with staffing at times but I know that we have supported
025creative ways to work around that so they brought in their leadership team and other clinicians to do short term in event intervention to support them so yes definitely need more QHP s or clinicians here in Topeka but still have made a ton of good for families Thank You mr. woods Thank You mr. president Cara thank you very much for what are they morning you know a couple of quick questions one thing that caught my eye the chart earlier mckinney-vento numbers and we have a trend two or three hundred students over since 2013 and of course that's when we were in the absolute depths of the recession things were pretty tough for a lot of folks and I can remember when the four of us who came on at the same time our reintroduced numbers we
026used to it was like we were still in the war in the air our majority agree lunch history but you know the seventy seven percent basically the folks whom they have reduced lunch and just on yeah they jumped over I'm kind of curious if you would remind us again for all of the students who fall underneath that category there are like five or six subcategories where we can even homeless students over actually you know in a shelter somewhere you've got the couch servers servers as they call them we've got the transient students who I'm wondering you may not have this information in front of you off the top of her head that was hidden in Greece any one of those categories what does it look like for those students as I recall he said just
027analyze that data earlier this week so I can't remember you know this is just a round dance but my recollection is that everything has stayed pretty the ratios of how they're dispersed I think all the percentages have crept up a little bit I don't remember it being remarkably like a little bother to ten markets and shelters I have noticed though like you talked about doubled up or couchsurfing I think that families and staff are much more aware that that is a problem but those children are just as homeless as someone living in a shelter whereas previously I don't know that that was taking it seriously so I do think reporting is better it's more of an identification that's one hypothesis I don't I mean I have no data to substantiate that but I I guess
028that some of its reporting and awareness we're now required to provide professional development to staff so they have a greater awareness that this is an issue and then I think the rescue mission has seen an uptick in the number of families there so there's there must be something the way community an impact has has warned us but with this project we will find that homeless families move to our community at times potentially to access our services Wyandotte County saw a small increase because when you have the services families will come because they know that they can get supported so that is one thing that has been you know it is a reality so for everything that were required still to do for students that we know we need each one of these young people but
029I know for students who are transient or are doubling up ur kef surfing we still provide the transportation to get them to their original do we have all the systems in place to make sure those kinds of services that facilitate as normal as possible yes I feel confident that we have mental health teams that spot those kids right away and communicate with me and our team right away and get that transportation or age so at least there's school stability there's always that need for more resources we have the community covered that week you've stopped with all the things families might need we have a great relationship with the mission and the tutoring center that we run in there but our mckinney-vento funds have been decreased by 50% I was gonna ask you I heard they
030were gonna be cut even began the president's budgets percent well I don't know you have not seen the percentage cuts for the next year dr. Grimes to the maximum but I know in 2014 our budget was $60,000 for transportation and associated services announced 30,000 so from 2014 of presidents but it increased by half and that's just for this square now that being said Tamika is a leader I mean not a tuner in the minds but we do so much for mental health for social services that districts clear to Texas and Nebraska have called me and said how did you get your board to fund these many mental health positions I mean sincerely so I think you know I would love to have more money to do more things I'm also really thankful that in our
031community we at least have solid teams in every building who can help those kids you know I hate to ask for too much I mean I'll always ask but I hate us for too much because we are very supportive mr. kurtik and the lower the discussion goes on the more question lord comes I have written down here to ask about you know it's just following up with what Patrick was saying yes having to do with the numbers of three reduced lunch of kids we have I guess what strikes me and that I looked at that book so now I actually go through and it struck me that the one thing that they didn't ever talk about was the number of a free and reduced lunch of kids and it was worse than Kansas City Kansas
032in here I mean I know it's not American is here because every single one of those kids particular kids are on free or reduced lunch are at risk for becoming homeless and so I mean getting us to think about that as a community it was never addressed and I thought that was something that we need to make sure people take a look at and think about because people with kids that we've identified they're the next group we don't even know who they where they are at who they are and so I and we need to be thinking about what gets people there so I guess it was just bothering me that that was a huge gap in in and then when the program that are putting that their family to recognize if that is like
033it dripping but that's like a faucet it can I get out there to figure out to turn off that faucet and that will just continue to feed into us into the China and expand our and they argued for services so I guess I just want to share their with you Chuck struck me at the time that Mexico huge huge and you don't need to comment on it and I just wanted to make sure that I said that because it really bothered me when I read that it's what jumped out but that was a missing piece and the thinking that was going into all of this the other thing is understand the transportation the transportation that the the funding provides for that low thirty thousand dollars now that is for the children who are homeless in
