001Walker, we have students, get up here, please. We're on you to the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. We'll take a moment for reflection. Um, that bachelorette service is that bachelorette. I thought I didn't know if that was a typo or a service Sunday, May 11th at 3 p.m. at Garden City High School Auditorium. Four or more board members may be in attendance. And we have the Garden City High School Hall of Fame induction ceremony May 16th at 5:30 p.m. The Garden City High School. Four or more board members may be in attendance. Uh Garden City Achieve and Virtual Academy graduation May 17th at 10:30 a.m. at Horses Good Middle School. Four or more board members may be in
002attendance. And finally, Garden City High School graduation May 18th at 1 p.m. at the Garden City High School. Four or more board members may be in attendance. Item D, approval of agenda. Uh, one amendments at item D1, additional certified and classified personnel actions for consideration item F3. Okay, Mr. President, I move to approve as amended. Second move and seconded to approve the agenda. Any discussion? All in favor raise your hand. Oppose. Same. Motion carries. Item E, delegations and public comments. Uh, Levi Bern. Yeah, Levi Bman, teacher of the Garden High School. Um, GCA negotiator. Um, support of Julie Cridge and Ultra Brown. Um, Julie Copridge is retiring, Mal Brown, and I cannot say enough about how much of an impact she has made on my children's lives. Um, my son was at a different school
003for a little bit, did not have a good experience, um, was pre-identified. Um, moved all to Brown. They worked with him before an IEP, before a 504. Um, they understood some of the challenges that he was facing. Um, and Julie took that on head first and um, he has grown tremendously um, at that school. Um, and he, um, is now identified, has had the supports throughout the entire time. He's had three firstear teachers who Julia has helped support who have given him fantastic supports in the classroom, a fantastic education. Um, and he just won student of the month this month and we are super proud of him. Um, anybody in the district would be lucky to go to Alter Brown and would have been lucky to have Julie as their principal. Um, and so I
004just wanted to thank her, thank the district for having her in your district for so long because she was she was amazing. Okay. Item E1, recognition of Ronald McDonald House, uh, the Pocket Path Challenge winning school, Amy Burch. Good evening. Um, this is my first year doing this. I think you're used to seeing Janet and Roger Reed up here. Um, I took it over from them since they retired. Um, so I'm here to present the 2024 2025 Ronald McDonald charity pop tab challenge between the schools. We had seven schools that participated. Um, we um gathered 284.7 pounds of pop tabs that will be donated to the Ronald McDonald House. Um, this actually helps us in Southwest Kansas be able to be with loved ones while they're either being treated or in the hospital if you
005have a minor. um Ronald McDonald House in Witchaw served um 1,287 families in 2024 and that meant 6,355 nights that families were able to stay right there by their loved one while they were going through treatment. Um, I really appreciate USD457 for allowing me to do this and for um this competition to go on. I really feel like it's a great cause. Um, this year's um winner is Georgia Matthews. They've won it the last three years. Um, is there anybody from George Matthews here? I'll make sure and get this to them. Thank you. I can take it. Okay, thank you very much. Item P2 recognition of KNA just imagine justice campaign award winners Rebecca Burpin who's the sponsor night Well, I am Ronnie and I am the GCA president, the local president. And so, Kiera
006has a scholarship program for students and it's called the student expression campaign. And so, basically, these students are asked, "What does social and racial justice mean and look like to you?" Um, that's available to anybody in 9th through 12th grade. They must have a K&A member sponsor, but it doesn't have to be their teacher. Um, we had someone in the district that needed a sponsor, then they could reach out and ask me as the local president to sponsor them or any member. Um, so last year we had six of 10 of the winners and Becca blew them away with her students. So that kind of created a little competition. So this year kind of tried to jump in and take a few, but uh this year we still had four out of eight of the
007awards and Alfredo also had students that participated. So I'm going to let them talk now. I don't really know what to say. Um last year I was at this conference and I got to see Becca and I got to see her students be a part of that and that kind of inspired me a little bit to get involved with it. So I asked her a few questions. I found out a little bit more about the process of getting involved with this project and I jumped into it this year. It was in the middle of having some of the snow days that we had. So, it was kind of a short week when I gave this project to my students, but we were learning about civil rights and what young people can do to change the
008world. So, that's kind of how I tied it into my curriculum and what I was doing. And I gave students the option of entering into the contest if they wanted to. They knew there was some money involved with it. Um, some of them made the decision not to enter the contest, but I had quite a few of them that did, and it was something that really paid off for the ones that, you know, decided to join and see what would happen. And Ruby was one of those. Um, I teach, uh, social studies. Um, so an important note is that the teachers are all kinds of teachers. We have like digital, marketing, art, social studies, ELA. Um, so for social studies, uh, my 10th graders, which would be Natalie and Rosalyn, this came at the end
009of the French Revolution where we see the Declaration of Rights and Ma'am, um, which is what we have today in US history that kind of mimics our bill of rights. Um, and they look at that and they get the question posed to them. Um, and it gives them so many options of what to produce. Um, it's open-ended. They get to choose what that looks like to them. Um and then for 11th grade which is Elazar's um they start in 11th grade post civil war so reconstruction all the way to the progressive era. Um and so we look at the whole semester all the topics and they get the same question posed to them. Um and so Elazar is my single 11th grade winner this year from that. Um, we're going to turn it over to
010the students and let them kind of just tell you what they produced and maybe what it meant to them or what their idea is. You're they you have their work. Um, it's also published online. Um, but this is a great opportunity for our winners. They already got their scholarship money. They got to tr uh go to Witchah to celebrate and it's paid for by the NEA. Um, so it's a great experience for the families as well. Um, so I'll start with Elzar. He's gonna tell you what an amazing ontime student he is. Hello. Um, as you can see, my drawing was the uh drawing that says we all believe the same. Um, now me personally, if I'm looking at it, I I thought, well, it's not as good as the other ones. And that's because
011um me being a high schooler, I did a little bit of procrastination. Uh but I guess it still comes to show you that um no matter what you're thinking, it always matters. Even if you turning the assignment late or whatever you're doing, whatever you think matters. And when Miss Burman gave me this assignment, I was thinking, what do I do for this assignment? And after, of course, my procrastination, um that's just kind of what I fell on because that's just really what came into my heart to draw. And yeah. Rub is an ASL student, so sometimes she's a little bit shy when it comes to speaking English in front of large groups of people. [Music] Okay. So, her project is towards the end. Um she said something that inspired her is just something that in
012the world she notices that there's a lot of machismo. Um there's violence against women, women who get murdered regularly. And that's something that she wants to change in the world. Um she eventually hopes that there's not so many um I guess differences in how men and women are treated in the world. And that's why what inspired her to make the project that she made. This is Roslin Sanchez. She has the one page poem about being a brown girl. What inspired me to make this poem was like um like being like kind of like described as different because of the way that I looked or like acted. Um, I kind of like based it off with like viewing like my family and like the way that I like grew up and like the way that I
