001Call the objection. Board education meeting Monday, April 7th. Comments from patrons and guests. Um, yeah. Okay. Oh, up here. Yeah. Okay. Sorry, I never done this before. Okay. So, it's on the consent agenda, but we have our trip to journalism to Nashville for journalism. Hi, just got off. We'll be here if you have any questions. Perfect. Can I Ava Marorrow? Sorry. And Izzy Higgins. Izzy Higgins. Is this on the agenda? It is. Okay. You want to tell us just a little bit about your plans while you're there? Um, well, we're going to Nash or Well, we're wanting to go to Nashville and we're going to be going to a journalism conference. We were lucky enough to have it in Kansas City last year or well there was one in Boston but also one in Kansas
002City and we got to go to the Kansas City one. It was really fun and we got to learn about like journalism and like design aspects of it and just like writing stuff. It was just really cool and there was like a bunch of classes that we could go to. It was kind of like college like but it was really fun and we're hoping to go this year to Nashville. Mhm. Is that when Mrs. Sakus? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. It's going to be or well, we're planning on me, Ava, Harriet, um Dean, Harriet, Dean, Rowan Johnson, and Maddie Sage. And I think Hannah Meyer, right? About six of you. Yeah, I think. Or actually, wait, no, it might just be five. I think it's either five or six. Sage will be there. Yeah. and we're planning
003on fundraising stuff and we've already fund done one thing for fundraising which was a bake sale during a basketball game a while back and I think I don't know really remember how much money we raised but we're planning on raising more money if we do get to go and yeah I need our approval ticket I think I think so yes what would you do in your downtime while you're uh well we would eat good Yes, digital shopping. Yes. Yeah. Nobody's going to end up on Broadway. I don't I don't know about that one, but that's a that's not a no. Yes. Transportation to take them to the airport. Oh, wow. I think we each have to raise about $700. 750 for like the hotel and all the other like things that Yeah, for sure. Yeah.
004[Music] Yeah. Boston for journalism. Oh, yeah. Yeah. My apologies. I was just Do we read this? You don't need to interpret it there. Oh, for sure. Yeah. She might. Perfect. Well, wonderful. Yeah. I guess we'll hit it up here pretty quick. Yep. Thank you, girls. Yes. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Yes. Thank you. I need a motion to approve. Is that right? Nobody else. A motion to approve the A motion to approve the agenda as presented. Oh, the agenda. Never mind, I'll shut up. Second. All in favor? Six. Six of them. Motion to approve the consent agenda. Question. Yes. Can someone enlighten me when we discuss the football uniforms? I could not I don't remember it and I could not find it. It was in the consent. You mean the the new? Yeah,
005that we just bought. Oh, that's the rotation, isn't it? Yes. I think it was last month. Yeah. Okay. Every seven years. Well, I just didn't I didn't remember. Well, I saw that. We wouldn't if it was just ination, right? Good question. Just I was thinking the same thing. Uh motion to approve the consent agenda. I motion to approve. Second. All in favor? So just [Music] on that though just because uniform doesn't come up a lot. Football is the most expensive. Mhm. because you got one time to buy and they all match. You're talking over 50 uniform. So, and we don't buy like the military special ones and stuff like that. This is just the standard uniform. Correct. Yeah. I just want to make sure the middle school boys don't get forgotten in rotation because everybody
006got new uniforms this year. But then and they're middle school. middle school basketball. They probably got 10, 15 more years to go, but they've been there since I was in school. So, they're pretty bad. I should wear the silver ones. They're the only They're the only ones that didn't get any. I just want to make sure we don't forget Mac told me five years more and I don't know what I think it appears that way because outside and the only one that didn't paid for it this time was middle school boys did what do you mean high school the girls basketball part of the rotation we like the girls got them in rotation the boys I just don't want to get forgotten because high school got them. Well, it was the girls, right? And the
007girls rotation. So, I just don't want to wait another seven years for them to catch up with everyone else. Probably get a calendar of the rotation, could we? Yeah. I don't think they No, I want to make sure they don't since everyone else has got new ones. I don't want them to go backwards to catch up with everybody else on the rotation. So, Very good. Uh academic report. Whoever wants to go first. Well, that kindergarten round up till like 6:30. He'll be second grade, but he'll be there. Well, I will go. Um we are getting the ground running with track practice. our our numbers are lower than usual. Normally we have like a ton of kids out. Um our we don't have a whole lot of eighth graders. I think we have less than 20
008eighth graders that are out. We have 40 seventh graders, but that class is huge. So I mean it's barely a little drop in that class. Um so it'll be interesting. We'll have our first meet Thursday at Silver Lake. Um so we'll see how things go. But there the pickup and drop off lane is going well. It is pretty smooth process. There's still a few kinks to work out, but the bottom line is kids are safer. They're not running out. they're not um you know just darting in and out of cars, things like that. It's a process timing it from 3:25 when we dismiss to the last car it's about 7 to 8 minutes. It really is pretty smooth and again it's for the kids keeping them safe. Um state assessments, we are in the throws
009of that because every single student in my building tests Yeah. Yes. Um last week we did fifth and eighth grade science. Got all those done. I have a couple of makeups to do but it won't take long. And then we started ELA. This week we do a modified block um to allow for our students to have longer time to read those passages. It is a new test, so we don't really know what to expect or how long it should take them. It's about two passages with comprehension questions that go um with each one. But for our struggling readers and for even those who aren't struggling, it's a lot to ask them to, you know, give us their best to take these tests. Um and so I want them to make sure they're taking their time
010reading, going back, looking at the questions, double-checking their work. So we do give them about 75 minute um hours. So, we do odd hours on Monday and Wednesday, we'll do even hours Tuesday and Thursday. Um, and then in the afternoon, we do just fun activities because we're asking them to work to give us their all. And so, like eighth grade went to the the elementary school and played at the park. Um, other kids went outside. They played car games. We're going to do some community service. Sixth grade is painting um lines on the four square pore on Wednesday and they're going to paint new basketball lines and pick up some trash and they're going to paint just blocks some lines for the slots in the car loading um and then my art department they are
