001that e e all right we're going to call this meeting to order at 701 I'll please read the mission statement together our mission is to inspire and Empower our students to reach their full potential through opportunities and experiences in a safe diverse and collaborative environmentall [Music] thank you please trusty Anderson trusty Bowski trusty Dio trusty sterin trusty savanovic trusty wall and trusty W president trusty sovic did um inform us that inform me that she would not be here this evening moving on to the adoption of the agenda be it so resol that the Board of Education accepts the March 5th 2025 agenda as presented a board member May request an item to be moved from the consent agenda to superintendent recommendation we do have two um adjustments it is in front of you um letter
002D um has to do with the um Dearborn Heights Rotary Club and letter e um we had we added um to that resolution may I have a motion so as amended yeah as amended thank you so moved as amended by trusty sterlini second by Miss Anderson any question roll call trusty Anderson trusty dyro yes trusty serini yes trusty wall yes trusty W yes trusty Bowski yes motion carried moving on public comments on agenda items do we have any public comments on agenda items at this time seeing none we will move on to superintendent report Mr clance very good thank you we have a number of things in the superintendent's report but we're going to start off this evening with some I would call them all star ours we're going to talk about drivers training these
003are the AHS leadership students and then we're going to move into the Cooperative education presentation so we're going to have uh the driver's training uh folks come on up you're going to introduce yourself make sure you tell us what grade you're in okay and what your future plans are okay and then we'll forward gotta speak up okay driver's training I'm sorry hello welcome to our leadership presentation thank you for allowing us to be here today our leadership project is bringing driver training back to a na school who are we my name is Hanah SW I'm Cameron and I'm Society president the Key Club secretary a senior Mentor a member of the students against destructive decision a dual enrollment student at Henry Ford college and a representative on my class student council my name is Cameron
004I'm a senior at Annapolis this is my first year in leadership I the president of the class of 2025 student council the conference coordinat to the deor deor heights Model United Nations and a member of ke Club National Honor Society and students against destructive decisions I am also a senior mentor and dual enrolled at Henry board and the I am also a part of the varsity cheer team basketball and Che hello I'm Natalie I'm a senior at Annapolis I'm the NHS vice president he Bolton editor students against destructive decision secretary a senior Mentor the publicist for the student counil a member of the Dearborn gor High SCH mod uned Nations and a du student our class created a vision statement that we wanted all of our projects to stem off of Our intention for this
005year is to create an Innovative change that provides new support for students and their activities and existing needs we believe this will allow students to get the resources they deserve while also creating positive mem we want students to feel valued recognized and comfortable for participating in their community our goal is to create a program at Annapolis that makes it more feasible for students to access driver education our project ties back to the leadership vision statement because implementing driver training at Annapolis would allow our students to receive their driver education at a lower cost in a more accessible environment providing new support and resources for existing commun you may have noticed that I said our project is bringing back driver training and that's right driver's training used to have or I'm so sorry Anapolis used to
006have a driver's training class here a few decades ago we spoke with Mr kwami a teacher at Annapolis who firsthand experienced this program the board covered all of the expenses so it was free for all of the students we are not aware of the exact reason why this program would stop but we would love to bring it back and keep it running for good driver's education is very important for various reasons first off the safety of our students is always a top priority atop list driver's education Works towards preventing accidents by preparing te to safely deal with situations on the road knowing the how to drive defensively and being able to successfully drive from point A to point B are all things taught driver's education driving has also become essential for opportunities in our lives
007whether that's the ability to need to work or extracurricular and we have all taken driver training and we have seen um person effect that had on Liv getting my license was one of the best things that's happened to me um I've been able to take myself to school to work and all of my club activities it's been super nice being able to go places that I needed personally I drivers the way in wit so it was hard for me and my par parents to manage the for Drive think having a program at an be a lot more convenient and ACC for yeah so I also took my driver's training in wi Dot and I remember um struggling with finding Transportation there so much so that I believe I had to miss a day of driving
008that I had to Mi up because I couldn't get a ride there but um reping my uh driver's license driver's license has been such a helpful tool because I'm able to transport myself to um school and extracurriculars andent me for missing don't have a having a license would be beneficial to people at Anapolis Anapolis because many students take du enrollment being able to drive themselves to their college when needed would be super helpful for them if the Cooperative program who presented next does end up launching this would also be beneficial for the students who will be a part of that program in Michigan if a minor is caught caught driving without a license they can be imprisoned for up to 93 days bu $500 or other serious consequences this also raises concerns for Public Safety
009and of course the safety of the driver here's some statistics of teen driving teen drivers who have not completed driver education are 24% more likely to be involved in a fatal or interest crash than those who have and Young Drivers without driver education are 75% more likely to get ticket we plan to work with the official driving school that has taught for over 40 years and has licensed over 300,000 team along with her CEO and their marketing director Glenn Mark Miss Victory the librarian at Annapolis is certified to teach dvis education and she stated she would teach the class so one major obstacle that would come with our program would be finding a how to drive another obstacle would be trying to figure out how we would fund this program to make it cheaper for
010the students since we were planning to work with the official driving school they would provide a car and all the logistics for the classroom as for finances we are hoping to make arrangements with the board to help which camera all discuss yeah so uh the average cost of driver training is anywhere between 3600 if we offer this program at Annapolis in collaboration with the official Driving School it would be $350 per student for SE one and $45 for student for sect two um and we think this program would be such a great benefit for students and willing we would love to discuss the board about funding $200 for students in the Anapolis High School driver training into the budget we came up with schedu to see what the classes could look like this class would
011be after school Monday through Friday from 3: to 400 p.m. we would have the class size of 15 to 20 students instructed by this Victory we would love to get more classes and more instructors in the future but since this program would just be starting out we would keep it one class at a time also this would be based on a waight list so the of this class would be we then surveyed 101 people at Annapolis about driver training and here some of the results of the students we surveyed had not taken driver's education we asked what was stopping students from taking driver's education 40.6% stated they didn't have time 32.7% said it was due to the cost 18.8% stated it was a distance issue and 7.9% than other all of these problems could be
012solved by bringing driver training to an opposition it would be cheaper only an hour after school and more accessible in regards to distance we then asked the golden question would you be interested in taking driver Anapolis 25.7% of students said they had already taken driver's training but 65.4% of students said yes they would be interested in driver training we then have a quote from senior ra Guerrero she stated I think it would be a good addition to the school for other students and it would help many families that I have a second quote from Emerson agie Brown it would be beneficial for everyone wanting to drive and it wouldn't be as scary for people with social anxiety Zoe Paris a senior at anol I think this is a great idea and would have been my