013like she Natalie has the three-page long poem that you probably can't get to tonight, but it's very very much worth your time um about how she perceives religion. So, first and foremost, I always try to um keep everything centered around Jesus Christ and um what he's doing in my life and in the world. And so, um especially being a teenager, it's hard to stay on the narrow path. Um but it's very important because um it lives it live leaves to it leads to eternal life. And so, um, in this poem, I just if I have any opportunity to, you know, maybe plant a seed in someone's life, um, I'm gonna take the opportunity. And so, that's what my goal was. Did you want to shake their hands or do you have any questions for them
014before that? Yeah. Is there any questions? No. Yeah. They come up here and we'd like to shake hands and please take a pin of one of the two if you would like one. You can have one for sure. Good job. Congratulations. Good job. Good job. Nice job. Good job. Now, let's get a picture of them. Sponsors, too. Act like we know each other. Yeah. You students move up a little bit there. Randy Got it. Almost got away. Good job, guys. So close. Okay. On item E3, the building presentation, the Gard Walker Elementary School. David Loach, principal. Yeah, I'm David, principal at Gertude Walker, and I've got several of our Gertude Walker student council members with me that are going to do a presentation on Gertude Walker and share a little bit of what we do
015there. and they will introduce themselves and then give a little presentation. Okay. Go ahead. My name is Via Cora Moy and I serve as the Gertude Walker Student Council President. My name is Iliana Martin and I serve as the Gertie Walker Student Council treasurer. My name is Chris Nyell Andrew and I serve as the Gertie Walker student council publicist. My name is Ariana and I serve as the student council representative. Our school mission, a model learning environment preparing lifelong learners to become exempl exemplary citizens. Our vision striving to become the top elementary school in Garden City, Kansas. At Gerie Walker, we have 187 students, two sections of kindergarten through third grade, and one section of fourth grade. We are 85% free and reduced lunch and have nine different languages represented at our school including English,
016ver remuse, creole or ramlhinga, somali, Spanish, taringa and tren. At Griid Walker, home of the dolphins, we practice making waves. Wise decisions. A ambitious, B value and others. E encourage and S self s self s self s self s self s self s self s self s self s self s self-reliations in each area of the building for us to learn and follow such as walking through the hall at a voice level zero encouraging others when they are down and trying things first before we ask for help when students are caught making waves they can receive a wave slip one way slip is for individual students making ways and other is for when the whole classroom is making waves. Classrooms can earn a pizza party if they earn enough classroom waves. And we draw ways
017every Friday for an office prize. At Gurgy Walker, we have restorative practices. Tier one are classroom circles where each week classrooms build relationships and solve problems. Tier two is for classroom teachers to lead small groups of students through solving conflicts and for reducing discipline. Tier three is for addressing major conflicts and restoring relationships with students, teachers and families. When we make mistakes, we are asked to take ownership, make amends and repair relationship. That restorative practices have greatly understood the us to focus more on academics more and more each year since 2022 school year. This year we all started writing our own academic goals and charting our progress each week. We all met our when we met our goal, we write a new one. We and we also get to put our pictures up on the
018board when we are making progress towards our classroom goals. Our goal is to reach 80% typical to aggressive growth in each classroom. Ways our school involves families and communities including family learning nights, family picnics, and family meals. fundraising for soccer goals that that are used by our school and community family, participating in homecoming parade, and raising money for the Salvation Army during the Red Kettle Challenge. Thank you for the opportunity to share about our school. Have a great day, Dolphins. Any questions for us? Great job, guys. Thank you. I I don't have a question. I just have a comment. I went to the board faculty meeting over there a couple months ago and uh really enjoyed that. The excitement you guys have in your school in the morning and and uh I thought that was
019great. So, I sure appreciate you guys just being energetic students and excited to learn. I appreciate you guys presenting for us. We appreciate you. Yeah, you guys want to pick you guys in gonna be on the front row in front of you. That's perfect. One, two, three. Okay. Item F, the consent agenda. Mr. President, I move to approve all consent agenda items as amended. Move and seconded to approve. Approve the consent agenda as as listed. Any discussion? All in favor, raise your hand. Opposed. Same sign. Motion carries. Item G, unfinished business. Uh, G1 Growwell Clinic CFO Jessica. All right. As you guys remember, um, we're actually looking for action taken on the Growwell. Um, it would be my recommendation to move forward with both the master service agreement and the mental wellness component as well.
020Um, again, after just betting it out different ways, I just think it's a very good um opportunity to to add a a rich benefit for our staff and their dependents that are on our health plan. Um, I've done the math several different ways and just feel comfortable um with where our health reserve fund is um and can answer any questions you guys might have. It was the three-year contract, right? Correct. Yep. Yep. And we'll be um upon approval, if you choose to approve, we'll be moving all of our DOT physicals. We'll um do our EAP. We'll move that mental health component over. Um we'll we'll take our work comp there for everything that they can do there. Um and Growwell has been in contact with all the building principles. um set up times if it
021if it is in fact improved tonight. They'll be going out to each individual building and kind of uh giving them a promotion about what what services they offer and when they'll start seeing client clients. So we move a second to approve the row of same motion carries. Thank you. Item G2, the YMCA dome discussion. T H R O or uh not move forward with proposal from the YMCA on the purchase of the of the YMCA. If you have any questions, I'm going to direct them all towards Jim. A couple of things, maybe I can limit questions um by maybe answering a few. So, um the things that you have in front of you are the facilities use agreement, which is also part of this negotiation that we've done um towards uh the sale of the
022dome from the YMCA to the school district. So, you have two agreements that you're signing um as part of this deal. um you are spending um $100,000 to purchase the the dome um and become full owners. The YMCA's board has already passed this and they have already signed both agreements. Um it does give the control of all aspects of use to USD457 for any use that we may want to use the dome for, which is not exactly as our agreement was laid out previously. Um, and it also limits our exposure to anything that the Y did or contracted as part of uh the Y prior to us taking it over. So, we would be starting fresh on our own terms. So, happy to answer any questions about anything that's in the agreement um or in
023the facilities use agreement as well. So Jennifer, any agreements the Y has entered into, whether it be a maintenance agreement, whatever kind of agreement, this would protect us from that. Exactly. We have a they would still be responsible for whatever they did. Exactly. So, anything that they purchased relative to it, um any agreements that they entered relative to it, uh including use or like you said maintenance or um I can't think of any others off the top of my head, but anything related to the dome that they signed a contract for that they were responsible for, they're still responsible for. And we're only responsible moving forward for anything that we sign up for, anything that we agree to. And then obviously making the payment for this purchase and for taking it over, we're responsible for