011going to design some like fun like pictures you know whatever I don't know what they're going to do um for each different lane. So just add a little something fun. Um so we're doing that. We are very appreciative of all the snacks that were donated. If you've walked by my offices is a disaster. It is snack zone central in there. like they were box upon boxes. But the kids love it. They really do enjoy like they're eating, they're working, they're, you know, enjoying their snack. I put little motivational things with all the mints and the suckers and like Smarties, like just cute little things. Um, so it really helps them, I think, you know, feel good about what they're doing. Um, so I appreciate all of that. Um, our eighth graders are going to do
012their job shadowing day on April 17th. Miss Andrew Andrews has been working really hard to get everybody matched up with something they really want to do. We have kids going to a tattoo shop um because that's what they want to do. And the one of the moms there are partnered like friends and so they're coming in before it even opens so they can just kind of see the things and then they're going to watch their mom get a tattoo. And so like we're really trying to reach and get what the kids want to do. My daughter's going to go shadow her dad in the ER and go to see a sur surgery because she really wants to be a doctor. So like we're really just reaching out trying to get those things. They'll come back
013and they'll have pizza, they'll write thank you notes, reflect on their experience. Um and then we have a tracking that day. So, we'll send them to track. Um, but it'll be exciting. A lot of them are pretty pumped about it. On that note, we do host a trackmate on 17th. So, if you would like to help volunteer to work an event, reach out to Miss Williams because we will need them. Did you you had a teacher recently give an award? Um, we had we had the Kansas teacher of the year um banquet on Sunday for Miss Haymon. She was the one who was nominated to represent the elementary for our district. Cool. It was a good It was a good event. Do we need to go back and approve anything for the journalism? We don't
014have to do anything. Just wanted to Oh, you're approved. Just wanted to make sure. Yes. Good evening. high school um update is a lot like the middle school. We are in the throws of state assessments. Um we finished English last week and we will start math tomorrow. Um the juniors are currently working on their CDM, which is the class-based assessment for writing in history, government, and social studies. And they have to do a claim, evidence, and reasoning using their documentations documents that they're given and a topic. And it's all the same topic. So they write from there. Um following our math and our dinners, we'll start the science assessments. Um SAD has been very busy for us here um at the high school. The half day before spring break, they brought in um the seat
015belt convincer and we have two highway patrolman that came in with that. And then we had another highway patrolman come in and talk to him just about what happens, what do you do if you get pulled over, what's the appropriate protocol, how do you go through a roundabout correctly, um when you get when you turn, what lane should you be in, just some general um traffic information with them and it was um really informative for them. And then um we also had the beer goggles where they could had to do some tasks in the the gym to see what it's like um and kind of tying all those things together of you know make smart decisions. Don't drink and drive. Don't be intoxicated by drugs or alcohol um when you're driving because this is how
016it can impair um your vision, your balance, your decision making. And then we also had um nurse Abby and she had a um alum who is a nurse now. Heather used to be Kaylor. I don't know her married name um but was with her and they went over how to use an AD AED and use the machine on the mannequin and talked about CPR. So everybody has at least seen that because those machines are supposed to be able to give you the instructions of how to do it whether you're trained or not. So, take a little bit of that scare of never doing doing it before in case it's ever needed. Um, the other half of the um school was in watching a video about um making good decisions and then they flip-flopped. And then
017last Friday, SAD brought in Miss Kansas to talk about domestic violence and healthy relationships. And then she also tied that into um safe driving and you know, choosing who to be in the vehicle with if you're riding. Um, and so they've been very very active. Um, and as we're talking about Mrs. Becker, who is the sad sponsor, um, she was our nominee for region two teacher of the year. Unfortunately, she didn't make a finalist, but as Dr. Watson shared, everyone there was a winner. And if you look at the caliber of teachers, I'd hate to been on that committee to have to try to make that decision. But made you proud to be an educator in Kansas and see the fantastic people that are out there teaching our kids. upcoming. We've got academic awards um
018May 6th and then the Tuesday after that, fine arts night. Um we have AP tests starting um in May and then we'll have a Washburn signing day. So, lots of things coming up. Um we will be working to fill positions as you can see those two there. And then I wanted to recognize Mrs. Jensen. Um due to her efforts, we've been listed as a 2025 all-star high school. So, you had to host a apply Kansas event. You had to host a fast com completion event and have a college signing or senior day signing which is in the process for her. So, we've um met all those qualifications. So, especially as a first year in a counselor's position and I think she deserves some kudos there. Questions on any two. Do we have an AED? We
019do. Right outside the gym in the comments. Okay, because I saw that Kansas had allocated a half for schools to get I don't know. And I think we're talking about trying to get one that's portable that can go on field trips. And second question is, will you be delegating this task to assistant principal? Sounds like a great idea. Anything else? [Music] Good. Thank you. On the AED, um we are purchasing the F education foundation supported purchase of one and then there were some other things added. So we're going to purchase a portable one to be able to take on field trip and stuff. So that's like I was thinking track means like football usually have somebody there but Yeah. I just thought that it be take advantage of it while it's available. That's about it.