013life 10 times easier it's also important to take a look at some of our neighboring schools likeor high school and foron for example they are all sponsored by the official driving school and offer this program at their school um for example as zborn they take they teach virtually to the students and they will come in to take their test and the official driving school provides vehicles for all the schools um looking at these programs of our neighboring schools would make it much easier to lay out a blue training we believe that getting this project started would also be beneficial to the previous leadership project parking L students to be able to drive would encourage them to participate in acties like this these are some photos from the most recent year of parking L painting which
014had a great turnout and we think this is a great opportunity for students thank you all so much for taking the time to listen to us today does anyone have any questions comments or thank you so much ladies does anybody have any questions decades ago two decades two decades we went around like all of our lunches so it was a mix of like all so that includes fresh I don't know how many like students who would like absolutely mentioned before it be one class at a time until like we can get another instructor and then we can get multiple classes yeah 65 um I have a question did you say that our neighboring schools it's taught to them virtually yes interesting I question my other question is is how long is the course how long
015how long is the course like is a yearlong course is it a semester how long is the course because we would want to know how many students if we only limiting it to 1520 is that 1520 per year or 15 per 20 per cycle and what is the cycle I think first I would be for cycle and then generally yeah normally regular based driver's education usually around three weeks of segment one and segment two is like one week so it really would only take like about a and then how much driving time correct you have to have so many hours of driving I think the driving time would be includ I'm Miss trusty dyra again decades ago um is it still where you have to have yeah yeah I believe Cal hours and can you
016still do that with family yeah so what would the teacher be teaching she drive you for a while she would teach the course course then would she be driving with you you have to get like certain hour instructor ands okay I believe that's after you finish the segment one so yeah during segment one you you have like six driving sessions with your instructor and then after you get your you would get your your LEL perm I believe and then you would get your 50 hours with like a anyone old and then old recollection of program because you're decades old yes I am and you were on my recollection you were on you were on the board for decades yeah do you know why they stopped I was just gonna say doing it exactly what I
017was just getting ready to say yeah my decades old recollection recalls that back in the day when we were running um sort of funds we started cutting programs and so we started cutting I don't want to say non-essential but nonessential right thank you for that answer that information but you're not deck I mean we're all decking but I have a question to be some Tye of they have to accomplish something or just open to everyone so do they have to have main GPA or it would be open to so not only not only here in this school district but many school districts across the state of Michigan got out of what I would call the driver's training business that's when all of the driver training schools popped up it wasn't just here the state of
018michig um went away from the schools but there I do know there are schools that partner with drivers companies and they offer the facility as part of their I don't fincial I do know partnership that's the kind of contri we'll let you come in then we would always ask go the price for our students anding our facility so um I do have a little bit of experience okay or 11 well maybe because they stopped it after that I want to say most of the scho TCH trusty D you had something else to say I just wanted to say that if we're going to consider something like this I would want to know more about the whole viral lessons I don't know that I would be in favor of that you know I just feel like
019I you have to give me some reasons for that you know because I feel like this is something really important that you need to I believe you said Miss Victory would be the teacher so they would have an actual instructor we just wanted to mention that that's how does this okay all right I just wanted to make sure we yes M um the cost of 395 per student does that cover the cost of the teacher as well or just the program the driver only so I heard you correctly they pay the teacher yes that's what their marke um treasur wall um the what I know you guys did Dearborn but out of curiosity do you look at like Westwood or or do they not have it did you look at other districts or we kind
020of just looked at the schools that were like focused on we didn't go as far as others we definitely put more time to research we like got as much information as okay thanks one not pursuing this I don't know how when ideas come forward you know how it's determined whether they're a good idea or who takes it from Once present you know we have it then it goes to Administration I'm to it especially in light of um the School of Choice students that we have and um their ability to get here if that would be a benefit to them I just know when my kids started driving it was Hallelujah I don't have to take them everywhere anymore you know can go get the gallon of milk it just it was a nice thing you
021know so if if that's something to factor in just have a lot ins yeah a little bit more when my son you never know where they're so I kind of think about that but Ian this is something yeah because my liability so yeah I see vice president um I'm also interested in the virtual class just for the students that don't have any transportation at all like our students that are already in the online program so I would like to know how much the online students pay if it's cheaper or the same amount and if the company uh provides the instructed for the online classes all right thank you ladies wonderful job next group come come on up it's Cooperative education now this will also bring backu your okay hello everyone we are here to present
022our new program Cooperative or Co-op Education First let's meet us hi everyone my name is Aruba noer and I'm aior the president of debor New Heights small United Nations and students against destructive decisions I'm the vice president of ke Club in the Arab Student Union as well as the secretary of the class 2025 and the National Honor Society I am a Varley basketball and tennis player and a senior Mentor as well as the r that H College of last hi guys my name is Taylor Gabriel and I'm also a I'm the president of club and the vice president for the United Nations and the stud I also served on the Michigan District board as the membership development co-chair I just retired like a week ago I am the coeditor and chief of the CER I'm
023the coeditor and chief of the CER prior and the publicist of the National Honor Society and the student I'm a VAR leader senior mentor and a senior class representative so before we get into explaining our program we want to touch on our vision statement and our reasoning foring thisam we highlighted the words we believe relate most of our ideal goals to this program so this means that we personally want to support and value students by providing new support in we are striving to create a way that students can get a proper education and work experience okay so this program will let students get working skills in a diploma while still being able to build a risk essentially this is a program for students to leave school early or coming school and job simultaneously getting a
024paycheck and High School Credit so this program is so important because each job will teach skills Beyond public education all in all providing benefits that will last a time this program especially helps students who need to financially support themselves or their family ultimately providing support and keeping stable great so the biggest question we had going to this project is why why do students work after surveying 100 students we found our answers so senior kir ped said I don't have a job the but once I do get a job it will likely be to save up for college freshman William Holmes mentioned how they would be working to save up um senior aen hammad said I did work but I want to work again and I don't of school in time but I would to be
025bump in for myself lastly Junior kalista Gunter said I work so I can support myself more independently instead of depending on my mom so these are just a small these are just small examples of why working is so important for students in our school so many students don't have the time for themselves and it ends up promoting um burnout next in our survey we asked students if they were able to work for high school credits that they undergo less stress 78% of them said yes we also asked students if a co- program would benefit them in 7% said yes we then asked how much they would benefit from this program on a scale of one to three in the average read 2 to truly signify this benefit we reference people who would have participated in
026this program before or would have if available during their employment so these people are stakeholders our first stakeholder is a senior in Annapolis and here's what she had to say about her experience working I worked at McDonald's for a year in a few months everything was good and I had no intention of quitting but unfortunately my schedule got to full and I had too much going on with club sports and school overall I had no time in between my schedule to go to work and I did not want the extra stress of having to balance everything so ultimately I decided to qu if we had called it would have been less stress put on me because I would have time to be invol as well as having a good job and it definitely would have