034a shelter or is that for kids who are ground Sinclair because we said so much surfing or iron or is it for all of the above I guess I'm trying to get a handle on which of those kids may become eligible for the the money for transit urgent any child I'm sorry I know it's okay any child who's qualified as mckinney-vento whether they're under housed what they saw in adequately house a home that is not fit for living in tents and campgrounds in a shelter and hotels any of those students if I if if are making even to staff saying they were McKinney Vento then they qualify for transportation to their school of origin period and we make that happen for some kids there's a bus route that already runs there and so it's pretty
035easy to tonight and others that's not the case correct and then we use we're very creative we can go getting them to school what we do you know surrounding districts help and share the cause so if they live like if they've been to Montara for example we would share Christ with our mushroom okay one of my concerns for a number of years here my colleagues have heard me complain about and the administration certainly could pray that we have lots of kids are transient they go from one school to the other school to the other school and I like I never knew with them with a homeless sister witness grants and stuff they recognized the importance of trying to keep the child's educational center stable and if you provide that stability for kids it's hugely important
036in terms of their their really to be successful in school and for us have been zero in on keeping service and going to them whether mental health services I mean I wonder is how many of our kids have we identify just said they're by the number of times they're moving over the course of a year the transient student yeah our transient students I mean I don't know how we keep track of it I don't know what you're looking at but but that was those the kids for expec they they're in housing for three months two months living with Grandma for awhile and they're not living with Grandma so they're living without her and someplace or in their own apartment I mean moving is is constant and I think it will this new program will help
037us with that because we can't capture that part very easily without you know one of the parts of the federal law is that we don't discriminate or call out students who have housing issues more moments upon sight so the this this project though it also here's intensive case management so I think we will very quickly get a better picture of who those movers are do the kids are who are just under housed and we need to happen it and they're going to be there until they find this live because there is a difference between always moving and I met the shelter in twin given apartment yeah we have lots of I think we're real aware that we have lots of kids families of generational poverty in particular the numbers of times that families moves always
038for a little bit of things they think there would be bad for the big better at Grandma's and it wasn't at Josie so it'll be better in our own apartment they make decisions sometimes before they have the wherewithal to maintain those decisions and traffic things happen so I guess I'm really really concerned and I think that's my final summer one of the concerns I have all along was that you never combined these supportive services to kids for the nine months that they're in school with their issues so how about we how we'll be preaching that summer camp way it's hard right I know it's been about is why I asked the question banana something so there are a couple I have thoughts about that I don't have a great answer but at the mission we
039do run a summer program right so for kids who live at the mission we can keep pretty close tabs on them and then in the fall we enroll them again and we kind of know where they've been where they're going how they did for those kids that are doubled up they very much quickly disappear into the summer and so I think we look to enrichment however we can do it whether it's additional schooling whether it's a summer camp whether it's Avondale the community center a lot of those are resources that we offer those kids just as part of you know our transition into summer it's my hope that case management somewhere has been connected so that by the time they get to summer there's someone supporting them particularly the kids were having getting many health
040services or than once I was really concerned about health issue doesn't go away just because the suburbs rate so the highway here for call through with those I guess that was like clear that was really my initial vision for this program which those there are a lot of overlapping students so I think that's fair we continue this through this summer it will look slightly different our staff are off for six weeks so they have a much shorter summer but their family service services are year-round so they will continue to meet them wherever they are to meet their needs while they're not in school so we're never alone a place that in independent like in our elementary schools or what some place that we have a center of some kind where the kids can go for
041some of these services during the summer well I'm not entirely sure I will most certainly look into it and it's I don't know the location of where Family Service will want to provide service but I know we'll be in close proximity to families and it's dependent on the funding sessions so we kind of wait well that's how it works in general like the summer family service guidance currently is in our elementary schools and so it'll be up to them where they continue to provide those services mr. Mendelson did you have a question before mrs. Kaur turns it over to miss Bower I didn't have just one brief question so you touched on two topics the understand under housed and then we mental health intervention program and I'm just curious how this blend from the under
042house student population obviously they have some some stresses that kids have stable ones don't experience to me the second program Jews like unless there's over over overly high percentage of inter-house population also need health intervention I love this this program here but I just don't know how what the combination is there a higher percentage of the under house students that need mental health and dimensions or yes sure I mean absolutely I would say that all of those kids who we've identified free and reduced lunch are at risk of some kind of that I'm hope need not necessarily that they're mentally ill but just right there's something that's causing stress a stressor because over DN a-- of itself is a stressor for kids so poverty yes and housing yes living with other family members who aren't