024that. Um property taxes Um, so that's okay. Um, so property taxes are different and you don't contract to pay property taxes. Property taxes run with the land or in this case the tarp. Um, because we own the land where the dome sits is owned by the school district. And so the property taxes related to the land have always been our responsibility and we are tax exempt. And so we don't pay property tax for that land or for the concrete or for the um footers that are part of the concrete. We don't pay any of that. Um however, yes, the school district could be responsible under this purchase agreement for taxes related to the structure. Um, but you could also become responsible under the current agreement that you're under. Should the why not choose to take
025it down under that agreement and should they choose to leave it up, you could also become responsible in that situation. Obviously, um, that's a whole other conversation, an entirely different um, thing not related to this agreement or other agreement. I think both of those land you in the same situation. Get a copy of the final step and I can't get the Yeah. Um, well, I have the signed copies here and we can definitely make copies of them if you guys want to see them. It was my understanding that you guys had seen them. You guys can also receive copies and you can move it to another meeting if you want to do that. Um, you're welcome to, whatever you prefer. I don't I don't think it needs to move to another meeting. changed from last
026I I have seen them. So same one that we got like a month agoish. The ones that I dropped. So the agreements that I worked out with um Terry Darden who is the board president for YMCA, there's been no changes made to either of those agreements. That was not like last month. Those were dropped by me. So we need to move with a motion if somebody wants to make Mr. President, I move to approve the sale agreement and the facilities use agreement as present. I'll second. It's been moved and seconded to approve the purchase of the YC dome. Is there any further discussion? All in favor raise your hand. Those same motion carries. Thank you. Item H, new business. H1 board please. The board of education is asked to consider and approve a quote from
027creative floors to sand seal paint lines and lettering and finish on gym floors at Florence Wilson Elementary School in the amount of $30,541. Director of plant facilities Brandon Anderson. So, the next two items will be um related to this uh having creative floors back down uh to work on these two floors. They'll also be redoing a floor at um Kenneth Henderson while they're here, one that didn't meet our standards. And so, they will be redoing that floor as well. Uh we do just have the quotes from creative floors. My understanding is it's it's difficult to get on schedules for companies that come and refinish gym floors. Uh and and the my experience in west western Kansas is too. It's it's harder to find these these types of individuals that can get into their cycle. So
028these quotes because they see $20,000 uh are presented to y'all tonight. Um the first one is Dave Hubert, correct? Wilson, sorry for 25,485. The next item will be the There's they're listed as two separate items on the agenda that I had, but they're in the agenda item. It has both of them listed. The quotes though are in different items. So, um, whichever one y'all have first on yours, I'll entertain questions for that one. A hub is 30,541 and Florence Wilson is 25,485 dollar. Have they learned a little bit from why they have to come back with? They've done us a good job on all the other floors that we we've we've used them quite a bit. um they just didn't have a good experience with Kenneth Henderson. So, they're gonna get to practice again on
029that one. Um but they're they're doing that on their Okay. I can explain a little on what happened after KH4 when they did the KH4. That was years two years ago now or last summer. Yeah. Um they had to use there's a there's a specific paint that you use on floors on gym floors they use covered because of the moisture coming out of the floors. Uh when they did that floor they had to use local paint which should have worked but uh they got that paint out of um from one of the local people here in town. They acknowledged it right away that that when it started shipping, they acknowledged it right away. They were going to come out and repaint. So, it was pretty immediate. We've worked well with them in the past. We've
030used these guys for a number of years. It worked well. It was just getting that that specific paint color. um they they tried to go local with it and they should one other item I might mention too is this particular group is also one that we reached out to and you may have heard some of the flooring that we put into some of the gyms the elementary doesn't have basketball floor markings on them. Um, and they are actually, we've asked the principles at those schools whether or not they want those those courts marked or not. And they they have found a paint that aderes well to that product and they're going to be painting the ones that have said they wanted paint. So, like Drew said, we we've worked with them quite a bit. They
031they've been a good partner, but no, that one wasn't good, but they they quickly realized that it was their fault. or will be on the consent agenda next. It can be on the consent agenda next time, that's fine. Um, these are just summer projects. We are on their schedule. Um, and and if we decide not to do it that we wouldn't be on their schedule, but certainly not that big a rush, you can wait till the end of the month. Any other questions? We do just every summer are we doing gym floors somewhere or is this just how long they last? I guess usually somewhere we'll we'll do a a floor resurface of one of the gym floors and maybe not. I don't know how many of those ones that we've replaced with non wood
032floors used to be wood. Maybe that that would go down. But I'm going to say every 5 to 10 years probably need work. Yeah. some of the higher use scores more than that. We'll get about 10 years out of a wood floor before you have to strip it down and repaint it. Generally, how long how long ours last. We get, especially at the elementaryaries, a lot of kids are using normal shoes on those elementary floors and so that's a lot of wear and tear. Um, Brandon and his crew, they do most of the refinishing work. So, we do most of the refinishing work in in house when we can. So, we do save significantly because every summer. We're not paying somebody to come in and do the refinish work for us. He's got a crew
033that does a good job of doing that. But the the sand downs, it's normal about once every 10 years. Those floors, depending on the thickness, you can get in like our our high school floor is a really nice floor. So, we get probably 60 years out of that four of it. The Lawrence Wilson floor is actually Item H3, the board of education has asked to consider and approve the following curriculum council items. Deputy Superintendent Josh Gman. and the associate principal at the high school with Dr. Virginia Duncan. I'm going to let Dr. Duncan kind of talk. Um she and I have been visiting. Um one of the things that we've talked about is I feel like um we're we're in front of you all about once a month to talk about classes that we want
034to do dual credits for and things like that. And so I think she's kind of come up with a plan. So I'm going to kind of share let her share that so that maybe we won't have to be bugging you all as much moving forward. So, um, our I won't take credit for this plan because our counselors came up with it. Um, so this year we did feel like we were frequently in front of you all trying to seek approval for classes and um, it became a little overwhelming I think for everybody. Uh, we would like to create a clearer process to streamline those classes and what we're offering as dual credit, high school dual credit classes with in partnership with college. So, what I passed out to you is the Kansas Board of Regents
035buckets, which are classes that if they take at Garden City Community College or any um Kansas University will transfer. So, we thought that that would be a high priority to make sure that we're offering those classes for students to take as dual credit. And then in addition to that, we have our CTE pathways that are copied on the back for you also. So, we went through and identified anything that we were missing that was um either cable or CTE pathways and those items, those classes are the list that you have in front of you. Those are the only things that were missing to complete those cable buckets and the CTE pathways. So, we would offer dual credit for um moving forward. We would kind of condense anything that um it it's not just a free-for-all.
