001United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Take a moment for a silent afflection, please. Thank you. >> Okay. Item C. Um, we have some meetings of note. The board faculty meeting at Kenneth Henderson Middle School is Wednesday, September 10th at 7:15 a.m. Four or more board members may be in attendance. uh board faculty meeting at Horus Good Middle School on Tuesday, September 23rd at 7:20 a.m. or more board members may be in attendance. And we have board faculty meeting at Charles Stones Intermediate Center Wednesday, September 24th at 7:45 a.m. Four or more board members may be in attendance. and a board faculty meeting at Garden City achieved Wednesday, September 24th at 3:30 p.m. for more more board members may
002possibly be in attendance also. On to item D, approval of agenda. >> I move to approve the meeting agenda. >> So moved and seconded. Is there any discussion? All in favor, raise your hand. Oppose. Same. Motion carries. Okay. Item E, delegations, Q&A, or public comments. Is there any? Nope. Okay. See enough? Okay. Hey, item E1, a building presentation from the principal, Lucas Sullivan from Garden City Achieve. Okay. Um, so in the past we've kind of talked about different programs like our therapeutic education, um, the virtual strive. Today we're going to focus more on Guard City Achieve and I've got some uh student leaders here from our Lighthouse teams and they they want to introduce themselves. So I'll have them introduce themselves when it's their um turn to go. But uh we're going to talk a
003little bit about uh how our leader and me what we've been doing. Um a lot a lot of it was last year's um activities that we did. Um but leader me is is the thought that what we really in year four of leader me have given students the the power and the um giving them um it we say it's their school. It's not our school. It's not the teacher school. It's their school. So they've been doing a lot more the decision- making and doing a lot more of um making and coming up with ideas and um doing some different community events. Um, one thing our uh through our leader me process, we came up with a mission statement. All the uh the three lighthouse teams and I'll talk about the three lighthouse teams, but they
004all came up with their own mission statement. We kind of tweaked it and then voted for the best one. So, um this was something that they came up with uh for a mission statement last year. At Garden City Achieve, our mission is to empower and inspire our students to rise up, embrace their potential, reach new heights of academic excellence, personal growth, and community engagement. And we're going to talk a little bit about um how we are doing that. Um one thing this year, um this is kind of our theme for the year. It's uh and and a lot of our kids maybe come from um maybe not a a two parent household or they have a lot of tra trauma um and and so we we're we're really talking to them about hey you can't
005change the hand you were dealt but it's how you kind of play your hand. So moving forward, how you go and don't allow however the environment you maybe grew up in um dictate how your life um through graduation will be. And so all of our kids and our teachers came up with one word or or a saying that kind of represented like I did present this year and I know Miss Yman was going to be daring. What was your This is my >> Yeah. confidence. So, um just uh that's kind of our theme this year and the the black and red goes well with the uh playing cards. So, um just a little bit of data. So, we do a measurable results assessment. So, it's an MRA. We do this every year. Um our we
006get our teachers um our students and our parents to take an assessment and we try to look at our data. And so, the black was two years ago, the red was last year. and um talking to our leader and me coach um we're one of the only high schools in the um country that showed growth in every area. So I thought it was really positive. You try to make three points of growth and as you can see our academic score with empowering teachers was a three-point growth. Um empowering learners was 10 point growth. Um our goal achievement um through our fast bridge um and our was a five-point growth. Um student leadership a sevenpoint growth. um staff leadership 11 points, family and community um leadership 11 points and then through culture we had a six-point
007growth in supportive student environment and then supportive staff environment um was a 17 point growth. So um really cool to see um our stakeholders and our our students um think that we are doing things the right way and headed in the right direction. Um one thing um every student that comes to achieve high school is placed in a um in a an action team. So we have the culture action team, academics action team and leadership action team. Through that we have um we have a student lighthouse team. So this was last year's lighthouse team. Um we had two representatives that represented culture, leadership and academics. They would meet with um our adult lighthouse team. they would train. And so this was them um as part of the superintendent search last year. Um and so this
008group of individuals are have been voted to be a part of our lighthouse team uh going into this year. And and so one thing we do is uh any new student that comes to achieve and we've gotten kids from the virtual academy and we've gotten uh some kids from other alternative schools um kids from Garden City High School obviously some kids from Hulkcom and so every kid that comes into our building so they learn the seven habits they learn about leader me we have them take a leader me elective class so this is this year's group of kids and they're they do a lot of community projects they've been to the senior citizen um building already to just talk to the seniors and and hang out. This is them at the house um helping stock