043your biological parents yes foster care which this program focuses on as well yes so i can't say you know sort of a Venn diagram of variables i think the important thing is to have our check our team trained and all the options or to know who to call to ask so that we get them immediately connected to where they need to go so I would say probably more often we're serving kids with the mental health intervention program who are doubled up with grandparents or cousins or aunts or uncles whereas people at the shelter tend to have they have case management there at the shelter they're more in the system for lack of a better word and so I think they're probably a little more connected they're on the watchful eye of staff there now that's
044not to say they don't need the services I just think that there are more you know family preservation and DCF or helping in case managers are helping so I would say we're sir we're catching kind of the more invisible under house people through the mento program so I know transportation is part of it what are there aspects of that our our application so excuse me we're obligated to offer immediate schooling regardless of people work you have or signatures or the right whatever it is you walk in the door you go to school making sure that we maintain school of origin making sure that students have you know but in our case we look at do you have your immunization records if not come enroll but we're also going to help you get them if you
045don't have a copy of your birth certificate that's a common issue you start at school and then we'll track down old IEP s if we need to you know all of the things that parents who lost housing that stuff gets listed away when they are no longer where they were living we're trying to think about the things we also for clothing and food and backpacks and school supplies and all the things the startup stuff writing academics of work tutoring we mean fees graduation cap and gown all that stuff to making sure that school fees and meals are immediately zeroed out so if you don't have a big collection that had when you break into school in terms of legal obligation I apologize I can't tell you right off hand but that's a general idea at
046this time [Music] so we have I think we had a little over 600 last year we had in the 400 to first the first year that I collected data in that trendline and I can pull exact numbers if you're interested it's all available on the SDU website - we were that data anyway so I just pulled data for each year because it kind of trends up and down a little but I wanted to see trend line so where are we headed and there was definitely that positive correlation you know positive I would say it's a less than 5% I think we've got who are unaccompanied youth which is covered under McKinney Vento as well so those students who have here without an indolent say I need to go to school and we have no clue
047where they're grown-ups are when I say youth though a lot of the outcome is not just some nuance we think of it in terms of homeless families but data is usually reported in terms of the youth so the person under 18 clear down to preschool so in terms of the impact avenues program they're looking at homeless youth numbers I think of it in terms of families so it's just a so as a reminder for the board you know three years ago the structure for the homeless and mckinney-vento pieces was the person oversaw the councillors also handled the homeless pieces and we have a staffer that was at the rescue mission once we approved the strategic plan and I reorganized that staff and so we still have about the branches and the audience who oversees all
048those student services she shares the counseling loan with her assistant principal at the alternative school then we hired in someone for Social Work who at one point we have this board that worked with Social Work only but I really find that having a social worker overseeing the homeless piece made the most sense in terms of that connection and that wraparound services as we can clearly see here just the level of detail and and support so that that's the way that that structure is and then of course all of these grants and other social related services just felt beautifully his place under his car the rescue mission piece his car actually shares a little bit of that with Miss Bedoya Lewis the other administrator that was placed at the alternative school and that piece is still
049a little bit of a work in progress as the other assistant principal mr. croto fossil shares on that so that's really wrapping around you how that service and we're growing that you know with making sure that we have year-round services for kids the last component of the homeless bees mr. gallant and central office staff also serve at the mission as part of this work myself included mr. Galan serves dinner at the mission and I am that dr. Mac and mrs. Kruger and others serve breakfast or lunch so that we really are seeking to understand and so we can better serve and create some responsive services at every level so we're excited about where we're going and where and what we'll see in the future through impact KCK thank you so much miss Carr for all
050that you do and for the entire team mrs. Bauer we'll be talking about the other portion of well-being and nursing services she has done strawberry pie three years ago we weren't giving dental services at all of our schools we didn't have as many individuals on the team and so I'll turn it over to miss powder of your reminder your strategic plan comment it's four point one number seven is to provide a continuum of health and community services specifically you wanted to see down on those school-based clinics and then dental services and our strategy was to implement the clinic and then our other strategy was to collaborate with agencies to expand our services with that context I'll turn it over to miss Potter [Music] to all of you we did have dental services prior to greatest
051man but it was sort of a hidden myths combination of different companies and so when the partnership was formed with Graceland in 2017 it allowed us to focus on one partnership and to help that grow and so every building now offers dental services to the students twice a year sometimes the parents accept that and sometimes they don't the Reisman dental team comes to the schools that provides cater as far as cleanings and dental screenings if students need restorative care then you do that in the building too if it's simple fillings or extraction of baby teeth that sort of thing they need more extensive restorative care then they can go to the brace med and a brick and mortar building which is a tune and Lane which just opened last year so for the 1819 school