027changed my mind about our next stakeholder husin Al is an advocate for Co-Op Hussein did coop for two years at his school and it was a great experience Builder as he promoted to shift leader and then to manager Hussein uh graduated from start international academy and now he is currently a student at the University of Michigan here's what he said about the experience could also read on yeah they they came in for our presentation but we didn't want to like back into and then our next stakeholder is Madison MCW Madison just graduated from for in 2024 and was a part of the co-op program from participating in the program she promoted position at her work but now she works at a bank as a bank and she if you guys also want to now after
028hearing about the benefits and experiences of the Cooperative education program you may be wondering how will we go about providing the program to the students of an app so our first step was to think about the n and negative obstacles people may think this project might be uncommon or hard to start or expensive but we know that other schools have this program as we just Star International Academy and have this program CR and high school also have this program this brings us to how will this program be implemented or what are the requirements because we have worked closely with Mrs R the former Anapolis Presswood and Robos Co-op advisor and with Dr Finny the7 curriculum director we have created a plan that we think will work best with our school and its future Co-op workb
029program students are required to work at a job that demonstrates language arts and Knowledge and Skills the ability money customer assistance and relation to their education development plan which is the Z these responsibilities help students get that work experience while learning things would in classes math and we would like to have a GPA requirement of 2.5 and a counsel recommendation to the co-op advisor so every student participating in the program would also have to have good atten each student would apply to this program and get chosen by the coop students have to would have to work jobs within 18 M radi to make advis work easier next we start the program by promoting it through job hosting boards like see you you guys are on the slide um on any open bullet board in the
030school and then send an email BL to the um incoming 11th and 12th grade parents so in this email we'd highlight the student or employee and your guardian are responsible for transportation and volunteer support the students will either have their first couple hours or last couple hours off based on their choice and the required class schedule we plan to have this job replace three elected classes that are not required for grad this could extra class that has already been taken since the student has Sports after school it is best for them to take off their first couple hours they class we would also like to highlight in the that we expect students to turn in weekly hourly sheets to the advisor for 10 points these points represent the 10 hours they required to work for
031the employer and employee would sign the sheet so since students wouldn't be in school for these three hours it would go on the report card as work based learning and their corresponding grade according to the hour the sheet would be on their card we also like to know if that a if a student quits or gets fired from the job they would fill that class so that's all we have for you today we hope that you understand the importance of Cooperative learning and that this is the CH for students of anolis thank you and we will now open the FL to any questions thank you ladies do we have any questions um Derek Mr wall what what would we classify as good attendance um noty probably not having certain number of unexcused that that's something
032that out you guys thank you of com um Miss um who is going to be the co-op advisor so when we have leadership presentations um I don't know if you know Miss stvo yeah she um offered she's totally on Bo she like during questions like this she um expressed to us that she would love to be a part of this and even the um okay with being after presen what you guys want discuss that with any future meetings to figure this all out and then would a requirement of the program be that you have your own transportation or who's responsible for the transportation back and forth during the day of the student um yeah it's up to the students and the parents because yeah kind of the responsibility job well if I'm correct they have
033a certain amount of classes M knowledge doesn't date back to co-op program um so they would have mandatory classes and then go to work for a couple hours and make it credit for and we wouldn't have to and it would be run by a staff and if would like you to pursue it then you would other issues surrounding it because there's always to implementing the program the reason why I know this program so well is when I was building principal for years principal for 10 years we always had a co-op student from the high school come down to the middle school and work in our office and so remember yeah remember that was part of it we loved it great opport for student to learn all of those SKS off whatever so but there was
034a changeed changes at the state level that caused a lot of schools to out of this and then when I became a m rep um schools were they made they changed back could um language policy so check that if this that came well they've done research on schols surrounding language I do know that that's okay it's good thank you ladies very much you did a wonderful job thank you all great job leadership has something for you the best part of this for great job okay very good the next item I have is on the Bal Wayne Risa election so we sent this out to all of the board members um so there there's two seats open for six-year term the election is on June 2nd at 6m at Wayne this board has ADT resolution appointing
035who we going to send to that meeting and appointing who we want them to vote or on the first B and it beyond that then it's up to the individual to they see F so what a lot of schools do and if you read in the thing there was some discussion back and forth about how schools handle this the way that I've always handled it is at next upcoming meeting you you can do it on one meeting attorney recomend two meetings so at to discuss what it is we would do and then come back at 7 so that' just be special meeting you run it just like a meeting You' open it go through the discussion no action close it and then it's an action item at 7 o' so I don't know how this
036District's done that but that's how the districts that I've been associated with the p does that make sense does anybody have any questions or comments about that M dyra so at the first meeting it's just basically saying who's GNA go we need a home meeting for that so discuss the candidates more of a discussion oh okay we don't know who the candidates are you not yet that's why you have to go that's why okay thank you you'll have that okay so now makes sense has to happen after the 21st before the election so was kind of confus at our meeting on our next opuss avable and that is um after March 31st or whatever so I guess if it turns out that there's only two people running which is of the case um then maybe
037we don't need to do that or we do you know because then we're just looking for somebody to say you go do the vote right so let's see how many candidates we have right but I'm in favor of doing that and that makes sense but generally the other question is don't we have to have that meeting within 21 days of May 21st that's why I'm kind of understanding so that wouldn't be the next meeting unless we're just discussing it the next meeting in April after have April could do it our right right because we can't do it any earlier yeah that's what I'm just saying right guess we're all saying the same thing I think oh I see what you're saying no earlier than 21 days right so it would have to be the second
038April or the 1 May for the first May yes okay according to the thank you for that but we can yeah so whether or not we want to have one next to sta discussed but there really won't be anything to discuss except to be the elect person that pick the vote and it's hard as to get meetings from what I remember last year trying to get people for meetings I think I think less meetings is always better dat yeah okay everybody good with that then okay moving on next item that I have this is a discussion item um there was a meeting last week um Brian our atic director been discussing with folks on possible field project the board member asked to put it on here just for open discussion this was one of the
039presentations last year when I met with those folks I I think I was pretty clear that the district has lots of needs um in terms of talk about Madison talking about you've got some other major projects that we're looking at we just button down one huge project for the district site project so that's ready to rock and roll and going to roll plus you know we've got hbac going in in two of our elementaries so we're quite busy um but we do have list of projects and other things but they did want me to just in early discussions to talk about it and discuss about it we want to open it up board kind of get a feel of of where the board's at a major project down the road something like okay so I