009food and sort food. So um every kid that comes into our doors that needs an elective has a leader and me class so they kind of know because we're already on past the seven habits. We're into core um three into leader and me where the students really take a leadership role. Um and so that's just one thing we do to kind of get our new kids into uh the leader me process. Now I will allow and introduce yourself sir. >> Hello everyone. My name is and today I will be talking about our academic action teams. >> This is our big rock posters from last year which has our goals in it and just our goals in. And then this is our big rock poster. We had it in the hallways. It had every goal we
010had. And this is how we track how everyone get their A's and B's and C's. Right here is are how we figure out our ASL work. So like if you're fisher tol, you could just put a dot or mark on there and then teachers will know you did your work. And this is our weight tracking poster. You can go. Okay. >> Uh this is our hall of fame students who have been in the school for two years graduating straight A's. And then this is your honor rules. >> And so yeah, we do a quarterly honor role and and present those students. So I think there's 18 individuals up there which is almost 20% of our our kids at that time were on the either the principal's OA honor roll or the AB honor role. Um,
011and that was at the third quarter. Since we're on the quarters, we do a a little celebration for honor roll every quarter. >> And then food truck Fridays basically expand itself. If you're passing all your classes on Fridays, teachers get to bring your students to food truck Fridays. >> Thank you, Minsky. Introduce yourself. >> Good afternoon. My name is Jayla and um this is our big rock culture and these are our goals for the year. Family engagement and family partnerships. Um this is us going to the homecoming parade. We basically do this to represent achieve and get out into the community and we invite invite staff, students and family. >> We did have kids from our TP and Strive and the high school all participate which was really cool to see all ages. >> Hello.
012Good afternoon. My name is Amelia. And right here it shows our mentoring classes decorating their own cars for TP and Strive students for a trunk or treat. But later on in the day, we moved it to the parking lot so everyone in the community can come out and get some candy. Here it shows u more about what Mr. Soul was talking about. We went to the senior citizens and we delivered them ornaments with like messages on them and they were very appreciative about that. >> Good evening. My name is Casey Leaper. I'm going to be talking about our culture action team. So based on our MAS last year when we work on trusting relationships in physical and social environments. Um so every quarter we do a graduation walk where the graduates walked down the hallway,
013we play music and just kind of celebrate them graduating. Uh last year we had a kid from Strive leave the district so we let him put on a cap and gown to honor his leaving and we invite the families to come to the grad bar. >> And it's been really cool to have the parents come in for that and we do a a little celebration um and bring in like cookies and juice for the parents and and families of the graduates. Um, so when we do our parent teacher conferences, we provide food so we hopefully get more people to come to our MASS and then we have kind of a picture thing so the families can take pictures. Uh, last year during Christmas we did a Christmas light walk where we walked around Steven's Park
014and looked at all the lights and then we went to the Crockett Real Estate Agency and for hot chocolate and cookies and they had a picture with and the whole family was invited to come. So some of the next steps um obviously we have leader me to achieve. I would like to start incorporating some of those things into our therapeutic school and then I'm also in talks with a virtual academy in California that uses leader and me so trying to maybe get some of the leader me into our um virtual academy and it's been really cool. I mean, the the algebra and English are very important, but just a lot of the memories that they've created, a lot of the family events that we've been able to get families in the building and do some
015things like the Christmas lights in Stevens Park. It was a huge turnout. There was a lot of families there and our kids, kids that you wouldn't expect probably to go um really participated in it. So again at the end of the day um graduation is our expectation at Achieve and then um through the leader and me process we've really uh tried to um get involved and and bring some things back to the community. So and that's all we have for presentations. >> Perfect. Anybody have any questions? questions, but the results that you have at measurable results assessment. Was that correct? >> That's impressive. You guys did really develop pretty relationship. >> Yeah. I we were kind of shocked by and and we did get the most. So, at that parent teacher conference, we kind of