020Probably should be one to try permanently. You guys all have a handout of the monthly update, but I won't read through everything. Um, but one thing I did want to touch on, we had our meeting and last Wednesday. Um they were discussing inclement weather days because they wanted to add a third paid inclement weather day for class or for pair professionals specifically. Um and they were giving examples of what the other districts are doing and ours was outdated since we had just voted last month to pay for inclement weather days um moving forward. So I notified the rest of the board members that that's what we were going to be doing and Ocaloosa said that they also are going to be moving that direction. So, we voted unanimously to go ahead and pay classified staff
021or pair professionals um for all inclement weather days moving forward. So, we were a trend setter. That's a good trend. Yeah. Yep. Um and then you can see our this is certified staffing that I showed you. I don't have a color printer, so sorry about that. But you can kind of see the openings um and where they're at. Kind of. I just emailed this to you later. Maybe. I didn't even look at it. You really can't tell, can you? Kind of can. So, I'll just email that to you later. But they're in decent shape. They're They've got some openings for sure. This is the time of year where a lot of things will pop open. people to us usually and I used to do that but then I would be too late sometimes and I
022felt bad making you scream and bowl started at well let's move on to board issues first one up is the education system accreditation act plan update we have a couple people here that are from the district leadership team. So while they're coming up the action plan, Kansas education system accreditation. That's how all public schools are accredited. Um our team has been working diligently the last few years. Uh KISA is relatively new. Um but this is about mostly are our efforts around professional development where we're trying to get our resources towards school improvements. So we have Eric and Allen um have agreed um to share this update with you and this is really just an update. Like you said, I'm Carrie Bar and that is Alan Dick and we are representatives just from DT or the
023district leadership team. About 2.0. Um it is 2.0 just a little brief history. It used to be a fiveyear um cycle and you would kind of not do much years one through three you were planning and doing things and then you scrambled to check boxes that you did things and then they came and year five you had to say you did all these things. this year they I mean now it is a one-year every year you cycle through and you set new goals and you meet with KISSA and we'll go through what that process um so the components of the accreditation is compliance outcomes and then your school improvement. So these are the three things that we have to make sure that we hit and go through in order to get accredited. The first part
024compliance really is just the stuff that you would think of as what that old original key process, the accreditation process. It's the check in the box. These are the things that we're always doing. It's a list that the state is constantly updating. Um there's different people in charge of each of the things, but it would be checking to make sure we're getting done. Um these are examples, but not all of them. So uh seems so currently because this is the new how things are going to roll. Um they are setting these as we go. The goal is that these are what we'll be judged on if I were to say like the outcomes that we have to prove. So our ELA and mass state assessment scores they're going to look at our high school graduation
025rates and then postsecary effectiveness. Um, so the plan is is that they'll have those benchmarks or what we're hoping our growth looks like by this spring and then we'll be implemented in the 26 27 school year. Um, when our KISSA representative came and talked to us, she wasn't sure if they were going to follow through on the postsecary effectiveness. So, we don't really know if we're going to be um to use the word judged, but like critiqued on that aspect or not. Um it'll we'll just see what they say. So hopefully that's this spring, might be this summer. Haley said she heard it might be a little bit later. It's just they're working on it. the as far as how the outcomes are evaluated, it's based on the four fundamentals that we have. Um kind
026of similar to the four goals that you set, the state has set goals for districts on how to measure the effectiveness of their improvement. Um based obviously structured literacy, standards alignment, balanced assessment, and then quality instruction. Um it's supposed to be a pretty comprehensive list. The idea is that it's not that we're picking one thing and that's the only thing that we're working on. It's that we are constantly always working on those four things, but we're always presenting at least one plan to the state during the accreditation process to say that we are we have a focused and thoughtout plan with outcomes and goals and measures that we can use that's on one at a time. Um, in the district, I'm sure you've heard all of the acronyms that we're doing. We're we're doing something
027all the time with all four of them. Just one of them. We're presenting to the state to prove that we're something. So he just touched on the four fundamentals. This is what the model looks like. Um so we'll go into how we divvied it up and what we decided to go with, but like you said, we have the four fundamentals. So either structured literacy, standards alignment, balanced assessment and quality instruction. So they kind of want you focused in those areas. From there they have the structures and this is what are you how are you going to um support hitting your fundamentals. So resource allocation, educator evaluation, professional learning, professional collaboration, and then tiered systems of support and then just the partnerships that you set up. So they kind of structure it like you're going to
028focus on your one structure that you're going to really utilize as you are putting in your um your model and then there's the lead indicators just how are you supporting it and then as we build our plan we had to follow our measures of progress and so what's our measure it had to be measurable you had to be specific um exactly what your plan is going to be and then in six months what do you want to have accomplished and then in one year what do you want to accomplished That's kind of and then we'll go into what our like. So the we started this in early January early January started step one the process actually goes through six steps each year. Uh we started January with the first one which was just getting the
029curriculum team the DT the BLTs together. Uh going through everything getting an idea of what the whole process looks like. Then we met with Gan Rush, which is our representative for Kissa. And that's step two. Step three was kind of the things that we've been doing all along where we meeting with BT members, we're meeting with DT, we're meeting with you guys now, and step four, you know, we're engaging with all of you guys, presenting the idea of what it is before we finally submit the plan, which will we've got it all pretty well written up and ready to go. We're just waiting for that final step. So, In step three, that um school improvement day, there were 10 of us who did go to Greenbush um and we met with um there were three