040got wind I was invited to this meeting I got wind of this meeting and was invited to attend um from Mr Buchanan and um the concerns that were brought up um by Mr Buchanan was lack of space and storage um at the high school um talking about expanding our programs we have soccer now boy soccer and girl soccer please correct me if I miss anything um and you know he's got equipment in the hallway blocking the hallway um near his office he's got stuff in his office um just the lack of storage that we have the other issue that was brought up was girls volleyball cannot be played at the high school um you know the roof is not the ceiling of the um gym is not high enough for certain events um what else
041that was the main those were the main main concerns um for those things um somebody else a community member's concern was that children are leaving our district from the middle school and going to schools of choice in other districts that have better Sports programs they're not staying within district 7 they're moving on to other districts because they have better sports program um it was brought up how is a field house going to make it better make your sports programs better the idea was that there's more time for practice there's more room for the various Sports and a um activities to go on um they t talked about field houses in other districts and what they look like on walking tracks so it was brought up that you know our seniors could use use the facilities
042during the day um on this side you know depending on where you you would put it there was two um areas discussed the field um across the street from Annapolis High School or the Mayfair field um behind pulk that was thrown out there again this was just everything thrown out just ideas people talking um and Mark you know made it very clear that we have a lot of other projects that we need to look at you know it suggested that we do a a faciliity study where we would have um somebody come in and look at our facilities um you know perhaps they would be able to find some room that we don't know that we have you know having somebody look at something like that um or we don't build a Fieldhouse maybe we
043just you know take the roof off the gym at the high school and expand the gym you know make it taller put an inside walking check there looking at that but also looking at all of our facilities looking at Madison looking at um PK and party and the playgrounds and the middle school and just everything so that is what that meeting was about I happened to be invited to it and I went because I was curious um there was no agenda it was made fully you know in this discussion that we were bringing this to the board that this is not something that we're going to just say sure let's go ahead let's do this or let's take it to building in sight no it has to come before the whole board to discuss what
044this would entail and to discuss the needs of our district okay so let me see some of things so Brian be brought this for yes as a field house idea yes okay um so he's not the first athletic director who hasn't had storage and he's not the first athletic director that hasn't had space for practices and while I respectfully understand that um we make it work um there's Richard A young that we could rent the gym from there's we own the eaten Center they rent from us a dollar a year we could use that gym for extra practices there's other yep I'm sorry I don't mean to interrupt but thank you for bringing that that was also brought up was um that we said that you know the city pays us am easly dollar a
045year for the Inc um and that's not you know okay the other thing was we um allow other um entities to utilize our facilities at no charge however we're paying for the lights we're paying for the electricity we're paying for other custodians we're paying for security what you'd be doing in a new fi to I might add okay thank you that but I just wanted those were those were points that I wanted to bring up thank you I'm sorry go ahead app we only eat yeah and you know the eat Center and what they pay us is a whole different ballum they've been paying that for a long time that's not batt I ever want to fight um but have at it um so in terms of space and storage again you know it is
046what it is you know we're talking nothing new my girls played volleyball 30 years ago and they had to play at the um middle school because the group wasn't big enough you know raise the root you know if that's a building and site project that they think is valid you know then consider doing that but to do a field house you guys I just have such a huge problem with that we went it's going to require a bond we went and we already have building in sight that we're going to have to go back and ask for sinking fund dollars again because that's running out um we already asked our community of retirees the majority of people that live here that pay taxes here there a good portion of our retirees and have no children
047in the school district we do that but I don't know that you can tap that well twice in under 10 years you know we just did a six six million dollar Bond right and um and we had great projects on that and we had things in mind for that and there were there were tons of projects that we did thanks joh M she brought that forward in it past um but I just feel like to go back now and say to our community that we want to do this I'm we to PL it by the way in front of your houses you that's going to be your view from now on I don't know that might might have a little bit of an issue that was going to be my look out the window and
048see and I just feel like you know even to do a facility study on all our schools how many times have we done studies on all of our schools I don't understand the concept of a facility study for all of our schools so that I would need more information before I even agree to that because that's not making sense to me either I thought the facility study if you were going to do one would be related to this field house not all of our schools if you're saying something different I would want to hear that but I'm not in favor of this at at all you know I I I just am not I don't see the need and unless somebody comes forward with a big huge presentation on why we need this then then
049you know I'd have to I would change my mind at that time but I also feel like I also don't want a lot of time and effort for people that we pay a salary to to go figuring out whether we do this or not and I do feel it's a board decision on whether we want to F C or whether we don't so one of one of my concerns uh was uh I know we were talk about practice space but I don't see that we have a lot of students in athletics that were like uh like I thought I heard like so I don't have factual basis but I thought i' heard one of the basketball teams ended the season early because there just either wasn't enough children and in the program or they got
050sick or something um I don't see building what is it uh build a field and they will come I don't feel the draam yeah I don't see that happening I see if anything with that happening is more problems outside of that you know um as trusty dyro said who's going to want a big building in front of their house blocking VI I know I wouldn't the other thing is parking you know um and I did hear one um Community member uh who mentioned uh can always build a building deck once again that's higher up and you know you got to talk about safety and all that so it it's just it can invite other things in there that we don't you know I wouldn't want to see in our in our district um but the
051biggest thing is um before I could even really consider that as I'd like to see that we have bigger teams that are playing and also you know GPA are doing really good that that to me is a big thing so um I just well of course financially I can't see that right now anyways because it's it be a big Bond we definitely have other things we got to do but once again I would just want to see that the athletic department is growing the teams are growing and then I could see that but I wouldn't want to build something that L on go well we really can't use that so and the whole idea of using it for other sources coming in to use it they can go to Richard young they can go to
052another athletic place I wouldn't want to necessarily have to use um our Fieldhouse for that I would like to hear more about it I like to hear more about it what is the overall purpose of the are they going to you know after the seasons are over when the school is going to be multipurpose is it going to be used for other venues and events because I'm just thinking about having a field and just being able to for other athletic programs or what you know like basketball tournaments and things like that I'm just thinking about how it could benefit our community versus just disrupted and also I feel like if individual schools with bigger um Sports programs then would that be an invitation for you know could we potentially have more people in our district
053more students in our district I'm just curious put it outwhere unforunately dist a lot as I in addition you know about the children that are leading for better Sports programs I'd be if we were going to in if this go that the board says yes we want TOS this I would really want to know how many kids left this District to go to another District to play any sport I would I would really be surprised it's the tun of BU oh yeah and then you know if you have a field house they're not going to come for the field house we would have to have we have every Athletic program possible you know like all the school districts do and so it's I I just don't see the field being the added benefit that we