036any student can take any class and get dual credit for it. It would be anything that um like if we're going to create a new course and offer a new course, it would be related directly back to the cable buckets or to CTE pathways. We were not going to eliminate anything that's already approved. So, if there's something that's already been you students can still take that. Um the other thing of note is that if students wanted to take classes, they still can. We just wouldn't offer dual credit for it if it's not if it's something that's not on the cable or CD pathways. Perfect. Thanks. So, the list of courses that we have um that we're requesting approval for would be the courses that would finish out that list that Dr. just and then the
037only thing I'm going to bring before you other than that in following years would be if um or if the college changed the name and we need to change the name to adjust that mapping, we do that also. So, but it would kind of clean up the process for what we offer as dual credit and it would set students up for success to make sure that they can transfer their credits. We spoken to the community college about this. I mean, are they aware that? Um, well, we have our agreement with the community college and basically the agreement says that we can choose which things that we're going to offer as dual credit or not. So, the agreement between us just says that we can't offer dual credit. That was, you answered my question. I was
038going to be are they going to be like, "No, you can't do that." Or, yep, we looked over the agreement to make sure that we were going to be in bounds. Maybe it varies course to course, but how are these taught? Um, some of them are taught it. It's it's a whole mixture. Some of them do online provided through the college. Some of them do um they go in person. Um, so it's it's a mixture depending on what it is. You say in to the college to take sometimes. Yeah, because we do have our US history teacher that comes that comes in and teaches the college class in the morning. Uh, so sometimes we have when available a teacher that comes, sometimes they go there and then sometimes it's an online course through the college
039and we have an on-site proctor. Depends on what class it is. Yeah. Okay. You foresee in the future more like issues with classes transferring? I don't believe so. I mean, each university kind of has its own way of like deciding which classes transfer, but what we like about the kore list is that those are classes that all Kansas universities agree that they will transfer. You think that in the future or I haven't heard anything like that, so I don't believe so. Yeah. questions agenda the next meeting. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Item H3K. Uh that's H4 teacher apprentice program. Chief human resource officer Drew Okay. Um, again, Drew Tone, uh, chief HR officer, but, uh, tonight I brought with me Leanne Tone. Uh, Leanne is the HR coordinator. No relation. Um, her family is from
040Michigan. Not her family. Her husband's family was, uh, from Michigan, but the only other tone I know. So, um, anyway, what we wanted to come, uh, in front of you guys tonight is asking for approval of the teacher apprentice program. Um, I'm going to let Leanne kind of lead the, um, the presentation. But what the teacher apprentice program is is, uh, a couple years back, the state of Kansas expanded the apprenticeships uh, that they're able to offer in the state of Kansas to teachers. We uh in our district, we kind of dragged our feet just wanting to know what it was actually going to look like before we uh went ahead and adopted the teacher apprentice program. We have every other pathway to to become a teacher. Uh after a year of watching how the
041apprentice program worked in the state of Kansas, uh we finally made the decision. This is something we want to go ahead and move forward and ask your permission uh to do. So Lan, I'm going to let you talk and I'll I'll run you get the slides. Um so the apprentice program um is designed by KSTE. There are a lot of stipulations that they have for us if we're going to implement this, but part of it is defining what an apprentice teacher is. So they're someone who is going to work alongside a highly effective mentor teacher. They're going to get on the job training um and we're going to grow them from the ground up. So, they might be somebody with some classroom experience. They might be somebody who just graduated high school, but they're going
042to be learning alongside someone um through their through their four years in the program at most, depending on where they're at when they get started. Um so, they're not going to be the teacher of record. They're still going to work alongside somebody else. Um they're going to be employed by us full-time. Um and another stipulation is that they have to be able to enroll in teacher prep program. They can choose whichever one they want, but they have to be um enrolled in one of those. Um and then they're going to attend some professional development. Um we're going to put them on the same teacher contract that we would any other teacher so that they can get that extra on the job training as well. So why why do we want to uh implement a teacher
043apprentice program? Um obviously staffing shortages. We're coming up with every kind of creative way we can to get teachers in the classroom. Um, and growing our own seems to be one of the most effective that that we've found. We go to career fairs. We do all these other things, but growing our own is has proven to be the most effective. Um, so we also want to retain our staff. So, these are going to be paras. Um, they're going to be a lot of people maybe we've already hired and then we'll continue to keep them on. um they're going to also get that hands-on prep. So, they're never going to be a first year teacher. They're going to go through that training. Um and their first year is actually going to be potentially their fifth year
044um in a classroom. Um we'll also grow our mentor teachers. They're going to continue to develop that capacity as leaders as well, which aligns with our everyone leads. So, they're going to earn while they learn. We like that saying. so they can they can make money while they're they're learning in the classroom um and learning through their college courses. Um going to college is really expensive. So they're going to get some some funding from KSD to help pay for their tuition, their books, their fees. Um and we'll also get some funding in this and I'll talk about that a little bit later for our mentor teachers. Um that one-on-one mentorship is really going to help as well. We we have a mentor program. We're bulking that up as well for all of our new teachers.