052year there's a and so far served around eight hundred and eighty children and we expect that to probably double because that's the first semester numbers that are scheduled throughout the remainder of the school year okay so how does that impact our students it helps them because they get the care they need right there in the building parents sometimes have transportation troubles or they can't leave work or there's some concerns there and so this way they can get permission and the dental care is provided on-site kids don't lose as much school time they go get what they need done and they go right back to class another impact that we're seeing is we're seeing less students complain of two things and we're hoping that it will establish a lifetime of oral health for students to take
053care of their teeth and their health in general so nursing staff we have a total of forty in our nursing services department and every building has either an LPN or health aide placed in that building we have roving ourian's who oversee all of the clinics and make visits every day to the clinic from the staff they're special and an OB nurse this year and this little tidbit here last year our nursing services team 6,000 students for just general complain of illness headaches sore throat : flu those kinds of symptoms and we see typically the most frequent health concern is asthma and the most frequent psychological disorder is a TD ADHD most of our medications that we give are to treating a TD ADHD are there any questions mr. wood very thank you so much good
054point just so I knew so I think this is beautiful first of all it's wonderful that we're able to do this that we actually have a preferred provider and we can work on trying to streamline everything through that provider when we paid for it I'm assuming that the provider is able to build directly I don't know if it goes through to CMS ultimately in Medicaid or if the student is Medicaid eligible and even using its medical card if not I think it's the provider or somehow is able to pull down some that a federal reimbursement for what they're doing because it's with our school district rather than at this individual they either have a private pay insurance coverage for race medical help them get signed up for can care if they don't have that and
055they qualify I don't believe they do any of their care for free it's a building of some sort yes but the plus side to that is that those students that might not otherwise have care or insurance may have insurance now because of our partnership with Reisman so that's another wonderful thing you might share some very positive things like immunisations we are very good at immunisations thank you I would like to share that we are currently at 99.98% compliant with KDHE guidelines we have two students and we're still working with to try to get their immunizations count up for them I'm very proud of that our team works very hard to attract that every week and looks at those numbers so I appreciate that question because we work hard to get that up at home and
056the other thing that's and you know it's a problem and I know it's a problem everybody knows it's a problem and that's childhood obesity and I know you all do BM eyes for your students is is there any educational process associated with that BMI is that given to the parents is there any education about how to reduce the BMI or to reduce weight of weight loss just wondering where we are well I know that his physical education teachers have programs for that are ongoing about very strenuous physical activity and majoring heart rates and things like that I just think that's wonderful the only way we can combat childhood obesity is talking about it what we do is on our here in Division of screening notices copy goes home to every student after their hearing in
057vision screenings been completed there is a table on there that indicates what the BMI is and whether they need to see their physician or in primary care for follow-up or not we do not tell them that their child is underweight or overweight or anything we just simply ask them or recommend that they talk to their healthcare provider as far as nursing staff doing any sort of educational piece I'm not aware that we're doing anything in that area and of course the schools can't be responsible for everything but it would be nice if we if the Health Committee figured out some way to District Health Council I should say to educate parents whether it be in a chart of the mi IU that goes with and I don't and I don't know if that's the case
058if you've got a kid with a 30-plus BMI you're really concerned about that kid so I think that would be something for the District Health Council to work on so that we could be a district that comments childhood obesity we could certainly include a copy of the BMI chart with those results that go home typically in the fall another possibility would be fourth and fifth and sixth graders that get the growth and development training or videos in the spring that would be another place where it might fit as those videos talk about nutrition and health if there's some sort of but it's if they have to scale it about two competing scales if the child steps on it then it's the scale that says you were thirty second level forever and I just wonder if
059relatively inexpensive and so there may be an opportunity to track that with students and convey that message to parents scales mr. Kurt there's somebody who wants to get on the scale I think I like to change the subject to so details it's called the nelliel what the heavy stands for the number of years on Sheldon Head Start policy committee where parents and folks talk about issues I also serve on the health advisory committee to start and for the last couple of years for sure there's been serious discussion about the need for getting blood testing and they have a requirement in Head Start that they have to have that before they can start there and it's one of the one of the pieces that they have trouble getting and in their discussions I realized that we
060don't require that for any of our other preschool kids and we don't require it for entrance to kindergarten and when we stop and think about what happened in Detroit that's intent that's not going to happen here thanks Russ but we do have a problem with lead in our environment most of us I mean I live in I'm sure every single house and as neighbor I'm going to get down to the bottom layer of hey has let in it now you know people like me they don't let anything get that far down so we never get there again but it is and we talked about many times I think I mentioned it casually to people but I think it's one of those things that that good response like it was let's take doesn't require well it