030other like school districts there, so we could kind of bounce ideas off. What what are you guys focusing on? And it was we're all kind of in the same boat. It was nice to hear that um we're kind of all focusing on the same thing, maybe slightly different for each district, but all have the same goals or needs that we're trying. So the state kind of sets forth an action plan. Um so this is what each one needs to include. So you have to choose um one fundamental that you're really going to emphasize. Like he said, it's not forget about everything else, but what are we going to focus on and aim our plan around? Um and then you pick one or two structures or lead indicators that really tell how you're going to use
031it locally. Um one or two measures of progress per structure. And then you have to again make sure you hit the why. Um support everything with your data and any evidence and then make sure you know where you're going. So they always want to make sure that you you're not just going to stop and move on like what's the next step from this point on. So the fundamental that we chose as the not just us but as the entire team was to focus on our standards alignment. It paired well with the curriculum mapping that we found that we've been doing throughout the year. Um, we've also recognized that there's been a need, I know when we were all here a couple weeks ago for the uh for the student outcomes meeting, we talked a lot
032about how we see this data coming in that we're not quite where the state would want us to be and not honestly not where we really want to be with where our general 80% of our kids being above a certain threshold. Um, so we when we went back and looked through the data, it was more that it's a it's a it's an alignment issue, a vertical alignment issue as well as a horizontal one in the buildings and across the buildings. Um, so that's the one we went with. The structure that we're going to use to address that is professional learning. Like I said, we've already had a curriculum team that was built that was went and got training on how to get people into Embark so that we can begin having those conversations. If we
033can get the staff to put down in writing what it is that we're doing throughout the year, what does my year at a glance look like? I can go back and we can start having those conversations with each other about, well, I thought that you taught in sixth grade. Well, no, the last time they really heard it was in fourth grade and that I didn't even know that wasn't a standard. It's all that kind of those discussions that we can't have until we all know exactly what we're doing that we're really going to focus on. So, um, our plan is to put together just professional learning days, get the curriculum set, the curriculum team into those conversations where they can have or help where needed. Um, and then our lead indicator we are or sorry,
034measures of progress. That's Oh, sure. Yeah. So, um, measures of progress, he kind of touched on it. So, our six-month target, we're on our way even though we haven't hit the green button first, but um we have established that curriculum team. Um that curriculum team, we were fortunate enough to go and be a part of the empowering leaders curriculum series at Greenbush so we could kind of see how we can take the Embark data and hopefully build from it and not pointing fingers at you're not doing this and you're not doing that, but how can we work together as a team? They gave us some really great resources to use for that. Um, we met with the admin already and we plan to keep meeting with the administration at their admin meetings. Um, making sure
035that our goals are being met and that we're all on the same page. Um, and then developing the PD days um that are designated for the curriculum alignment. And then hopefully at the end of the year, so we have until February 26th of next year, um we will have two PV sessions that are devoted just to this. Um 85% of our courses are mapped out and um the curriculum team will keep meeting with that admin team and just making sure that we keep growing. Um and then the anticipated next actions. Um there is more series that we would like our curriculum team to keep going that really went into the um assessment alignment and making sure that our assessments are hitting the standards and we're really testing what we say we need to test and
036we can have all of that data. Um so moving on with that and then just continuing to map out our curriculums using the embark that we've already used and um really making sure that we identify those gaps in our standards. question. Thank you for cutting us into it. You guys have questions or anything? I mean, any of us are Who is the curriculum team? So, there are there's you and I, there's Penny Fleming and Raven at the elementary obviously. So, each building two representatives from every building. Okay. Um And this is just some of the behind the scenes curriculum work that happens every year. Um, and we just wanted to walk the board through it because later this week, Haley and I will actually go in and submit the plan and we'll wait for approval.
037He's the only one who has the power to hit the green button. Right. We can just view right very well. Um I guess the one thing that she did want that Haley did want us to make sure that you guys understood was that this isn't the state like giving us approval or disapproval of our plan. It's that when they say approval, it's that yes, we agree that this meets what we have as our definition of what school improvement looks like. They're not saying you can't do that or you can because we were already in this process. It's just they want to know what we're doing and then they they're either going to agree with us or not that that they're what they kind of define. If they don't agree, it's really just we need more
038information. Um and so if he if we submit it and it gets sent back, then it's just supported a little bit more. Maybe we need a little more data. Um they really want to make sure it's specific. So maybe we were too vague in something. And so it's not necessarily that we did anything wrong. They just Yeah. It's not like they're gonna say no. It's more just okay that Yeah. Okay. That fits with what we were. When do you find out the results of or their conclusion when like if we get to dig in. Yeah. Um usually within two weeksish is what we've heard. 14 days and then you can go back and forth and then the following year do they just check up and see? So the following year we will go back into
039this next anticipated action becomes this. Okay, we have our nest our next anticipated action that she was talking about. We're going to start, you know, if everything works out like we planned, we want to start talking about assessment alignment. Then we would go in and say, okay, how are we going to address assessment alignment? Are we going to use PD? Are we going to do evaluation? Like it's it really is a framework that we can follow and then that'll come with a six-month goal or a 12 month goal. And then we're just going through and reassessing whether or not that's the fundamental that we want to address or do we want to do a different one or because we're always working on something. Yeah. It just happens to be this year our big focus has
040been on curriculum. Next year with letters training coming through and finishing up. It might be on structured literacy, right? It might be on something completely different. It's we've got so many different things we can do at home. It's just this one was the one that kind of fit the best what we're doing this year. So, well, we hear Kissa every year. It's nice to see exactly what that is. I don't know. I hear a lot have ever seen that. No, I don't. This is the first year they've done this. Yeah. Before it was a fiveyear cycle. I'm sure you've heard just in meetings before we're in year or two of accreditation or year four, right? Nobody ever really kind of knew what that meant. Yeah, we're just plan where we know we have a story.