045But getting that on the job training for any job, no matter where you're at, is going to definitely help build them and make them the best teachers that they can be. Um, and then that seamless transition. So, they actually will not have their traditional student teaching semester like they would normally. Um, that's going to be just all rolled into this whole program. Um, so the four the four biggest parts of the program is their coursework. So, they have to be enrolled in in classes. It's going to be pretty rigorous. If they are just starting from the ground, Warriors is um it's pretty quick. They're going to have to be full-time in college classes. Um but that's part of it. The mentorship is another big piece. We will pay um our mentors or our guiding teachers
046um to help really give them that time and that effort as well. Um the tiered classroom experience is another big part of it. So, we will assess where they're at every semester and give them goals. They're going to, you know, as time goes on, they're going to take over. They're going to create some lessons. They're going to uh they're going to teach some more lessons. They're going to grade some some papers. And as time goes on, that's just going to roll into being the person leading the class. Um, and then the professional de development piece is also really important. We don't want them to miss out on anything that they would otherwise, you know, not have. they're going to go to all those same teacher teacher and service days with their mentor teacher. So, who
047can apply this? Um, we will open it internally. We're also required to open it externally. We might find some great candidates that way as well. Um, they have to complete the application through KSD, which we have a portion of it and they will have a portion of it. So, we'll do that together. They have to be enrolled or able to enroll in a teacher program. I've said that. Um, and then there we're going to ask that they commit to us for two years once they've completed the program. Um, we we'll have to keep the application up for two weeks. That's just a KSD requirement. Um, we do have to get those applications to KSD by June 1st. So, it's going to be a little bit of a quick turnaround, but we're going to be able
048to get those teachers in um or apprentices in, interview them, and and find out who's going to be the best to start in the fall. Um, so we'll be in on interviews. Drew or myself will be in on those and then whichever principal um so that we can we can definitely find who is going to be the most committed to the program and then of course we'll we'll get reference checks or we'll have admin recommendations if they're current current staff members. Uh so the starting wage for this um we have uh put them in a grade 13. This is going to be uh a wage where they because they're going to have some responsibilities. That's kind of where we've placed that. Um, KSD had a minimum and we also have to give them some progression
049over time because we are asking them to take over the classroom and those classroom responsibilities. Um, every year they'll have a minimum pay pay raise. I mean, very similar to how our our staff gets a a step raise every year. Um, they'll get the same benefits and time off that any other classified staff member would have. They'll be on teacher contract which is 181 and a half days. Um we'll provide them opportunities to work in the summer. That's another KSC requirement. Um so the tuition funds from KSD will go to um will go to the student um to the apprentice. They'll also provide that money for a guiding teacher stipen um and give us some administrative costs as well because there's a lot of work that goes into all of these things to get it
050started and then to keep up with it um to meet with them all that good stuff. Um and then we actually we can use uh sped funds for those those apprentices that are working with sped students. If they're in a in a general education program, they we won't be able to do that. But if they're going through a sped program, we can use spend funds for that as well. So, what their responsibility is going to be is they're going to secure their hiring with us um and then complete all of the paperwork for KSD. Um they've got to be enrolled, they got to fill out the FAFSA, and they've got to apply for for scholarships and other financial aid that they may be eligible for. Um and then they just have to give us their
051degree par degree plan as well. Um our guiding teacher is going to do um sort of what our mentor teachers do, but they will uh work even closer with that apprentice. Um so they're going to be somebody that's recommended by our admin. They're going to be highly effective. Um and they're going to work really hard to model those lessons so that apprentice can see exactly what a good lesson looks like. They're also going to provide that feedback to the apprentice um and help meet with them and their admin to create those goals and and plan the next goals. So, our principles again, they're going to meet with everybody. They're going to help facilitate that goal goal creating. Um there's a rubric that they'll follow to make sure they're meeting that. Um and they do need
052to meet every semester to update those. And then we will also in our office, we're going to assess the apprentice's experience. So KSE has provided us some really good guidelines for, you know, if somebody has 10 years of par experience, we're not going to put them right there at that base. They're they're going to have had some classroom experience. So we'll kind of look at that and see maybe where they fall in that. It shouldn't be any more than four years, but they might fall somewhere in there depending on where they're at with classes and and experience. Um, so what we are proposing is that we open five teacher apprentice positions for the fall or for for the next school year. Um, we decided five would be a good number so that we could commit
053the time to this. We really want to grow these teachers. We don't want to go crazy. I mean, obviously we would love to hire 30 apprentices, but we've got to have the funds and the time to make sure that we are creating the best teachers that we possibly can. Um, and to help support that, we're we're looking at um five pair positions that haven't been filled in a while that are no longer needed. Um, and then yeah, obviously we're going to find the most qualified candidates um and get those um applications to KST by June 1st. So the the biggest thing that I would say with this apprentice program, uh, most of you guys work in business or run a business. What the overall goal is is number one, we're going to identify people either
054coming out of high school or that currently work for us or out in the community that want to become teachers. We have a financial avenue that we can help them become teachers without uh investing a significant amount of money. On the other end of it, us as a district for a long time, we've hired long-term subs and they've gone through a program and eventually become teachers. we've hired in uh T2T transition to teach people that have a bachelor's degree and they go through a program. The big difference and and kind of why we held off and we wanted to see how this worked. The way this really truly works is you find your best teacher and in the district you find five of your best teachers and you go and you find five people that
055you think are going to be really great teachers and you embed them in that classroom with that teacher and that teacher actually teaches them how to be great teachers. A lot of the stuff that we do to be frank uh we do most everything online nowadays and that's not a great teaching experience. That's not a great way to learn how to teach. you can read the book and you can do the homework and and go through those processes, but the thing that they miss out on is a lot of those experiences that you gain at a physical teaching school. So, you don't they're not getting those experiences online. What this does is it takes a a K state or an Emporia state or a FOH state where you are getting those classroom experiences, but it
056magnifies that even greater because you're doing it every single day for eight hours a day with the best possible teacher that we can find inside the district. Again, this is uh no additional cost for the district. Uh we're a one for one vacating a PAR position in order to to fill this teacher apprentice position. But the thing I will caution you, this is not a parent. That's not what we're doing with this. This is somebody in the classroom that is being taught by our best teachers on how to be one of our best teachers. Question. Is there a So, they get paired up with a mentor teacher. Yeah. A guiding teacher. Teacher. Is there going to be some kind of long-term commitment from the guiding teacher to be there? You said this was a four-year
057kind of program. Yes, at the most it'll be four years just depending on what kind of experience and education they get started. Okay. I just know sometimes having the mentor consistent is a good thing and help them which will come into play I think with the administrator's recommendation. I mean, they're going to know who who is going to be the most committed person. Um, I mean, obviously, ideally, they're going to stick with that safe person for the full four years and there there will be financial incentives for them as that guiding teacher. I do agree 100%. It's very effective. Get them into the classroom sooner. Yeah, that's one of the It's one of the biggest things that we've seen. You know, we we count our lucky stars every single day for every long-term sub that
058became a teacher and everybody that's gone through a non-traditional pathway. But the the biggest problem that we've seen is their first year teaching is their first year teaching. They very likely struggled in year where teachers are not. Yeah. A lot of these teachers are are probably going to end up staying in the same building. They won't stay in the same classroom because that veteran teacher will continue in that classroom, but they probably will still stay in the same building and and fill a vacancy somewhere else in that building. And what we're doing is we're putting people in place that we know fit our culture. They fit our values. They fit what we're trying to because they've been with us for anywhere from two to four years. We'll get, you know, Lean and I were talking,