054need right now I hope that they stay because we have a great Academic Program you know I mean I love being a well-rounded School District but academics and making sure that our kids are getting everything they need to learn and grow to be productive adults because I don't know how many people you know that have gone on to be professional athletes but I don't know anybody you know I just a hockey player that didn't do hockey here but um you know I just feel like you know our Focus does not have to be on a GPA yes I believe I was informed about that when I asked that when I was first a board member and if we didn't we probably wouldn't have a ton of kidsing so that they can always way do is
055not a valid oh no that's not what that's not what I was trying to just saying it has been a long time complaint a long time complaint that people have been working with with it that's not my biggest valid reason whe it's no academics is I mean great Point that's that's important to me that's always going to be the dollar amone it's where it go yeah I mean because it's really your academics is going to tell you where you're going to go in life honestly I mean what I I'm sorry that's all you took away from everything I said no that is not that is what I took AE on that what I everything like I said I don't feel any way about anything I know um for the facil the survey of our buildings
056because I think we did one um for the building and site committee like two and a half years ago and we did a list of all the things in the district that needed to be fixed and I could afford Madison had like major issues and then there was like the air conditioning like that's where all that stuff came from so I'm almost positive we've already done a survey of all of our buildings and we have a list somewhere of the things that need to be um fixed and I think those um take priority over a field house we were going to go out for another vond which I know we probably likely have to do I would like to see uh those things on the list first before we entertain something that is um something
057people could see as I won't say that it's solely entertainment but somebody could see it as something that's for entertainment we did get some backlash about the football field because one of the things that was said about the football field is that it was going to bring all these people in because they want they wanted the new football field was going to bring enrollment up and I don't think we've seen data that shows the football field has brought enrollment up and here's another multi-million dollar project that's supposed to bring in these students so those would be my thoughts I will say this without without full board support this was this is it we will not discuss this again this will be it because it to have to have full board support full Administration support full
058staff support in order to get the community full support so there was yeah yeah there's no interest for that person to be at that meeting okay so I nothing to do with the city's involvement or anything like that okay that's was Wonder okay thank you on oh I just want to say I want to comment trusty wless and that yes um I'd rather see money go towards what the students see where the students are learning because that changes their academics so having better environment I'd rather see inside stock yes so I if I heard correctly there's at least four that like to see no okay thank you moving on okay so um it's that time of year for schools of choice um we participate in it's called it's called Section 105 105c all school districts
059across state of Michigan um have to opt into these programs through resolutions so we'll have this on the next board agenda but I just wanted to give you a heads up this um so 105 is just general in your county 105c is continuous um taking students from a county that touches your county so um and then there's limited you can limit and then there's unlimited and and so last year we went limited numbers in kindergarten and we identified the spots so we've said like one spot in kindergarten and um our first through fifth grade we had five spots and then in our high school mle SCH High School unlimited role okay so um I've been working with Carol Carol's in the audience she's my School of Choice expert we've been going through laws mve recommendation
060calling everybody that we know one of our neighboring school districts didn't identify which grade levels were open or not they just said we'll take 500 school choice kids yeah so this was much larger district North of us but um Way north of us than next to us so um we're getting ready to put this recommendation together I know that our elementaries are full is this for next year yes for next fall I'm sorry y y next fall um we're full in our um one through fifth grades our kindergartens typically we've left open because we we we get the kids at kindergarten then they stay with us um and then certainly our middle school and our high schools are open what we are trying to get to the bottom of though is that when you limit
061the number of seats that you can take at a grade level this is how we got information about a school district that just said we had a bunch of seats open that that's all you can take and so that's some initial information I receive about the School of Choice program in the way um because it's kind of more from back in the day when I used to do School of Choice when I did School of Choice the county um handled all of it you went to the county if you said you had five slots and you had six people they had to do a lottery you did it right there like genese intermediate but here would be Wayne Rea um but here it's a little bit different the schools handle it so we're still information
062gathering what I don't want to do is make a decision and make a recommendation to the board and get your support and when it's all said and done find out that oh we're we chose limited so you know we can only take five what happens if you have siblings that move into a family and they're in a school of choice there a program that's open so we have some more questions but I want to let you know that we are working to get a resolution in front of you um we do we will recommend two windows we we've lived and learned from this last year so we'll do like a May window and then we're going to do um an a couple weeks in August and the reason for that is we found last year
063we did that uh first window and we didn't get a lot of school choice applications and so we reopened it then we got a ton of them right yeah so um so we're going to live and learn on that on the windows but we're still doing a little bit of leg work if I were if I had to do it today knowing what I know I would open kindergarten I would close first through fifth and I'd open middle school high school you plan to put all those kindergarteners well good question well I I guess we'll find out in my points of PR of talking about kindergarten round up so um I think a lot of that depends on how many um I wouldn't take it I would open it all the way at probably go
064five or we do a limit on but at some point are we G are we talk about Madison yes at some point at some point we're not there yet no we're not there yet okay my question is is didn't did we or did we not put a cap on kindergarten classrooms I thought we put a cap on the kindergarten classrooms so you're telling me that there's not enough students coming in that would qualify to put a cap you're telling me there's enough oh space thank you to have open enrollment for kindergarden so without going over our cap so we don't have those Kindergarten Roundup numbers yet so that'll be um when we're deciding how many School of Choice people we accept do we do some type of um re-enrollment form where we see who's planning
065on bringing their kids back for next year to make those decisions or we just assume everybody's coming back yeah we we assume everyone's coming back if you're once you're in the School of Choice you don't have to reenroll so it's automatic yeah so that's a great question though because right that could happen I have a question also when you talk about having unlimited for high school and middle school how does that work like if our High School classrooms have 30 students in it you know for an English class I mean how do how do we know we're capping how do we know we're not overflowing our our classrooms in high school and middle school so typically in the past we that hasn't happened with our School of Choice programs so we're able to take those
066students um without doing that and when they build the schedule then um students to all right moving on to superintendent's recommendations letter a noncertified staff appointment exhibit one in your packet be it so resoled the Board of Education accepts the following non-certified staff appointments Dina Mohammad m oam m m a d bilingual care professional party effective date February 24th 2025 daun d a i z o u n Oliver o l i v r Middle School Boy track coach effective date April 1st 2025 may I have a motion so moved moveed right trusty wall support supported by trustey winless questions or discussion roll call please trusty dyro yes trusty th yes trusty wall yes trusty Wiis yes trusty Anderson trusty bowsky yes motion carries letter B certified staff resignation exhibit number two in your packet be