016we kind of made the parents um do the MRA before they could get a ticket to go eat. And so now we were able to get we were able to get more parent buy in and some more parent results because we had had a lot of student results. We had a lot of staff results but we hadn't had a parent results. So they they came up with that idea to to feed and then they they were there with their laptops getting every every parent that walked in the door to take the MRA so we just get a better idea of of where we need to go. So >> good job. Can you uh all just take turns and share a little bit about what made you decide to join the student leadership lighthouse team and
017then maybe what you might have feel like you you've gotten out of it so far. >> So why why' you join them? >> I joined the lighthouse team because last year I would come here a lot. Not last year, like two years ago, I come here a lot because I was a troublemaker. Uh when I went to achieve, started getting my grades up and this year I decided just going to change myself forever and I'm going to try to help other people do the same thing as I did. And that's why I'm here. >> Thank you for sharing that. And the reason I guess the high school I was also failing a lot of classes. So I came here to get like the double credit classes so I could pass and the leadership thing just
018seemed like a cool thing to join cuz they choose out like the activities and study the school does. So that was interesting. Um, I also chose to be leadership because my grades were really bad at high school and like coming to achieve like that changed me and I feel like it made me feel like I have more control over it and like being in control like makes it like make better about things. I joined it because I wanted to kind of help lead by example and help people and I just thought it'd be a good way to get out there and show everybody I appreciate each of you and uh stepping up being student leaders and setting good examples for your peers. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> You did a great job leading. >>
019Yeah, I I mean I'm I'm thoroughly impressed with with you and the students and staff and everything that goes on there and and keep it up. You guys are doing some great things. >> You're almost done, Linsky. I promise. >> To say something else? Um, >> I forgot to say about our fast scores last year. It our fashion scores increased than it did I don't know. I wasn't here last two years ago. I was only here for one year. This is my second year. So, but all I know is that our fashion scores increased more than it did. >> Yeah. And some of that was I I don't know if we always took it seriously and then when we did take it seriously, we saw a lot of growth. that we're going to try to
020keep making that growth with those schools. So, >> awesome guys. >> Thank you guys. >> If there's what you want, please turn around. Take We're gonna take >> right here. >> Yeah. Right there. Scoot up. Get in there. >> Look. >> Get in there. >> I know. Like I'm color coordinated. >> All right. One, two, three. One, two, three. One, two, three. Good job. Good job, guys. Thank you guys. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Very good. Okay, we'll move on to item F, the consent agenda. Mr. President, I move to approve the consent agenda items as presented. A >> second move and second. Is there any discussion? All in favor, raise your hand. Opposed the same sign. Motion carries. Item G, new business. Uh G1 board of education has asked to consider and approve
021the change from American Fidelity to benefits direct Marilife per the recommendation from the insurance committee of CFO Jessica Nler. >> Okay, a little different than what was originally planned. So just a little backstory on how we got here. Um per the negotiated agreement, a committee uh comprised of five classified staff members, one from each area of nutrition, transportation and etc. five union members and then an administrator, myself, Rebecca and Melinda, um is responsible if we ever want to make any kind of benefit changes. So, we met we have heard um like on our supplemental insuranceances, we heard a presentation from benefits direct and the committee voted overwhelmingly to proceed with benefits direct over American Fidelity. So that was the original recommendation coming to you guys tonight. And then Friday morning, American Fidelity reps came into
022my office and um have asked if they could have a chance to present to the committee as well. So I said um the committee had already made a a decision, but the I could pull them and see if they wanted to. So asked the committee and they thought yeah, like they were willing. It was it was like a little less than 50/50, but I felt like the vote was close enough to honor um them to come in. So, set up a time for them to come Wednesday afternoon. So, American Penelli will present to that same committee and then um I will pull the committee again to vote um which direction they'd like to go. So, no financial bearing on the district because it is all employee money. Um but again they've heard a presentation from
023benefits direct and now American Fidelity would like to come back with a presentation. So we will have a the the committee will have a recommendation at the next meeting on September 25th where we will need action to stay in the timeline for our open enrollment that starts in um November. So no action tonight. Just more information. Um but I'll be back next meeting. >> Thank you. >> Thanks. We'll move on to item H, board open discussion. Jackie, you're up. >> Really don't have much, I guess. >> Okay, Andy. >> Uh, yeah, short meeting tonight, but uh really appreciated the students from Achieve and and Mr. Sullivan. Um, it was really cool to hear each one of those students kind of share their personal reason for deciding to become a student leader and it's just great.