059we'll get some high school kids apply for this. They may only have two years left to complete their program. They may be almost through their associates degree and only have a couple years left to to complete their program. So, they still may come in mid-tier. Um, I think of some of our Lyft students. I think of some of our kids that are going through our education program. Some of those students probably will come in, you know, either year one or year two of that tier and then get in and they may only get two years of that of that teaching experience with that um guiding teacher as opposed to four years with somebody that doesn't have enough college credits to be to be placed mid-tier. You guys are comfortable with Sorry, I got a lot
060of questions, guys. uh you guys are comfortable with staffing internally and the the admin side to manage this and organize this and are we gonna have to hire anybody else to No, that's why we're starting with five. Um yeah, I mean the there is anything that you do with the state of Kansas, there's going to be a lot of paperwork associated with those things. Um and so we're afraid if if we go and try to do 15, uh we won't be able to handle not just us but at the building level. We want to make sure that these five are are getting all the attention that they need to get that they're getting the experience they need to get. As things progress and we um create systems and and put systems in place and checks
061and balances in place, yeah, we're going to ask to eventually ramp up the program. Um but at this point, that's why we're limiting it to five is because we want to be able to know that we can handle the workload. Do you think that's five is for one year and then maybe next year if it's going well add two or three more and then maybe eventually get up to that 10 or 15 number. That would be our help. Yeah. And strategically place them in buildings so that one principal isn't overwhelmed by several. The principles love the idea because they want to grow it grow people internally and and know that they're not going to have to go and find they've got somebody waiting in that pipeline. You know, a year from now, I know I
062have that person that's that's going to graduate the program and be ready to go and I don't have to fill anybody this year. And a big piece is that reimbursement for tuition because I I do think a lot of our principles have people they've identified as, you know, could be really great teachers, but that person just really doesn't have the means to make it happen. So that'll be a really big piece, too. Yeah. And this will be elementary and secondary or Yes. They just have to be in a program. So they they can be in an online secondary program, an online elementary program. We track their grades when they when they sign this commitment. They're also signing a commitment to allow us uh to have grade reports on them every semester so that we know
063they're academically keeping up uh where they need to be. Uh and in speaking with a couple other districts that have done this, uh it's not very often, but there's been times that they've had to drop uh people from the program because academically they haven't kept up with their coursework. And it is really us. I mean, trying to to keep up with a full load of course work. And that's, to be honest with you, one of the things that scared us off at first was the idea they're going to keep have to keep up with 12 hours of course work and be a full-time employee for us. We have to find a way to make that make that balance work. Who did you speak to that who else is doing this? So, Dodge is doing 15
064and and when we talked to Dodge, that was one of their big hesitations. They were like, "We shouldn't have started so big. We should have started a lot smaller. And then they're also one of the ones that we spoke to that had a couple kids that struggled with some course work. Is there a maximum length of time like students have to complete this? No. Five years. Four. Four years. Is it a four year? Yes. Motion tonight. Yeah, we are we are asking uh we are asking for a motion uh tonight for approval. Again, this will be budget neutral. So, there's uh there's additional funding that will come from the state, but from our from our department. Uh it'll be pretty well budget neutral. Just swinging uh swapping pair of positions for teacher appren positions. If
065you're ready for a motion, I'll make the motion. I move to approve the teacher apprentice program as presented. I'll second it. It's been moved and seconded to approve the TAP program. Is there any discussion? All in favor, raise your hand. Opposed? Same. Motion carries. We'll come up uh we'll come back a year from now and give you guys an update. Hopefully a year from now, we'll have a lot of success stories and be able to update you guys on how it went. Thank you guys. Thank you. Thanks. Okay. Item H5, the key plan. Deputy Superintendent Josh Gman and Director of Instruction Heather St. So, while he's bringing up our our PowerPoint, um just real quickly, I'll kind of go over we're going to kind of talk a little bit about um how Keith has kind
066of evolved um over the over the over the last year or so. Um when we when we went down the KISS 1.0 no um path. It was very long. It was very cumbersome. It was like a 50 some page document. There was a lot of work by a lot of individuals. Um KSD has really wanted to kind of refine that and make it very very simple. And instead of uh instead of doing this huge document that and you go through the accreditation cycle every five years, now it's a much more simpler simplified plan, but we we go through accreditation every year. And so this is the first year um where we will do KISSA 2.0. know and so uh just so you so you all kind of understand that and I'm Heather has been um
067Heather volunteered to be a KISSA facilitator for the state and so she's kind of gone to all the training and we kind of did that intentionally with with the hope that a she would be able to to support other districts but b more importantly support our district as she kind of knows what's going to be expected when we we have to move through these steps and so um she's really kind of our kisa expert so I'm going to kind of turn it over to her and let you all through the through the process. Don't know. Are any of you familiar with what KISSA is? We're using acronyms. Oh, yeah. Sorry. Um KISSA is the Kansas Education Supports um system. Sorry. Kansas Education Systems Accreditation. So, it's the the system by which we get accredited as
068a um school in the state of Kansas. Okay. Um, so go ahead and lift. The state of Kansas gives us some guidelines and recommendations of who should be on our um, district leadership team. Um, but they limited us to 10 members because we will get together with other school systems and we are limited by space. So, we can't show up with 50 people. Dodge City has 50. Liberal has 50 and um, Junction City. Yeah, Junction City. Giri County has 50. It just is not possible. So they want 10 per system. Um and they refer to districts as systems in ina. So this was our DT team that worked on this plan and put it together over the past year. Um one of the first things they ask us to do is dive into our data.
069and they do give us a list of questions that we should be looking for answers um to those questions within our data that that our district has. That's fast brbridge CAP data, but also you know what information are we getting from teachers about what's happening in their classrooms. So at the conclusion of that um at that data dive, we came to the conclusion that our student cap and fastbridge scores are consistently low. We've reported that to you guys multiple times. we that's been something that's been ongoing. Um, but our teachers are also concerned that our current ELA instructional materials are not fully aligned to state standards or the science of reading, especially our elementary program. We have been plugging holes in benchmark because it's a balanced literacy approach. We know that's not the right way
070to teach kids to read. Um, so as we are coming to our seven-year cycle for textbook adoption for English language arts, this is something we're really wanting to address. Um, and also our teachers have stated that they need highquality engaging resources that address reading, writing, speaking, and listening. I know we get a lot of feedback that our current resources do not have our kids write frequently enough. They need a lot more writing and writing support. So you know taking all that information we then went to the kisa model which is actually this page that I shared with you. So the first column on the left hand side are the fundamentals and the state of Kansas feels like if those four things are in place we are confident that kids will get a quality education at
071any system in the state. So our focus is to do these four things and do them really well. So looking at our data, we then reflected on these four fundamentals and thought you know where is our gap that we need to fill and we focused on highquality instruction at the bottom. Um in particular those highquality instructional materials. Um when you finish identifying your fundamental we then go into the next column which is structures and those are the teacher or adult I'm sorry adult actions that support those fundamentals. So when we talk about quality instruction are we allocating resources to quality instruction? Are we um giving teachers feedback and evaluations that improve their in quality instruction? Um are we providing PD and professional learning that improves the quality of our instruction? So we go through all
072six of those in that way and we focused on resource allocation because in the next year we're going to be spending a large chunk of money to improve those instructional materials. Um and we outlined our process for ELA textbook adoption as our piece of plan for the next year. Um those lead indicators are actually just examples that the state gave us um that would give us guidance if we wanted to follow them, but we don't have to follow those. So our actual action plan is on the next slide and this is the actions that we will be working to achieve over the next year. Um so we're going to as a curriculum review committee will be formed and trained in 2025. We've already achieved that. Um the committee will consist of a variety of stakeholders.