061doesn't require lots of things that we do because we know it's the right thing to do and so I guess I'm saying to you as the person who looks at all this stuff and you've got these committees and you're making cologne to talk to about and I've also talked to this person here about that issue I really would like to see us get serious consideration to adding that is one of our requirements obviously we can't give kids on a spill because it's they just require them but we certainly can say that it's one of our requirements and try very very hard to make sure that's done before they enter school it won't catch the kids that move someplace new after their you know I've proved down the testing but it makes me of a sum
062of so many things are looking at and if we have a younger person in the family who's showing signs of it than their older brothers and sisters I mean pretty well guarantee that they've also been affected by it so I just think that it's one of those little pieces that we might be able to do I think dr. Graham says for them to any miss Johnson at this point are we stood at home to families or are we sitting with the children for beam eyes it goes home on what's called a hearing and vision screening notice which shows their hearing results condition results and they're behind and we typically send it home with the students and I presented to a student that had received the information and someone interpreted form to me and then there's
063behaviors started after that so I'm did you know he doesn't a lot of times I guess what you get to high school maybe middle school you didn't have interpreters detectors I can do to offset this but I'm just wondering if we might want to consider that going to the parent for more reasons one because like you said the information ultimately wants to be there we need to be there but also just for those kind of reactions you know miss Johnson says we have a nice old parent conference time and a February conference time those are in my past districts times in which that information could be shared and then those parents that didn't show up it could be sent to them through another venue so we will explore what some options are to connect the
064right because it allows for the opportunity for the education as well for the parents that need that too dr. Michelsen of dr. Morrison's point so we'll look into that and bring back to you what changes we might be making for the future on all of the questions any other questions thank you very much next on the agenda actually I'll stick to a discussion item which is counter change for snowy days as you prepare to have a discussion just wanted to share with you with the dates that we've had and two additional dates that we've had on the calendar at this time and I believe mr. Kip had to have his child's parent conference but at this time we'd like to we want to remind you that we had a total of eight days inclement weather
065days we also want to point out at your table you have a table of the inclement weather for the past years from the normal inclement weather sir inches thank you miss Kruger for providing that is 10 inches and last year was 20 inches and this year it's over 23 inches of snow that we've had but the norm is somewhere in between 4 & 8 so we certainly have far exceeded that number of snow total and as a result we've had eight days of snow 1116 ours is the Kansas statutory requirement which includes obstruction conferences and 50% of all and service hours so with that day 8 we are asking the boards to consider the change that adding 10 minutes to each instructional day in man to the last full day's be allowable that 10 minutes
066would be the first item that we also look like for permission to utilize should we need it the April 29th day and have a full day of school with again that 10 minute extension which would be in April it may should we need at April 29th day which at this time that would be a day that certainly could be needed we're still examining the calendar but we like the flexibility to act on those two things should we need it moving forward from here which would mean that 10 minutes would be in immediate peace for the months of April and May any discussion about that so to each of the school leaders have the ability to where to put the 10 minutes at 10 minutes were having conversation about that but it would be likely that
067it would all be at the same spot so if it's 10 minutes add it to the end of the day then all schools would have so there would be consistency with that we basically just be changing with history schedule or secondary instead of 248 correct correct and at this time as we you know release for buses and get to the bus it really about ten minutes would likely not feel as much of a hardship as opposed to adding days after the last day this would be something that we could do that would not add these or in fact our current holiday schedule I agree I have to say no one likes to have to do any of this you know that it's certainly not the administration's fault you didn't try to make it so we
068think it's certainly preferable doing this and trying to sometimes question how much learning happens on very less days I know today's during spring break tonight I think you could probably now I guess my one question would be exactly when we would start [Music] right so the and for you to know mr. Kipp shared that in 2010-2011 you from February 28th to May 4th you all did something pretty similar and it was a ten minute to the end of the day and canceled teacher collaboration back in 2010 and so this would be again starting the first uh school day April might bleed what happens as well in May and then that April 29th that some professional development day I do want to share that we've had conversation about Tyler which prior to the snow day we
069have conversation because there was some Tyler training in January very early for counselors and normally Tyler invites to train closer to when it's going to start because there's a lot of information so the actual official training day would have been in August anything prior to that would have been early exposure just because we had this extra time if you remember we were when implement Tyler earlier than now and when we delayed it just to have power school for another day we just had this full year to just give lots of you know opportunity should someone want that exposure we did not get a great deal of positive feedback on the counseling full day because it was just too much information and too early and and so we planned to make that adjustment mr. Galan can't
070speak to any items on Tyler but he's done a fantastic job of making sure that our own staff at each of the schools is trained in Tyler so we have some internal talent thickening or great staff development but August is amazing training mister do you want to add to that sure the only other thing that I would add to that is that we will give additional opportunities should we not be able to use the training will give us some additional opportunities at the building level or staff meetings just just initial exposures became the primary focus for training on the how to and being ready for school is planned for the fall and so that would not have been a required attendance that April day to begin with we'll also be offering it over the summer
