001All right, 7 o'clock. Uh, and call meeting to order. Uh, good evening. This is a regular meeting of the Ferndale Schools Board of Education held April 20th, 2026. Our meeting is being video recorded and will be posted on the Ferndale Schools YouTube channel. All meetings in the Ferndale Schools are held in public in compliance with the Open Meetings Act. Printed documents discussed in tonight's meeting are available to the public upon request with the exception of any information protected by student or employee privacy rights. Board meeting information is posted on our website at www.burndalechools.org. You do not have internet access and need information, please contact the board offices at 2485868652 by Thursday of the week prior to the meeting. District staff will do their best to work with you. Um, Miss Shepard, can we have roll
002call? >> Ryan >> here. >> Kaiser here. Turner >> here. >> President Deliver >> here. >> Thank you. >> We have a quorum. Uh, item 1.2. to approval agenda. Viewing tonight's agenda, does anyone have any uh changes or edits they would like to make? >> I'd like to make a motion to move item four, public comment, up to item two. >> Motion by Vice President Turner, seconded by Trusty. We get a roll call. >> Yes. Turner. >> Yes. >> Deliver. >> Yes. To zero. Okay. Public comment. Anyone here for public comment tonight? All right. Not seeing anything. Public comment will close. uh move on to item three, superintendent update, which tonight will be deputy superintendent's update because our superintendent's voice is uh not really there. So, uh deputy superintendent will uh take this item today.
003>> Absolutely. Thank you. Good evening everyone. On behalf of Superintendent Hibler, um we'd like to recognize our Earl wrestling team who did wonderfully over the course of this season at wrestling. would like to acknowledge um please help me ladies Miss Laney Sha Shia as well as Miss Na Rimes. >> I think people may not know that. >> Okay, >> sounds good. >> Oh, okay. Uh, Mr. Ripin, would you like to vamp for a little bit while we wait for their so? >> Yeah. Well, >> some folks went to the nest. >> I I would like to say that I'm I'm so excited of our athletic department. I know when I became the athletic director, one of the biggest thing I wanted to focus on was improving our girls uh sports teams and I think we
004we've been doing that. We have great coaches, great community. We have a great wrestling community as you guys know uh from our our little our little league that Chief Collins, our former chief of police runs as well with Danny Collins, his son Chevy and uh Coach Quinn who's probably on his way in here now. So that's our coaching that's our coaching team for wrestling. I'm sorry. And well, the great Coach Baser, I'm sorry, people that don't know, Coach Baser uh retired from Ferndale, been in the Ferndale community over 40 years. So, he's been a blessing to us. So, these guys hold down. Uh we're excited for just a facility for them to finally have the new weight room and, you know, half of that is the uh wrestling wrestling mat. So to have these young
005ladies, you know, train hard and be recognized at the state level is monumental in our first year having formal girls wrestling as athletic program. So I appreciate these guys. I appreciate the coaches and all the hard work that the girls put in. And I appreciate Principal Griffin always supporting them as well. She was monumental too with, you know, just being in alignment with me to have girls uh wrestling as well. So, as well as district staff and of course uh Dawn uh director of finance. So, >> yeah. >> Would the team >> Can I get the coach to come up please? Do we have everybody the whole team now? >> Okay. Y get you guys to come up >> ladies? >> Anything? And if anyone would like to say anything um at the microphone, we
006would really appreciate it. We'd love to hear from you. Just the ladies. >> Hello. Hello. Sorry. Um I'm Laney. I am the female's wrestling women's captain. I was also another captain for uh the guys team. Um I was our first female wrestler my sophomore year. That was about three years ago and it's been really an honor just being able to see this uh team grow and become an actual official team and um I can't wait to proudly say that I'm leaving as a senior having started something that will continue on after I'm gone for and um seeing these girls that joined especially our freshman like it's going to be really cool to see how far they get and I've been really grateful to be joined by two other seniors that joined last year, Caitlyn and
007Ireland. Um I think Caitlyn's still on her way. She's going work, >> but uh it's been a really cool experience and I'm glad that um other females will have a opportunity to go through the same thing that I did. >> Anyone else? Thank you, Craig. Um, I'm the uh first girls head coach and um I just want to say what an honor it's been uh to be the uh the girls head head coach. they've heard my spiel before, but we appreciate all the uh support from the Ferndale School District and getting this rolling and uh and also being able to uh for us to be able to um provide success with our uh with our girls. Um we hope that we can continue that into the future. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you.