073So we have teachers, principles, instructional coaches, we have parent representatives and board members. So we feel like we have um a wide variety of stakeholders there. Um the committee will analyze and select rigorous ELA highquality instructional materials. and we've started that process on April 21st with our first um meeting of our ELA curriculum committee. Um then we are looking for materials that align to the science of reading and we're going to present that to the board of education in February of 26. That's kind of our deadline to complete that. Um and then purchase those in the spring so materials are in teachers hands um by the summer. Um the date the dates along the bottom are just milestones that we had in that timeline that we presented a couple months ago. Um April 2025 was
074our first meeting of the ELA curriculum committee. um by the end or I'm sorry, yeah, by the end of October 2025, we would like that committee to be coming to consensus about which materials we want to purchase, but we did give until December in case there's um not cons consensus yet. We're giving ourselves a couple months to come to consensus and present their selection to the leadership team. So that would be um Josh Gimman um Jessica and Drew and Steve. Um and then they will approve that so that we can take it on to the board by February of 26 for board approval. So those are kind of those important deadlines along the way. Um the state does ask us to set a milestone for six months and one year so that we can kind
075of keep track of are we making progress to achieve this in time. So our sixmonth target was to have um those curriculum options narrowed to three which we've already achieved that we're already there. Um we've selected um Hootin Mifflin's into reading which is the elementary version, high school version is into literature. Um SAVIS my view is the elementary version and my perspectives is the secondary version. Um and then CKLA amplify is our elementary and through grade eight curriculum um option. And then next one, we also are supposed to project what we think we will want to do the following year. So once we select those high quality instructional materials, we're going to shift to then focusing um on the structure of professional development because teachers are going to need a lot of professional learning and
076professional development and how to use those materials effectively. Um ideally we would like to start that professional development in April because we have an April professional development day and that would give teachers kind of a head start um before they enter the summer. But for sure, the August back to school PD will um have a lot to do with ELA curriculum. And then throughout the school year, we'll meet during um PLC's and district PD days to refine our practices and how we're using those materials. That's it. You guys have any questions for me? So, I I would say a couple of other things. One of the things that uh a really big piece to this uh before we bring this to you all for for your approval um is that we need to make sure
077that we're getting stakeholder stakeholders involved. And so um as we went through this plan and we kind of refined it at our our um our kisa day that we had in sublet in April March March 6th. Yeah. in March. Um, we brought that back and we shared it with all of the administrators at SAC and kind of went through through all that and then the administrators took that back to their building, shared it with their DT and with their site council so that um, we could get all stakeholders involved. And we actually had our last our last site council meeting was today at 8:30. And so um, you all are the last piece and and then with your approval we'll we'll submit tomorrow our plan to the state. And actually this document is what we
078kind of summarized and provided the principles to share with stakeholders. Um it's basically a summary of the PowerPoint that we just shared. Questions? Does this have anything to I know with letters training we're still doing that will continue. Yes. I'm just I mean I know we have to change curriculum but putting a lot of load on the teachers all at once you know. Yeah. So letters is letters is like the um um is the is the the science of reading. It's the and so the the curriculum will be the material that we use to to teach um using the philosophy of letters basically would be what that would look like. And so, um, our district, we have a we have a policy where we go through and we we update curriculum every seven years. And
079so, ELA just happened to fall, which is good timing because we're we're in need of updating our just like Heather said, our our curriculum doesn't really meet the science of reading in a lot of areas. And so, that's why we've had to go with you and Hagerty and do all of those other things was to try to plug some of the holes that we were missing through the curriculum that we selected because when we selected that, we were still doing a balanced literacy approach. And so, and most of our teachers will have completed letters training by the end of this year. So, we feel like um, you know, going into the next year, especially the people that are on that ELA adoption committee, we wanted people that had been in letters training because they know
080what to look for in those curriculum materials so that we can have the right tools in teachers hands that's going to make them more effective and make it um, less difficult for them to meet kids' needs. I know one thing we hear from teachers a lot is there's not like intervention or tier 2 and tier three supports in our current curriculum resources. And all three of of the curriculums we're currently looking at have much stronger supports. So they'll have materials for teachers to support kids who are not um doing a learning it easily, you know, or needing that extra support. Mike, I have a question not not about the uh the plan, but in the curriculum adoption and the work you guys and the committee have done so far, what resources have you been using
081to evaluate where you've narrowed it down to their how strongly they align with the science of reading? So, we've used a lot of thirdparty review sites. Um, I mean, there are companies that are paid, that's their full-time job is to dive into all of those different aspects and give you impartial feedback on how those curriculums um, meet those components. So, like ED reports for example, I think we have all gone to ed reports um, as educational systems and looked and said, "Oh, it's green." But the state's been training us to really get in and dive more closely because if you get into the reports, it'll tell you all these different components how those curriculums are meeting that or not. Um, so for the curriculums we've chosen, most of them are like four out of four
082or six out of six on almost all of those components, but there are a few that they are not as strong. So, um I believe it was SAVIS, the My View curriculum. One of their weak areas is it gives questions, but they're not progressively more complex. So, they may be the same level of complexity. That doesn't mean they're easy questions, but the Ed Reports is looking for them to go from easier to then more complex. And since they don't do that and it's pretty consistent that at every grade level they are not fully rated on that standard. That's something we need to consider. Is that a big thing for Garden City or is that not a deal breaker for us? And so we're, you know, diving into that. And there's a lot. I mean, I
083think there were there's three gateways and then under each of those gateways there's I think it went from like A to I and some of them from A to S. So there's a lot of different things they're breaking down and giving us detailed feedback on. And so we're really trying to use that as a starting point. Um I know uh the secondary representative that we had seventh and eighth grade from Kenneth Henderson, she's already gone back with her building because spent the day, you know, getting into those reports and identifying areas of weakness for each curriculum and they've already gone back to their building and started meeting as a department to talk about that and try to decide is this a deal breakaker for us or is this something we can address within our staff.