024>> Yeah. And I agree with that. I I really enjoy that and I'm really uh I have faith in society again when I see kids like that that are willing and working hard and and trying to to make it. And I think school's off to a good start. I knock on wood. So yeah, let's keep it going probably. Um, I am glad to have the kids back. I think it's always nice to see them and it always is amazes me. There's always a thread of something similar with a thread of something that makes each school stand out a little bit on their own. And so it's it's nice to see the differences and the similarities and looking forward to a great year. always look forward to hearing from the different schools and it was great
025to hear from guard city chief tonight and Mr. Sullivan and the students and Andy I'm really glad you asked the question what motivated them because then we heard from them and it was it was interesting and and uh gave some hope and faith in comm in society as as Randy put it. So school's off to a start hopefully a good start and just just look forward to continuation of it. Nathan agree with everything of course has been said already with achieve and everything that's happening there. I do appreciate the community that is being built uh within our school system. I think a lot of positive things are going on. I'm hearing a lot of good things and so also want to say a huge thanks to transportation. I know that they're out there every day
026getting things taken care of and I've had just nothing but good things that I've seen that have gone on with that. So I appreciate their hard work and up and doing that and uh just all the teachers that are coming behind everything and we making things move forward. So appreciate their hard work and dedication. That's all. >> Hey John, >> I don't have a lot that's different than anybody else. But I did want to mention achieve. I thought that was a nice presentation and there's just a lot of positive things going on over there and his team has worked really hard. So appreciate them coming in. I know they've been trying to come in for a while, I think, but it's nice to have him in the room with their students. >> Yeah, I would
027just um I think Lucas has really done a great job at Achieve. I mean, you you look at the culture of that building. Um the staff have nothing but positive things to say about the culture in that building and I think he's done a phenomenal job there. um going around and and and visiting at buildings. I feel like this has been one of the best years that and going to knock on wood too, Randy, because I don't want to jinx it. I it always makes me nervous, but I feel like we've had a very positive start to the year. I mean, um talking to folks, we've had some glitches and some some speed bumps, but nothing that you wouldn't expect at the beginning of the school year. Um and I think we've handled those really
028well. And um I feel like, you know, going into the classrooms and seeing instruction the first week of school has been really, really positive. and I felt like we just hit the ground running and and it's it's been a positive and we just need to keep that momentum and keep that that drive going um through May now. So, >> okay. Item I the next board meeting uh the next boarding of the board of education will take place on Thursday, September 25th, 2025 at 5:00 pm in the board meeting room at Educational Support Center here at 12:05 Fleming Street. Okay, we'll move on to item J, executive session. >> Mr. President, move we go into an executive session for minutes. Mark >> 10 minutes. 20 for 20 minutes to review and discuss compliance with state or
029federal law with an attorney pursuant to the exception for matters which would be deemed privilege in the attorney client relationship under KMA beginning at 6:30 p.m. and the open meeting will resume in the board meeting at 6:50 p.m. I would like to invite Josh Gman, Drew Vuitton, Steve Norby, Jessica Northern and Jennifer Cunningham to join us in the executive session. Second move in second. Is there any discussion? All in favor raise your hand. Same. Motion carries. >> That's how you add a yogurt. I'm a little angry. My stomach's growling. If you hear it, don't worry. Just >> remind that I turned it on. It lasted like for two minutes. Then it flash red and shut off. >> Don't last very long, I guess.