041to it. Like I said, it's not that the state's telling us what to do. They just want to ensure that every school district is at a certain standard of what they're doing around those four areas. And they can jump in should someone fall below before it's been five years and they fell through the you know the gaps and so it's kind of nice. Thank you. Thank you, Matt. Moving on to the Jeffree School updates. So, we'd like to introduce our new director coordinator, Brie Williams, and she's here tonight to provide an update on where we are, everything preschool. Yeah. So, we um conducted interviews for teachers last week um and we um suggested a couple to and they or proposed positions to them. They accepted and so it's up to you guys to approve them.
042Um the playground is looking very nice. It's almost done. We were just there. Um the Vindicator came and did an article with uh Wes and I last week. Um so that should be running this week. Um, we have two parent nights coming up on the 10th and the 15th. Um, so that families can get some information, get some uh, questions answered. I know that current preschool families have a lot of questions and hopefully those two nights will um, ease their minds a little bit. Um, and we have a lot of information to share with them about what to expect for next year for um, and just get a lot of community members in the door and signed up for present. We have we're looking at right now mid50s for numbers. Awesome. And that's just our
043district kids. That's just our district. Wow. That's awesome. And now that in So we will have our current Keystone program blended with the three and four year old at risk and then all the three and four year olds that will be able to pay. Um so it's a blend. Um hopefully they'll you walk into our kindergarten classroom, first grade classroom, they're all together. Just check kids. You don't know if one of them qualifies for free lunch. You don't know if one of them has an that's the same model we will set up next year. Our staffing wise also depends on we don't want to turn anyone away, but if we end up with 80 kids, well, we've got to have 80, you know, so we're it's kind of what's our highest number of enrollment possible
044that we're able to accommodate capacity. Well, with that building, we could accommodate any 34 year old. So if you look at they're doing kindergarten roundup right now and I was in there taught them today and I think they had maybe 67 kids already going through roundup. So if you just think well are there 67 four year olds are there 67. So, um, PR normally has about 13 to 15 of the kids. So, the rest are all welcome. But we could have 100 kids. If Now, a lot of parents, if if you're doing it at home, great. But if you're not, you know, if you look at kindergarten and first grade, you're talking over a hundred kids. So right now we have two that we approved. So if you get any more, you're going to suggest
045we need to hire another teacher. Really did. Okay. Right now we will have three. Three total. That includes three. Okay. And you'll have two tonight to consider. Okay. We've interviewed another. So it's just, you know, this first year we're having to back in to an unknown number. Um, how many what's the amount of kids per teacher allowed by the state with this type of program? It can be up to 20. Up to 20 per. Well, with a teacher and a parent. Okay. It's 10 for adult. Yes. And obviously we want to keep it be nice to have it around 15 to So, you'll be fine with 30. I currently teach preschool and I have 18 and that's a solid number of be hiring also par. Okay, good. You know, so to to support the goal
046is to have a teacher and a par in every classroom. Yeah, the goal they'll be Jeff West Paris or will they be from Keystone? No, they're now great question. Keystone preschool will be in there, right? So they'll just take their teachers and paras over there with us. We will hire our own general ed teachers and parents. Okay. Okay. So and then they will work together. Perfect. And this is actually a plus for Keystone. We were actually discussing this last week. They have indicators that they have to meet as well. Like they they get reviewed every year and um they score really low on their preschool age kids because not every district has a preschool program. And so there when you we say least restrictive environment, if we put them in the Keystone preschool, that's not
047considered a least restrictive environment because it is for kids with IEPs and pure models. So that doesn't actually count. So when we open a program like this, we will not have a place to place those kids, which in turn helps Keystone service those kids. So they've got somewhere to put them. So it's it's beneficial for them, too. So the best example is kindergarten, first grade, second grade. We don't have the students with the IEPs in a separate location by themselves. Yeah. But our current Keystone students here at the high school don't have another general ed preschool to blend in with. So we don't score well. Yeah. But Harry's the only one that does. Next year we will. Yes. Because we'll have an early Yeah. We were used as an example why this is a good
048thing. Awesome. That's good. Yeah. And the uh Belinda and Keystone's team have been doing we've got another meeting coming up here with them just to coordinate the whole opening of Yeah, they're all on board. No pressure. We're on you to succeed. So, another thing is maybe next Friday, uh, we did secure a storage unit and we will be going to Washurn Rule, they've got, I don't know if you noticed on the news with their bond issue, they built a whole new preschool. So, they have a lot of prior equipment in storage units out at Forbes. And so, we're going to load up hook up trailers and we're going to go furniture diving. That's a knee replacement. So, you're not fly around. I am driving. He's flying. So, but anyway, that's another thing. But we've got
049we are getting um bids um to fence around. So that'll be coming soon because once they get the playground equipment all done, next thing we'll have to fence it and it's not as much to it's just like our elementary playground. We want the community to come use it on weekends and stuff. We need a fence because during the day you don't want to walk out there with 16 kids and then go back in with 15. That's just in a perfect. So we've got that. We'll talk about uh some signage that we're going to be working on bids. But we wanted to for you to be able to meet Bri. Brie lives just north of town and um he's a and Bree's grandpa is Santa Claus. That's so exciting. Know him. He's famous of mine. Yeah.