084So they've had some really good conversations already. if you guys can make a motion. Action. Yeah, if we could make the motion to approve of presentation second to move forward with the piece of plan as presented. Any discussion? All in favor raise your hand. Opposed to same. Motion carries. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Item H6. The board of education is asked to consider and approve the bid to replace the marquee sign in front of Buffalo Jones Elementary School sign plus in the amount of $24,100 to include installation. CFO Jessica Nal. Okay. Um during every year we do a district-wide furniture and equipment request process where um a certain amount of is allocated um for bigger purchases that they maybe the buildings can't necessarily afford out of their cost center. So, um this
085was really my first year to do the whole process and in doing so um two different schools had put new marquee signs um on the list. And so um the committee is me um a gal in my office and three principles. And in looking at this we started to look at the like in one hand they you kind of want to disperse the money evenly between buildings but then nobody ever gets a big purchase right. So, um I kind of wanted to like change the mindset to really use these funds for big big purchases. So, um Buffalo Jones had requested uh he had called me before the request came in and offered to allocate the rest of his cost center money plus his capital outlay money if we would do the balance out of furniture
086and equipment uh districtwide. So, in talking to the committee, we decided that um in looking at the different building signs that a lot of them are very outdated and this is like something that we need to start to invest in little by little so we don't have 18 signs that need done. So, in uh for Ben's sign uh it was we allocated 15,000 and that's what he had um that's what he needed to to be able to complete the purchase. And then the other one that we did, we used all the funds left over after we had kind of gone through the request and we had vetted out like who needs what, um, what are wants, what are needs, um, and what we kind of looked at the past two years of how much each
087building had got in the district-wide funds and decided to use the balance for KH. They KH had also put in a request that just said, "Give me what you can for a marquee sign." So, um, they are not looking to purchase one at this time. They want to wait until rollover and use some of next year's funds. Um, but we did allocate uh close to 14,000 that was left um with these budgeted funds for KH. So, that'll be the next one coming. Um, so this Ben uh got three different bids. This is the one he would like. He did coordinate with Brandon and his crew on whether they need to install it or whether our guys could install it, but it was decided that um it would be best if they installed it, use their
088warranty, all that. Um but Brandon is aware of what is needed as far as the line that needs ran and is good with that. So, it is recommended to go with signs plus bid for 241. You can take action tonight or you can wait. Um the quote is good for 30 days and came in on April 29th. So whatever you guys want to do. So the bid is 241 for the installation as well. Yep. That's all that that includes the installation, the warranty, um all of it. Thanks. Okay. Item I board open discussions. Andy, you're up. Um, not a whole lot tonight. I'd like to congratulate the students high school and their K. Great. Those students to got initiative and that end up receiving that award district was really really great. Um and then I
089also want to just thank uh the students from Gertie Walker for coming tonight. So yeah, I agree. And also I'd like to add uh what Mr. Bernin said about Julie. Um she she's amazing. She's touched so many lives in this community and that for so many years and it definitely deserves recognition uh for sure. Um know we're getting close to the end of the year. It's calendar is filling up with getting ready to be done. So looking forward to all of that. That's it. Bob. Um, it's always nice when the kids are here and to have such a different variety of things today to see, you know, the little ones and up to the bigger ones. Seeing that there's success all the way through, that's nice. Um, I heard some really great things from teachers
090about the is that the Monday after Easter and about the professional development that we did. really positive comments about that. So that that always makes us happy. And yeah, when when I get my emails from Jennifer, it's like, "Oh my gosh, there's another thing. There's another thing. You guys have a busy month. All I got uh forget what's already been said. Uh the Gertude Walker presentation. It's always nice to hear from our students. enjoy that the teacher apprentice program grow our own uh look forward to that hopefully that's a s successful program and uh we can continue on and add to that as the years go by here but really look forward to that you're up I um definitely agree like we've already said a lot of things have been said I appreciate everybody and
091the students coming and all that's going on. Um, excited about our accreditation, making sure we keep that up and that was a big thing when I was a teacher to be able to be a part of that. And so, I know it takes a lot of work. So, I appreciate the work you guys are doing to make that happen every year and that's going forward. Uh, it is exciting to see uh the creativity awards there from our students getting involved in that, getting some recognition of their hard work and getting involved in that. So, I very much appreciate that and uh that presentation as well. It's interesting to see the college um classes coming into our in our schools and stuff. So, my daughter's taking a dual credit class. So, I think it's just it's
092very different from when I was in and high school and whatnot. And just a little bit an interesting thing. Um but fun to see that happen as well. And uh this is, you know, teacher appreciation week. Tomorrow is teacher appreciation day nationally. And so, um, want to say a huge thanks to all of our teachers and our staff that are there on a day-to-day basis in the classrooms and the pairs that are right along with them. And so, um, uh, the board knows this, but we I have not got them all delivered yet, but every teacher and every staff member across the whole district will have an appreciation bag from us. So, I want to make sure if I've not gotten your building yet, I'm getting there. So, we'll have those out tomorrow. and uh
093the rest of those. Just I want to say huge thanks to everybody making this system work well for the best education for all of our kids. So yeah, um yeah, I just agree with all that. I would I would just like to say, you know, thank you to our staff and all of our teachers as well. I know we're to the end of the school year. Um, it's been a long year and we got a lot of extra activities and events in May and uh, I just want to thank them all for making those special for the kids and uh, finishing the year strong really don't much else being last. Um, but yeah, thanks to everybody and lots of things happening at the end of the year and Yes, the teacher appreciation week. Uh there's
094a lot of trust and love that goes out from the teachers to our students and community to community back to the the teachers. And there's a lot of capacity there, a lot of trust, a lot of capacity that actually makes the system go quicker. and um Drew, I appreciate Drew sticking with the teacher apprentice program because we need to be the mentors. We need to be uh the internships. So, this is a a good jumping off point and continue to grow our people and see talent uh identify the talent, put them with people that can mentor them and move them forward. And that just it's going to pay huge dividends for us. uh the keys of plan I think it's been articulated but it used to be a fiveyear accreditation you know every five years
095every five years now it's an annual accreditation so there's going to be a lot more touch points related to that and actually one of our own is going to be leading that um Dr. Nent will be the next uh academic person for the state. So that'll be good. Uh the science of reading will pay dividends. It is a lot of work. It's it's going to be work and we're not going to shy away from that. But it is going to be work. It's going to be better for our students. Uh a lot of the high school students clearly creativity and then our younger students um getting to show their articulation also. But balorate uh pastor heck is kind of leading the charge on that May 11th this Sunday at 3 pm at the high school
096auditorium. Also of course we do have our graduations and all uh coming forward. So a lot of things to celebrate in Park City public schools where everyone leads Adam J. The next board meeting of the board of education will take place on Monday, May 19th at 6 PM here in the board meeting room at the educational support center. Item K, executive session. Says 10 minutes. Mr. President, I move we go into executive session for 10 minutes to discuss negotiations to exception for employee employer employee negotiation beginning at 7:40 p.m. Second that move and seconded to move into executive session. Any dispatchment? All in favor raise your hand. Same. Motion cares.