067it so resolved that the Board of Education accepts the following certified staff resignations Gregory Scott fer f r r i e r jym teacher at party effective date February 28th 2025 may I have a motion so move moved by trusty winless trust supported by trusty sterlini discussion questions trusty winless I just want to say congratulations on his promotion move up roll call Trust trusty wall yes trusty winless yes trusty Anderson trusty Dio yes and trusty Bowski yes motion carries letter C everyone in the water Metro Park exhibit number three in your packet be it so resolved that the Board of Education approves the 2025 collaborative partnership with Kiron Clinton Metropolitan Authority and Dearborn Heights School District number 7 for the purpose of developing water safety and swim lessons to Res presid the school district will
068pay Upfront for the program and be reimbursed up to $4,450 may I have a motion moved by trusty sterlini support trust support by trusty winless discussions or questions yes Miss um is this basically saying the pro the cost will not exceed 4,450 no we will be reimbursed for the cost of so we do we don't have it's like an open-ended amount of how much it could cost um in the presentation that uh was given the um this is the this is the cost of the progr that's the cost okay that's what I remember that's what I thought but then my next thing is in the contract though like before you sign it district is sp in correctly throughout the whole document and then number one where it says residents I think they should say Dearborn
069Heights they're not Dearborn just to be clear that it's our our city um and then under number three I just have a recommendation of course everybody can chime in but I remember her saying that we were going to have um our students were going to have priority when it came to registering I don't see that mentioned in here in writing and if it's not in writing it didn't happen so I would prefer to see that written in here and I think it falls under section three on their part because they're in charge of the registration link they she did say at her presentation that it was just for um Dearborn Height school district 7 members it's open to the community but she was going to give priority to to the students to the students but
070it just doesn't say that in the agreement right I would recommend it be um eight under three hcma will prioritize s students the regra process if it's our responsibility I couldn't tell whose responsibility it was to pull the kids off the registration link or you know um look at the registrations so whoever's responsibility is just make it the last bullet point but there's us or them anybody else no roll call please trusty wall yes trusty willings yes trusty Anderson yes trusty dyro yes trusty thini trusty Bowski yes motion car letter D be it so resolved Gorn Heights rotary program exhibit four be it so resolved that the Board of Education would like to have the free designate to service alongside the superintendent as corporate designes for Dearborn Heights School District number 7even as members of
071the Dearborn Heights Rotary Club do I have anybody that's interested in being part of the deor heights Rotary Club question Yeah question when do they meet do they meet during the day or is it after workout work during the day at noon during the day at noon okay yeah that's zra I have a question too is the superintendant so we have four memberships right okay what about K maio she was one of the representatives on the rotary forever she's been a rep on there she gets those notices in their um they build bookcases they take a day and they do that with their Key Club and stuff and they do all that so she's been involved with that I would I would hate to find out that she we booted her from the well so
072we're not using our corporate membership now at all it lapsed no we're not so so we are cranking it back up and um well you guys choose to crank it back up I guess because it's free right no no okay there's a cost associated with it think I put it know 250 for corporate oh yeah yeah yeah I remember that okay sorry issues part of problem I think the idea is that I would attend everyone but when they hold I think I'm Prett you can can you sign up I'll be a last sign up it's new because I won't be able to make a lot of new meetings I can make some but I wouldn't be able to make them all I feel like it's every other month something like that I was on I
073I I'm happy to do and they met at different locations right no um usually it's right there at the ccel center and they have a lunch and they have a speaker they've they've been doing travel have they yeah see I haven't I haven't been involved in years so but I wanted to open it up to the board first to see and I would also like to reach out to Carrie maio and see if she wants to be on table didn't that's true nobody puts a motion you're right there's no motion so we can we can just table this till next meeting till the next meeting everybody in agreement with that yeah abolutely okay great thank you table well we never uh moved it moved it right it is on the agenda okay so can we
074have a motion to table it motion meeting um moved by trusty wless can I have support supported by truste sterlini to table deor Heights rotary program exhibit four your packet until the next meeting roll call please trusty wall yes trusty wi yes trusty Anderson trusty dyro trusty St trusty Bowski yes motion carries letter e be it so resolved that the Board of Education approved the attendance of board members Alise stanovic and Tanya sterlini to attend the ma sb's 2025 spring Institute conference on maau island from May 2nd through May 4th 2025 the cost to the district is not to exceed $2,500 which covers registration travel room board and meals only the monies would be derived from General funds I believe that should see $2,500 per per person person I was just so move mov by
075trusty dyo supported by trusty wall may I have any questions or comments just that it okay I will you don't need to reou I just want to make sure for district per person not to exceed $2,500 per person roll call please trusty willin yes trusty Anderson trusty dyro trusty thini trusty wall yes trusty bowy yes motion Carri moving on to unfinished business do we have any unfin I can do my CVA under unfinished business okay great gonna be quick only because you guys have all the notes and all that so this was a it was a virtual I have to say this is the first virtual I actually enjoyed doing it was a really good uh instructor kept us really going good uh CBA 261 advocacy for public education um like I said I'm not
076going to read everything on here but the key things I got out of it it was it was more communication as in you know what are the things that you want to do what do you want to try to avoid um and of course the biggest thing was just like you know transparency keep it concise and um don't keep talking because you're just GNA distract the person from what they're trying to focus um in your uh points here you're going to see the first part is all kind of like bullet point but then afterwards I go into paragraphs and one of the key things they talked about is bulleted items are a lot better to review than it is reading paragraphs people start to get lost um and then uh some of the other things
077um don't use the the absolute words like always and never those are always even on the test questions you can almost always say that's not the answer um and then uh the uh two things they did is they had us write a 35 word um assignment to try to keep it concise um and I'm going to read this one only because um uh I think Mr CLE Hansel like this so if he didn't read this yet finding the right super attendent for our school district family took research Community input and interaction with our students this process has shown excellent feedback from our staff students and community so and uh sorry but but it was good because you know we had you a little bit before and so everyone got to work with you which made
078such a big difference so the second assignment was hard though it was a 500 500 to 700w blog that we had to do within 20 minutes there was four of us and in our little group not only did you each have to do one you had to review it with the other three people all within 20 minutes our group did it which was really good but some of the other ones you can tell that like they got lost in those 20 minutes so but it was really good um but one of the two things that I got one of them was um because you know when you talk to districts you get other ideas and one of the things I thought was really interesting is one school district does three scholarships um of $750 each
079now how they get the funding award I'm not really sure on that part and get that but the way it worked is they awarded um the three students that have the greatest GPA increase from their second semester of ninth grade through their first semester of their senior year and some people were like well why do an app and the theory was usually those that have a 3.8 grade pointer they can go for almost any scholarship but those that start bad um they're not going to get those scholarships so that was really cool I thought that was really awesome so um so that might be something later on down the road but I got like I said I'd like to find out how they do the scholarship you know where they get the funds for that