071or someone really wants to come and just see it evenings and late nights will be offered that still scope but again that would have been optional it'll still be optional and the action training will continue in August so then April 29th again rather than adding days at the end of the school year thank you mr. Galan or using any of the holidays we'd like for our teachers to keep their holiday and certified the classified staff to have those pieces and the other item I'd like to add in them which department had to step out and the only other item that I'd like to add the classified staff we would like to do two things and support our classified staff in the future mr. mr. Robbins has spoken with his steering committee and he will be
072looking at proposing giving them greater access to their leave time so when you had more than three snow days he will be proposing that for discussion and that discussion had to be underway for the next year currently they're restricted and how many leaf days they can use when there's a snow day and so aligned creating the greater access to that for the immediate future however we are allowing them to come in and work one day that they might otherwise have been off so Friday is one of those days that they can come in and then there'll be a second day so that's one way to make up for those two days but they have not been able to come in is the board comfortable with those are at least the pieces that we'd like to
073lay out for you as some next steps and support of our staff and in accommodating these fillings sir any questions so we can go forward to action item and could I have any motion to accept with it's national anthem that's proposed mr. president I move that we suspend the rules and move the plan changes for the calendar to accommodate school snow days be moved to an action item I'm sorry thank you all I was really early yeah that's what happened I skipped okay I just moved that we proved the change for the calendar to a felony for snow days evolution has technical discussions that most woods so he hasn't already telegraphed and we're prepared to to support this I think encouraging so no I I really didn't think this is the best option as I
074mentioned earlier I wish we had started earlier so we try to get more instructional time before they get into that critical Testament period I would lament the fact that the high stakes test is so critical in our world and we think so much about it but is the reality we know all of our students are capable of eating meeting their goals it'd be great if it started early either way I think this less the least disruptive and the most productive for students in terms of learning and getting some additional time and more so than adding days on the end of the school year or so I may ask mr. just for my clarity then the flexibility then is that 10 minutes is agreeable and starting it as or you're comfortable when you're comfortable with starting
075it when we need to start it and and concluding it when it needs to conclude is that that level of flexibility then we'll go back and look at those dates and times thank you could we have to vote on it now okay ready for board member comments wavering wait can you find his is so many kids win that's great there's Mickelson miss Johnson made me think of a club my pastor always says that if you don't if you think your lady area nobody's following you you're a man along the wall watching from afar whatever I also went to the cabin last night at 10 Hana Park where dr. Puri took us through the process of them finding our students that were dropping down and I love the team effort and we saw how some of
076our efforts at the board and administration guidance to get our counselors and our social workers in there working as part of their team and I mean I don't know cut so welcoming I was there when name for our new nurse bed students they had the IEP meetings but it was it was definitely family friendly their auditorium for our organ Jim we saw families and teachers just getting understanding about those efforts I real quickly want to know ask indulgence of the board because I was we know that we've had been having a discussion about the homosexuality classroom curriculum and I think there were so many lessons learned from me is that the board members they're so process as we talked about communication as we talked about just ensuring that people know the word we're being transparent
077around whatever we can district and understanding on long that were there to serve them as families and parents with children and parents so real quickly I'm just going to read this this whole pick me I'm gonna read through the comments from Highland Park because I think that was the one comment as well okay so these are the ones that I just make I make note of as I was listening I was the most severe as an observer a recent Topeka high graduate said when she asked the question when did the gender identity become a thing that's what she said that would belong in school she says that it was not being top of the time because she was having those struggles herself she said for her if she would have had a full beard and
078everything she said that she has suffered a lot of abuses and she's been to many foster homes and she was going down that road but she was she was confused who she was and thankfully she said that when she got turned eyes foster home she was able to find out who she was and so she's she's doing one now she happens to be one TPS graduates as well believe she graduated in 2017 another patron said we've talked a lot about protecting LGBTQ students when they come out but what kind of protections are there in place for students who don't agree what they alternative my Styles a woman brought out the fact that her niece has some concerns about being bully because she would not identify as LGBTQ or along that spectrum and she said that
079she was concerned about her identity and there was there was no one oh one picture brought out the fact that there was no one in the room who was saying who would not agree that abstinence is the only surefire way to avoid pregnancy and STI but they were concerned that during the presentation that the graphics didn't support that we knew that that's what we want to push for our children even though they might make other decisions but I wanted to bring out the mr. Berg maybe they responded to that in my time we had the next parent meeting she had a slide at least since this is the only hundred percent sure way of dealing with these issues and then she to me that it's going to be impactful for students as well one a