050Well, thank you. Thank you. Nice to meet you. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Good luck. Yep. West Preschool Tiger Club. So, in line with that, um, we had you see here for the preschool. In a lot of districts, not all, but a lot of districts, their preschool mascot is like the T version or the front version or whatever of their district. So, you will see um we had them work on what would a tiger cub look like if the board were to say, "Let's have a cub for the preschool." Um, love the mascot, but it could be somewhat scary for a three-year-old. And what they did, if you look close, the stripes on the um forehead are the same as our adult tiger. You can see the whiskers on the side, three whiskers on the
051side. You can see the eyebrows, the three, you know, so they tried to create a cub version of our adult. Like how they got the Jeff West on the chest. Yes. And then you notice the chest there for the cub is a JW. Okay. Um two versions, one just ahead and then one or so wanted to get your um now there's a paw on the side. I'll explain that here in a minute, but just wanted to get your thoughts and ideas on a preschool code is and this is strictly for the early education program. Preschool. Okay. Now, Wes has already fell in love with it. You know, early childhood. This is our preschool. are, which is nice because we'll look at some things, just some ideas to not brand, but to remove the keystone and
052identify. We'll talk about that here in a minute. Um, but just thoughts about the he like the full body. I mean, I like the full body the J on the chest. See how that friendly sass if you look at this what we're looking at and I'm working with three signed companies but we've got to share with them what we would want. And this is just an example. The top part of the picture is just the front of the building that would say Jeff West Preschool in red to provide some color. You know, a lot of our buildings right now have the old aluminum working, you know, that doesn't and try to give it some some appearance, some color. There was the idea that the fullbodied one can be like a three, four foot tile tub
053where the kids walk in, they can touch and it's, you know, and then the bottom one there's a lot of real estate of brick on the other end where we could put a large just the cub face just to get your thoughts and ideas on do is the Jeff preschool is Is it back lit or is it right now? These are just colored without being back lit. Um I think the back lighting is Do all of our schools say Jefferson West or do they say Jeff? Jeff that's the first thing that caught my eye. I was like, [Music] um, you know, I know the elementary's Jeff West about the only time I've learned that we use Jefferson is on legal documents. Okay. Like um maybe a letter head or whatever, but I think on a
054normal routine Yeah, that's just was my question. Are you afraid you'll get confused? No, I just know that continuity Is it Jefferson on the but that's the old rock out front Jefferson? Yeah. So that's up to that's where you get to have your input. Do you want I like saving the money and just going Jeff got a few bucks in my pocket. Can somebody make this decision? I mean I went to school here. We always just said Jeff. that I know the older generation when we the booster club made Jefferson washers they wanted original when they do the pricing can we just get it though they we probably get two options yeah they can do two options and we can go from there and it's really I don't know the history enough but we look
055the elementary says Jeff West Elementary so at least right now I don't think our buildings are consistent right moving forward I think we would want to be contestant. That was my thought. Yeah, I I always should say Jeff. I never say Jefferson, but like on documentation Jefferson West say early education center or is that too much? That's a lot of letters. big wall. So the so the committee looked at preschool because the state holds it a preschool. Okay. Okay. When you get into early childhood, that's language that um KDH uses for childhood centers. Yeah. Which you have to have a license for a childhood center. the state fund is is a preschool and we're going to go with just a state run without having to for example kneecap had to have an early childhood KDH
056license but it was a federally funded so it's just kind of a early we called it early childhood it it is funded as a preschool okay so kind of close with your MS HS JW PS JWS JW MS JWS one thing consistent actually there's only one student this one would anybody like to make a motion yes I would I would move that the board approve the new Jefferson West Tiger Cub logo to be used for the De West street school in favor Excel. Awesome. [Music] I'm still uh keystone. So, just an update on the lease agreement. Uh I don't have an official um document that goes there. I I sent you a draft uh last Friday visiting with Doug and and Bell can chime in. Um really it's basically end time. They'll have the custodian
057because it their custodian doesn't have a building to go to yet. We will have the utilities because we were going to be paying utilities regardless. There just won't be any money exchanging. We won't charge them rent. They won't charge us at the end. Uh a capital outlay. We will have to negotiate some things. Um what are they going to do with kitchen equipment? Well, they don't know yet. Um, we're not going to be cooking food over there, but it might be nice to have some burners and ovens if they don't want them, just in case Oak or we want to have some event and, you know, people want to be able to make chili or or whatever. So, we'll have to work some of those things out. I mentioned the um Ozaki Chamber is interested
058in the greenhouse. I visited with Bri and Wes. We probably won't be doing, you know, and preschool, you know. So, there's a lot of that kind of stuff that Keystone still doesn't know because they haven't even broken ground on a facility. But when it comes to the lease agreement, it's just going to be inind how we're going to work as being co-enants sharing. They'll have someone sitting out front. RI it is going to get together with them about phone lines for the first internet but we're just not billing them and they're not going to bill us which is probably the best possible scenario we absolutely it helps us transition and it helps them transition in this graph the last paragraph I'm not going to read it all but it says 76,300 whatever they're going to