080um and then the other thing that um took was the code of conduct um I know the students all you know get their own at the beginning of the school year I don't know is it is it by any chance on our website if it's not is it something that could possibly be just so that way it's another resource I know school districts are different though Che on that but that's all I have thank you what that I was telling Mark okay yeah I just don't know if like is there a universal one we break it up to the schools because I think different levels have different okay under new business I go okay I was just GNA ask question I don't know this don't normally video or news oh the um district is down
081the internet is down throughout the district he has audio going right now so they can hear us they can't see us okay under new business um there was I sent out an email asking for um available dates for the March 19th meeting to be moved to either Tuesday the 18th or Thursday the 20th and everybody with the exception of Mr wall is able to make the 20th Thursday the 20th so I put a motion on the table to move our March 19th meeting to March 20th at 7 pm. Miss dyro so your reason for not being there is you have something going on yes he has something that he cannot get out and does everyone want to attend the senior fashion show and I guess my point in this is I don't mind switching if
082that's what everyone wants to do but what are we going to do if something else comes up are we always going to do that when it's kind of etched in stone at the beginning we set our calendar we say we're g to meet on these Wednesdays and I get something might come up but you know are we going to start doing that what if the spelling be was on that would we be saying okay we're not going to have our meeting you know what I mean right I think what what we should um moving forward in the future is when events are scheduled that they are not scheduled on the first and third Wednesdays of the month um in activities such as spelling be prompt fashion shows senior nights for um basketball games things like
083that I don't know if that's a realistic request for schools I think they schedule that when they can because you know the Fashion Show is probably scheduled on that Wednesday because there's sporting events on other days you know what I mean and I guess my point was if we are um I'm not sure how this even became a question if a board member brought it Forward um actually the um advisor or the um president of the um thank you all night party thank you you're um sent an email asking the board to please consider moving their it didn't go to the bo I did forward it oh I don't I don't remember seeing you but okay it doesn't matter sometimes or maybe I didn't forward that email but I forwarded the request yes I forwarded
084the request yes the request came from this person requesting that we move the meeting and inviting us all to attend they would like us to all to attend the fashion show I see I see well you know because I just so I sent out the email and I asked for date people were okay with that right and I understand that I I don't have a problem with how it was done I just want to make sure that we're asking the question okay when something else comes up are we G to keep doing this and then where do we draw them right because then the question comes about how come they got it but no one else did so that's that's we're going start break setting our up for right you know because no offense did
085they make this decision just within the last couple of weeks you know I mean I know you can't answer that right no I'm just saying right so I mean it's kind of hard can we can we just leave the meeting at seven and make it a short as possible you know just do our business instead of I believe their fashion show starts at 6m I didn't at time just and I'm just speaking for myself I'd like to hear what other people feel about feel about that if we get start getting request to move our Bo has anybody been to one before does it go long V fashion show no not a fashion show but this is their second year I think they do the senior prom fashion show every year that's why I every year
086it's a pretty big deal it's a fundraiser it's a l event I go to right or we have a short meeting and we go after you go before you go back right or we change the word meeting I'm not opposed to it either way I just want to know yes I would like to just make the motion to move the meeting as it was discussed through the email and the consensus through the email was that everybody could make it on the Thursday the 20th with the exception of Mr wall who cannot make it the 18th or the 20th and again I don't have a problem with the way we did it and handled it I just wanted to ask a question for future future events you know I don't want to make this B I
087think we would have to look at it as at a case by case basis but I agree with what Tanya is saying is that I think it's important that our superintendent can go and show his support at this event as well I um trusty wless I would just add that if you could send something to um the principls or assistant principal like whoever is in charge of the event and event planning to basically say that if they want the board to be present to get the first and third Wednesday because I I know I don't want to make it where everybody has to because a lot of people don't want us there so it's just I think it's just because this is their last year and they they had trouble fundraising and a bunch of
088other reasons I think that's the reason why we're getting this request so I think if we take them on a Case by case basis and since I've been serving and coming to these meetings I've not heard a request for us to move our meetings before so I think this is like a one time exception right and I and what you said is correct it got stuck with that day because of all the stuff sure yes trusty not a and I the only time I think I ever missed was once when I was SI I think very proud of this and that's why I never sch1 so I'm kind of a disappoint birthday but I did that announcement a a year before before they even pick dates I said I just want to let you know
089if on this day I will not be so right and I can understand like I said it's something and I'm not not senior I'm just saying though if it's something that like was Major like it was a big issue with school or something but this is something that we have these scheduled we're supposed to keep again I did send out an email asking everybody and they all AG understand the consensus was that it can be moved everybody is fine with it being on Thursday the 20th of March but that was before we knew Derek I didn't know dere could make it you know what I mean okay so now I'm kind of like I don't know you know yeah what about the Tuesday one the Tuesday date no one can make the Tuesday dat and
090I can't that's something I schedule at least but I own six months ahead of time for my dental appointment or why don't we split up why don't we have four here fourum and Corum and three there for board well that's what I'm saying I mean we only need four people you know you want to go fashion so myself Tanya one other person we got four do you have anything to contribute because even if we mooved the meeting up that day to 6 so that we can get out to be there by 7 we still in a situation where W can't make it because of his work schedule so what time does the fashion show start starts at 7 the door is open at 6: oh so start so we could have a make it really
091light yeah we've done meetings that only been 30 minutes what's that we've done meetings where there only 30 minutes months where we' only had one meeting we announce that usually ahead of time though like for graduation year we could we don't have to have six reports five reports know you could have a shortened agenda and just do suit's recommendations so that we are still conducting business all right yes please go ahead no because he can't meet I could probably do 6:30 but I don't I I going to be able to make that time for yeah but we got just make sure we announce that everywhere but yeaha sounds good i' appreciate well isn't here but I'm pretty sure she's okay then we're going to do I need to make a motion to move the meeting
092on March 19th to 6:30 start time yes okay I'd like to make motion you need to ask for a motion you can't make I would like I'm just tell that we follow even though I was told in my board president that I can make a motion so can I have a motion can somebody make a motion so moved make the motion why don't you just say what it is and then ask for okay be it so resolved that the Board of Education approves the time change for the March 19th regular board meeting on March 19th 2025 to 630 p.m. so moved have a motion so moved support moved by trusty wall supported by trusty winless roll call please trusty wall yes trusty Willis yes trusty Anderson trusty dyra yes trusty thini and trusty bowy yes
093motion Carri he District po surprise okay March is reading month thank you to all who are volunteering have volunteered or will be volunteering uh to reading classroom support our book distribution and celebrate March reading month we have many activities taking place the district this month and I know that a lot of you guys participate in that and so I think that that's really cool um I do have the governor's uh Proclamation um speaking to honoring the birthday whereas we're honoring the birthday of one of America's most at admired authors and illustrators Dr Seuss March is celebrated as reading month to celebrate and promot promote the joys and the importance of breeding across our state and our nation and whereas reading plays a crucial role in our lives stimulating our imaginations expanding our knowledge of the