080parent did ask a question and I think what about for me was that understanding that because we have K through 12 students which are not students who can leave a classroom anytime they want to whatever something that is being taught there they're subjected to it and so when we teach a curriculum we have to keep in mind that parents have dropped their children off expecting us to at least have understanding that they wanted to deal with the impact to be for them or or get something that they have to deal with that they don't they're not even I'm given the courtesy of being in responding to it so the parents they're worth work that's coming from she said why didn't the district or the board do this without do that why did they do this
081without talking with parents first because they said they really were we have some very concerns about it and that she was teaching her son to be a bore because based off his Anatomy and that she would hope that the school district would expect that as well and the last one that I think I said you said that you're trying to you say you're not trying to induct any children but everyone in America knows that the Stars for LGBTQ is rainbow to represent a certain lifestyle and they were concerned about as put in the unicorn with a thought bubble that was appeared to be pushing the same lifestyle that goes back to the clarification of messages that we want to give to our students what we say want to be reiterated with the visuals that we
082presented them and they were there were concerning that that issue was playing scene another fusion one mother said we don't need to teach a certain woman lifestyle did she children to be kind to one another and not to holding one another and she said children love people regardless of the curtain these characteristics they love them simply because they are human beings and I think the piece that came out that was most powerful at the end was not a bashing of a lifestyle because what we understand is we all have our own choices but they were basically saying you know that's not indoctrinate all children as soon as if they're all thinking the same it's all as if they all have the same values that and I think it doesn't make it hard when we talk
083about a district teaching any subject matter like this for values is a centerpiece of that that we all have different sets of we hope that we're agreeing on some level but ultimately each of our homes we put we we get around a certain set of values of the most properties that came out of that for me was when they went to brainstorming about how do we fix this so that we're working in concert with the district and that we're not finding one another and what came out of it is they said schools teach academics so can we talk about the anatomical things as one of a part of a class and then can we talk about lifestyle choices as another part of their instruction hoping to give opportunity for those who who subscribe who are
084interested feel like that's a apartment Richmond give them an opportunity for that enrichment and so to me that was powerful because it says that we are not trying to be dictatorial we instead are trying to be collaborative but we want that to be us and the district working together for the good of our students knowing that whatever happens with any of our students the parents is left to to help them through that lifestyle you know what's the Graduate pic of public schools and no no he's no longer here when we're all over here that parent has to help navigate them through that and so I believe we did wanted to pick a higher I think there was a some concern about the direction at that time as far as what what December was going to
085teach whether she was teaching parents to be parents or what she was just sharing the content thankfully mr. Wallace was able to correct that so that the other two meanings were really talking about the content of the classes that we're going to be sharing and that there just adds to a trust level that here's our curriculum this is what will be teaching now now that it's here but what the feedback is and I think that's everything okay thank you mr. Johnson petrol carton I think I think I don't need to add a lot to that because I've shared before you know kind of my viewpoint and I mean I can summarize the about the Topeka West meeting and it sounds like all the meetings I think they went really well and I think we accomplished
086our objective of being able to share deeply with the parents and giving them multiple opportunities to come and experience the curriculum and to make a decision on something that we know is a sensitive subject and controversial for many families it is part of the legal requirement that parents be allowed to opt out of something that they find objectionable in the curriculum not an entire class right because as they're required for graduation but to opt out of particular pieces that go against their values and that's a right and we respect that and so I very much appreciate that we have the opt-out option I I would say that that we kind of go back to where where this began which was with our district Citizens Advisory Committee and the work that they did kind of reviewing
087what they as families and parents and community members and staff would recommend in terms of best practices in human sexuality education for our young people those are B's they did recommend that we take a look at the national standards and they also conducted a survey that sampled our parents into which the vast majority definitely favored an opt-out approach on that survey the the most controversial topic was around gender identity gets questions about and so you know with that in mind I want as many kids as possible to access as much of the curriculum as possible so I'm definitely a mountable if it works within this importance curriculum and presentation if she's able to portion out the the pieces around gender identity and sexual orientation and and even the relationship issues were things that that some
088parents were less supportive of they weren't necessarily against but the you know Mike my own opinion is I would like all kids to receive all the curriculum I think it's you know I we respectfully disagree on this that I don't believe that educating that gender idea is going to lead anyone into down that path I think that as a mental health professional worked extensively with transgender children and I know that that best practices is giving kids room to explore and being supportive of them and that as the very very vulnerable population that they are that that's the strongest intervention that we can make to support their mental health and it is the strongest predictor of reducing suicide I'm going to switch to thinking administration began for the amazing mental health initiatives that we have been