059remove it that's what we're waiting for and we discussed it at our Keystone meeting last week and Brad was actually the superintendent there. So, he got to answer some of the questions, too. Um, but that's part of we'll remove that and then they're going to have their attorney look it over and do a final draft for probably approval next month. And I think the reason it was in there was because they were talking about that was originally, but that was two years ago. So, that could have been depreciated down and that would be removed. The only other thing was Doug had had in there a move out by date of like June 30th of 25 and we were like that's all dependent on when you get the keys to the new facility. If it turns
060out to be September Yeah. We're okay with that. So I think they're going to change the language to Yeah. Doug wanted three months after. Yeah. Doug wanted an incentive to motivate them to be out. Wanted to make sure that there was that push to make sure that they had an out by date. We're not worried about it, but they would they'd like to have a date on there. So, well, I think they're going to go with something like so many months after a new facility is turned over for occupancy, right? That gives them a month or two. But if if they run into construction issues and change orders and ends up being July 30th, that's okay with us. And it really depends on the time of year that it true. Yes. So we're I just
061wanted to update you. They I think they felt good with it. Um they'll let their next meeting will probably finalize and we'll have something to share back with 100 times better than the last ones, right? updates. Uh just a couple things on that. Um Don had mentioned there is uh there was I think a million and a half put in for grants for next year for AED. We are in pretty good shape. We just we are purchasing a mobile one. Um, and as Rhonda mentioned, we've already had some trainings, even training kids, but there will be there'll be some attention next year on AEDs just because the legislature is putting some money towards it. So, we will try to go after whatever we can to bolster our AEDs. The legislaturator's done. Um, there were some
062bills that were actually going to cut career tech this year, mentor teacher this year. A lot of stuff that stuff ended up not making it. Um, we do know what the base state aid's going to be next year, which is some of based off the numbers I shared with you last time and we'll talk about again. Um, they put 10 million of new money into special ed for next year, which is about 80 million short of what the law says to fund it. Um, but other than that, um, we kind of came out, there were some pretty negative bills. They had one bill that for board meetings. [Music] Um, anybody could add anything at any time during a board meeting. Anybody could talk it. It was it was that didn't make it, but it was
063just I mean, it it just basically took all Robert's rules of orders or any constructive from board members to be able to run. Well, I say we try it out with the House and Senate. Yeah, we can interject any time and see how that how well it's Yeah. So, anyway, but um they are done. uh a little concerning because consensus revenue estimates are not out yet. They will come out um fairly shortly. I think actually I think they were meeting today. Um but anyway um I've had my third meeting on the school finance task force. It's just kind of been a lot of learning, but pretty soon they will start um leadership on that. We'll try to look at ways to uh either cut funding in a formula or put strings tied to funding. And
064my feeling is it better be researched and evidence-based because you don't want to play games experiments with kids education. So I will start meeting more regularly now that the legislative sessions are over. But anyway, that's very good. Before we get to student issues, Wes, I know you just jumped in. Do you want to do a board report real quick? No. Perfect. You had a big day. I I get it. No. Um, hey, it was kindergarten roundup day. Um, 66 of them were signed up. We saw about 61 of them. Um, a couple of parents, I think, are choosing maybe to wait a year. Maybe a couple of them missed it. So, but we got a good chunk of them. Of the ones that were signed up, we had 100% attendance. So, that's commitment and and
065I like that. So, that's going well. And then you got the preschool update, I'm assuming. So, nice job. Thank you. Um, let's see. Um, third quarter country store went really well. Sorry, I'm just looking here. We're excited about the Tika Zoo butterfly way station. Do you know what that is? It's It's going to have what we might call weeds. Um but um natural plants that feed butterflies and as they make their migration across northern uh North America, they can stop off at Jeff West and have a snack and a drink and head on their way. They can head on over to Seaman. All the Seaman schools have one. It's been a big thing with Topeka Zoo to get schools involved in this. So we'll get kids out there digging in the dirt and and making
066plans um right there by the flag pole. So it's something Mrs. Lloyd's got involved in and is going well. Um, our KISSA plan is is wrapping up and going well. In fact, it's not quite wrapped up. It's the end of this month when it finally gets gets done. So, um, we've got field trip season coming, so there's a lot going on with that. State testing is underway right now. Um, we start this week with math, two more days for the elementary school, third and fourth grade. Um, so far we've had we are current. We've got everyone current with reading. uh they've been doing a great job of being in school. Um we only had a couple of makeups and and they were back the next day and did the makeup. So as we start testing