094world and each other and helping us develop essential language skills and whereas reading is associated with Early Childhood Learning and Development as it helps children to learn sounds words and language expand literary skills and develop the ability to focus concentrate socialize and communicate and whereas reading has a long lasting health benefits for individuals of all ages including increased cognitive function memory empathy decreased levels of stress and whereas during this month we encourage each other to read every day spend ample time reading our favorite books recommit ourselves to making sure children and young adults read diverse literary works early and often so they can see themselves and others in what they read and then goes on to State I now there therefore I gret this is from the governor Whitmer governor of Michigan do hereby Proclaim
095March 2025 a reading month in Michigan as Dr Seuss said The more you read the more things you know the more things excuse me the more you read the more things you know the more that you learn the more places you will go I love that and I just want to say thanks to all of our staff members thanks to you guys and all the volunteers to do there's all kinds of things going on this so or this month so thank you for participating in that uh just real quick winter uh Athletics um we had an Allstate wrestler which is pretty hard to do congratulations to Levi Foster who earned All State honors this past weekend at the mhsaa state meet at Ford Field he placed sixth in his weight Division and if you're familiar
096with the sport you can follow every match on track wrestling that's what I was doing this last weekend um because I was following of course our wrestlers Annapolis and then I know I have a friend that coaches in montro has following his wrestlers and so um you could follow all of their matches it is it is tough to place in that tournament I it is very difficult these are the Elite wrestlers from across state of Michigan and so it's phenomenal and as I stated at our last uh meeting we had three that actually made it there just getting there is huge also um the high school's hosting um District basketball this year um last week was the boys and this week is the girls there's big games going on tonight um this is a lot
097of work to um and Brian Buchanan took this upon himself to what you have to do is if in the fall you have to request that you want to host a state event whether it's a district or Regional and the state looks at a lot of different things um a lot of schools don't do this work because it's another night out it's a lot of work um you don't know what could happen with crowds and all that kind of stuff but Brian did take this on um I met the athletic director from gril this morning or this afternoon after school they were coming in and I asked him because he's a seasoned I said how's how's how's our guy doing over here and he said it's been G it's gone very well well they were
098involved both the boys last week and the girls this week so um and the other thing I thought about is we do a lot of and I know that that um Leslie works in the concession stand for those events but it's also another way not just to showcase our school district and our gym and our thing but it's also additional dollars for the fundraisers so I just want to shout out to Brian because a lot of schools just they they just don't do it because it's so much work so so good deal and then the girls wrap up this Friday so there's two games tonight the one's probably over the second one and then Friday are CH champ so that's pretty cool I also would like to acknowledge Ramadan and Eid guitar we're proud to
099share the ways that we are honoring and supporting our Middle Eastern students and their families particularly in observance of e Eid and Ramadan understanding the significance of Ramadan we are implementing measures to support students who observe fasting during lunch each schol scho provides designated quiet areas where fasting students can spend their lunch period comfortably away from the cafeteria this initiative ensures that students have a peaceful environment during the sacred time starting this year we will observe e as an official holiday in our school this dis decision reflects our commitment to inclusivity and allows students and families to celebrate this significant occasion without academic obligations and this goes all the way back to when you guys supported our um new teachers contract that had in the calendar a floating day well that and of course that
100day changes so um on March 31st which is the Monday that we come back from spring break there'll be no school for all students providing an opportunity for the entire Community to acknowledge and respect the importance of Eve while students will be at home that day our teachers will be engaged in Rich professional development we believe these steps will will create a more inclusive and supportive environment for all students we value the rich diversity within our district and are committed to honoring and celebrating will your Muslim um teachers staff be um absolved from attending professional development that day as they should be allowed to celebrate East yes they have that in the teacher contract yep they have the option I hand yep so pretty excited about that and again thank you guys you supported that
101when we developed that calendar and I just think it's a really good way to to move forward so that'll be in starting this year and the next two years moving forward just a quick question with that would they have to make up one of their professional days then uh I I believe it is they could do it virtual oh okay so say so they'd be able to make it up yeah yeah because they do need to get that's a great point they need School District needs to offer so many um professional development hours right so we would make sure that they make that and then another announcement Kindergarten Roundup D7 is excited to announce our annual Kindergarten Roundup is on Thursday April 3rd at 6 o'clock at all of our elementaries so they're putting out
102flyers and brochures and we'll do a phone fan out the week before this is a fantastic opportunity to learn about our young fives inart programs meet our dedicated staff and tour our young fives and kindergarten classrooms enrs currently available online you be able to enroll at Roundup or get help with enrollment if needed there'll be translators available gifts for students and a giveaway for one lucky family please help spread the word we look forward to welcoming new and returning families this fall and we hope to see everyone at the Kindergarten Roundup so this is an early event and we're excited about it I have um one question going back to the open enrollment School of Choice um do we give preference to IND District Families First for kindergarten round up for kindergarten registration yes thank
103you o' I think it's what day April 6 thank you April 3rd at six o'clock in my mind sorry April 3rd thank you okay all right and then just one final note if you do are out and about and you want to bop into the high school this is their spirit week they do every year um if you're in there you'll notice and you'll see my uh Friday update I've got pictures for you guys but a lot of meat activities that are going on at the high school this week um it's part of know they do every year this year's theme is musicals so you kind of get that all in and it's clear to me that um the students put a lot of work a lot of time a lot of effort in this
104event and it's just a great way to bring the high school together so I wanted to mention that and then I just want to thank all those who support our students and support D7 so thank you st part at bus nope can I can I tell you what it's going to do uh will March 12th at 4 o' at the board office March hopefully tentatively March 26 at 5:15 and hopefully I believe everyone can make April 9th at 530 and at that meeting NE will be in in attendance in um with her spring update but I'm trying to schedule as many meetings because we start y oh yeah yeah sorry there's more I have more to say okay so I gave policy um book to um the two policy members and in it you will
105find your zero at those in the you know just it is reading that's why you're having so many meetings right and I would imagine if you can we can at least um first 20 20 to 30 right so I mean when you look at it's a little daunting right right yeah yeah yeah so maybe you can take it inun yes and you know I'm I'm looking to just maybe have hour meetings you know just hourong meetings get through some policies and and get some of it you know some of have any changes any go first wish i' go by her last name because I knew that one a lot better um to Andy kwami and Jen sorry Jen I know you're from 89 so oops from Jennifer finan date is say date of birth date
106is 2025 for creating extraordinary scripts so that the students saw no difference it was most expertly done and it was more than I could have asked for I am forever grateful and Anapolis players send their dramatic thanks no I will tell I'm G to through these Nam this is I my mother about um how she would allti from dat2 you foran oh my gosh what is with PB Dodge and I appreciate and I know I see all his post on Facebook he does an amazing and trusty wall yes trusty will yes trusty Anderson dyro trusty Bowski have a good evening dri