089putting forward I had another meeting with a mental health committee this week and it was just a really nice time to review went through I am so impressed with the leadership dr. Grimes I really thank you for all that you're doing to pull people together and we just have outstanding people at the table [Music] the hats off to you mrs. car just very impressed with all that you're doing for children I would also add that at that meeting the super was there to report some on Jared I'm me and and she I thought recorded some really remarkable information which was that seven of the children were being prepared to be returned to their home schools and you know this has always been a concern of artists that as kids are identified and pulled out for
090intensive intervention that somehow they never made it back right and in fact that that does not appear to be happening she described how as kids progressed and improved at that program in jardine they then are moving them into regular classrooms at jardim i as a test to ease them back and i think through her leadership and working with teachers and preparing a school climate that embraces that and helps kids be successful that is what is now getting those kids ready to take the next step which is to go back to the classroom rather than throwing them from one very protective environment into something that might be too overwhelming and we're just seeing improved communication from the sending and the fact that they're receiving schools just much better practices that I think are going to really
091pay off for us in terms of not just student achievement that student help them success in the safety yeah so it's a good pep talk at the meeting very nice oh and then that one further piece was that the the next step for sure is to continue to try to help teachers and implementing those practices in their classrooms and building capacity so including training of principals and teachers and those trauma-informed practices mr. woods Thank You mr. president well so one thing I guess I'll follow both Reverend Williams and miss Johnson's leadership quotes I just shared with PEG that I have always liked from former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher who said being a leader is a lot like being a woman you know if you have to show somebody or tell someone that you are
092your and if anybody can capture it it's the Iron Lady when I need to be a leader really what I want to do with my short comment time this week I went to a parent-teacher conference and just absolutely remarkable let me express my population for all of our teachers and all the hard work that they do it is so much fun to go in and to watch these folks who you know have so much work to do and they got big you know big jobs I've got you know 18 to 24 of students in their classes they are tracking each and every single one of these and so now believe it or not both of my kids are actually old enough or they're at the state testing age so they are then actually tracking you
093know they've got all these formative assessments they can tell me how they did at the end of you know their last year to this corner to that quarter where they are each fascicle specific subject and we're looking at all the other things that they do normal social and emotion development I just walked away blown away with even more appreciation for for these folks and what they do work is these are things that I like to become relatively educated person but I couldn't do so and the average average person we couldn't do this by ourselves so big thank you and big shout out to all of our educators out there and that goes for everybody from the principal down to the classroom teacher to the arrow who may work with a student individually in classes yes
094hopefully what I haven't noticed nobody think it's out there for the record I with that I'll conclude my comments but glad to be back thanks again to miss her I too AM in facilities with how much we've put together for the mental health needs of our kids I can remember when those of us who are on the board that's a lot of time we went around to the way to assigned the different schools and we all heard the same thing that there's something that's happened to our kids that the mental health issues are awful and it was I was done if there were benefits of this comment to us and I and it paid off because we listened we talked we've been talking about it we have finally I think through it has been here
095we've actually been able to finally put things into action to provide for these kids and we're on our way I just hope that we can sustain because it's whether we like it or not it's called money now of Health Center if I like Sarah Palin it's oh yeah maybe family service and the guidance can't do it for free they have to hire highly trained people to do it we have to have highly trained people to do it there are a rare breed out there right now it's not something people are jumping to jump to do because it's not something that's highly valued I think in this community mental health services are highly valued we've a long history of a community involved in mental health but we're the exception so keeping the money flowing out there
096it's going to be a baby for us and we keeping that program sustained here in this community in our schools if it's going to be important for us to try to sustain them on another thing I just have a question if I I thought that Wednesday when we canceled school was that supposed to be our a CT testing day the state I think that I heard that and all across the state the state program was so I we weren't the only school I mean the whole county was closed the county's above us in the city area they're all closed so I wonder what was going to happen there is a plan and a main theme for an April 2nd sorry the makeup day is April 2nd this is this little baby the state's paying for
097so we they even get yes this isn't that this is the state-sponsored one so we need to get all of those bodies in there we get that testing yes so April 2nd is also the second a CT session that we were paying for students to take as well so that might reduce some of our cost of their well yes their day so this is for day only paying for juniors right juniors and the seniors who had not taken it ok this is here this is here it would only meet juniors ok I misunderstood so so it yeah so we will always probably have to pick up some kids but yes that will help us well that's great great news I have very little to say and so you don't have to turn the 3-minute pain
098I'd like to tell miss Johnson that it's been a privilege to work with you and if you want to do another four years I understand but if you don't could you find a clone a twin [Music] but thank you very much it's been a pleasure it really has and with that I'll take that emotion any discussion raivo [Music] all favor