067tomorrow, we don't have to make up any ELA testing. So that's always nice um to keep things moving along. And um you know, we're getting ready to schedule next year's music program. So I want to give a shout out to Mrs. Ramsey um for five great programs. And she sent me five new dates. So I guess she's coming back. So that's good. I don't know how she does it. Hey, she just, you know, but she's just she that's that's her. She's in it. She's committed. She's she's just yep what she does. So kindergarteners on point and I was like there no chance I could flexible is what that one is. Yeah. Yeah. That was good. She did awesome. Any questions? Thank you. Okay. Thank you. No match up volleyball. We did one of the first
068one. We're getting a little ahead of schedule. They did win the first one. Good. I love it. Student issues. We're down to personal 15. [Music] 15. We take a little uh let me do a breather. Mr. President, I move to enter executive session per KSA75-4319 for a period of 15 minutes starting at 7:35 p.m. to discuss personnel issues on non-elected personnel under KA section including Dr. New inper and administration with the open meeting to resume resume in the board meeting at 7 7:50 p.m. Second favor. So I don't do it. back at you. [Music] We're going to make you come knock again. We're gonna need some more time. Yeah. between my name. What did we say? 10. 10. Okay. Um, just this thing. Yeah. Okay. I move to enter executive session per KSA 754319 for
069a period of 10 minutes at 7:51 p.m. to discuss personnel issues and non-elected personnel under KOMA exception including Dr. Newan Swer and administration uh with the open meeting to resume in in the boardroom at 8:01 p.m. second Sorry. I know, right? You should take that presentation with you. Mr. President, I move to enter executive session per KSA75-4319 for a period of 5 minutes at 8:02 p.m. to discuss personnel issues and non-elected personnel under KOMA exception including Dr. Newan Swander and administration with an open meeting to resume in the boardroom at 8:07 p.m. Second. I don't put your snacks. Can't get an extra large one for tonight. I saw that. But I thought what's name? Yeah. A minute. Yeah. Take a drink of water. I know, right? I'm like, wait, which one is it? Stretch your
070fingers. Here we go. on the back. I know that's executive session negotiation. Oh, we're not there yet though. This be like next. Yeah. I didn't know if this went with one of these. You need to get them a little r No, it's just gonna basically resation. You ready? M. Are we ready? Mr. the president. Uh, I'd like to motion to approve the resignations of middle school girls basketball coach Taylor, middle school basketball, boys basketball coach Chad Jackson, 5 through 12 vocal instructor Mitch, as well as approve the contracts for part-time middle school assistant principal Alan Dick, part-time high school assistant principal Carrie Bar, driver's ed instructors Weston Meyer and Brad Marquote. Third grade teacher Angela Schneider, preschool teacher Edna Wells, preschool teacher Hollyanne Ael, activities director Cole Bottom and maintenance assistance maintenance assistant Corey Kelly.
071Second. All in. All in favor? Good job. I only have one. Sorry, match. How much? 15 20. Mr. President, I move to enter executive session for KSA75-4319 for the period of 20 minutes at 8:10 p.m. to discuss employer employee negotiations under the KOMA exception including Dr. Newan Sander and admin with the open meeting. Yes. Oh, with just Dr. Afternoon Swander with the open meeting to resume in the board meet boardroom at 8:30 p.m. I think she wants to vote. Hey, if you you can stay as long as you want, but they're just in there talking. kids at home. I mean, okay, it's okay. This is the quiet place. Nobody's arguing with me about not going right. Yeah, that is not right. I agree. Oh my gosh. Here. There it goes. Mr. President, I move to
072enter executive session per KSA75-4319 for a period of 10 10 minutes at 8:31 p.m. to discuss employer employee negotiations under the KMA exception including Dr. Newan Swander with the open meeting to resume in the boardroom at 8:41 p.m. Second. Okay. Yes. Uh just a couple things. Uh one um we're looking at another different type of software program for when um parents or people use credit to pay. Um it's it's we because right now every time they swipe the card it's like three or 4% of Yeah. I mean, if you go to, you know, a county to renew tax, most places, if you use your card, they the person using the card agrees to pay. Well, so we're looking at either one that has a less that's a little more user friendly. It could be that
073we come back to the board and just say, "Hey, you know what? we used to get as revenue every time we pay that 3 4% it adds up it's quite a bit so has the option sorry I'm going to tonight I'll be in Witchah tonight um to and eund is what it's called and they're set up at the conference the skyward conference it's actually very compatible with skyward and they also offer um like right now we use square but they have a program that is integrated into the system that's kind of included and we have our own devices so we could completely get rid of Square. It's a cheaper option and we can actually just use our iPads instead of all of their like Square devices and things. Um you can kids can have a
074wallet so they can just spend money off that. We'll have more information after this. That's awesome. Yes, we need to let her She's Her and Pam are driving to Witchaw after this. Yes, let's get out of here. So, the last thing you have um Bart had some family things. So, these are the strategies. I'll let you look at them. These are the strategies from the last special session around student success and preparation. Um all four of them were great. At the May meeting, we'll bring all four goals with the strategies to the board to review again, look at, and then as soon as the board approves the strategies, then the administration um this summer, we will start working on a strategic plan. Then what do we need to do in the next six months? Just
075like the visa plan, what's the lowhanging fruit? Where do we need to be in 12 months? And so we'll start working on that. So when we're ready to start into July, August, we'll have all four goals, strategies, and a plan on how we start moving all of those forward. So I just wanted you to have a copy of it. Uh actually got put together today because Mark um had some stuff, but anyway, just wanted to draw your attention to it. And with that, Thank you. Yes.