008Yes. >> So, the girls, we have uh Laney Shay, we have Ireland, we have Allison, Somaya, Shironda, we have Nye over there. Um, and we are missing a couple right now, but uh, Caitlyn um, she hopefully is here soon. And uh um we had a a couple others through throughout the the year that uh weren't able to make it as well today, but um actually Caitlyn's calling me right now. Uh so um yeah, so this is our inaugural uh girls team. So, >> well, uh I mean from all of us, you know, there's only one group that gets to be first. Uh super hard to be the first uh to to make all that happen. So, um, you know, for you all to to be able to to get out there, uh, and do this
009is is really impressive and it's really something from all of us to, uh, be take something really really positive from. Uh, and hopefully, uh, when you come back to your 5year, 10 year reunion and you see this team flourishing, you'll know it's because you all were the ones uh, that made this happen. So, thank you all for really stepping up and showing leadership here. Thank you. >> Great job, guys. >> Is Kaitlin nearby? >> She should be walking in. >> Um, >> yeah. >> The one thing that that I just want to make sure is recognized is that uh Laney uh took seventh in the state. This is a something that is very difficult to do. uh and as a senior her she did an outstanding job and Nye who wrestled for me at club
010levels when she was a little less um she took third in the state as a freshman which is unbelievable and then after the season was over she went to the youth states which you can do as a after the high school season is over and she took third in the state the youth states as well so she she was did an outstanding year >> nice So, let's get a picture everyone with the coaches. >> Principal Griffin, why don't you get a picture? >> Coach, wait. Let's wait for coach. We're going to add all the board members. You smile. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Thank you. It's a great test like delegating Yeah. >> Uh team, you're more than welcome to stay to watch uh board business. Uh but you can also uh not stay
011if you don't want to. So don't feel like you have to stay for the the whole meeting. But thank you all for for coming. Um okay, item three, uh presentation of building trial updates. Uh got four of our principles here. So uh we're going to start with principal Patterson and University High School. Hello. Good evening everybody. >> Good evening. >> Okay. So, um we were here a few months ago, but we have some more data that I just wanted to talk through and give some updates on. So, um the first piece relevant and responsive staff development. Um just some things that we've been focused on recently. Um really is our my kit planning process. Um, as we prepare for our partnership with the state, we really wanted to make sure that we had staff input.
012So, we have spent some of our recent meetings really walking our staff through the my kit process and getting their input. Um, things that are coming up now, we are working on our math curriculum scope and sequence, implementing building thinking classrooms with all staff. Um, starting our partnership with Kaplan so that we can provide some targeted SAT prep for our juniors. Um and also really focusing on pre-ereading strategies across the content area. Um then moving on to the next slide. Um when we talk about um can you move go? Yes. Thank you. Okay. Um reducing chronic absenteeism at UHS. Um we are excited that we now have a new communities and schools representative in place. So, he just started about a week and a half ago, but we're really looking forward to now growing that
013partnership and really being able to um move forward in terms of that. So, getting our tier one incentives really up and rolling consistently and regularly. Um some of the things that we we do our weekly raffles, that's the one that we're really hoping we can get more consistent. Um we give extra graduation tickets, we do attendance recognition breakfast. Um, and then we're really focusing our tier 2 and tier three interventions on our ninth and tth graders. Um, who specifically those who have low pass rates so that we're hoping we can work with those younger students and their families and get good habits with them. Um, we're also exploring, we continue to explore some transportation solutions, including a car pooling app. So, we're looking forward to hopefully launching that in the fall. Go ahead to the
014next slide, please. Thank you. Um, as we talk about suspensions, um, as I talked about it the last time I was at a board meeting, those do sometimes tend to come in clusters. So, we'll go a long time without suspensions and then get a cluster when kind of a interpersonal conflict bubbles up with a group of students. So, um, we continue to really try to partner with our families when those interpersonal conflicts arise. um and make sure that we, you know, we do virtual meetings with the students and their families to try to loop their parents in and get their support. Um, our next Pretty Brown Girls cohort launches next week. So, we're really excited about that. And then we already have it set up that we will launch another cohort in the fall, much
015earlier next year. So, we'll be able to do it in like late September. So, we're really excited about that as well. Um, we have seen some success. We've been running anti- vaping modules. They're um when a student is caught vaping uh rather than jump right to suspension, they have to do a vaping education course. Takes about a half a day. So, they sit in the office and they work on that. And we've seen very low um repeat offenders as a result of that. So, we're looking to expand that. We just are piloting a THC one as well. Um, and we're also trying to look into some something for skipping some um building some social emotional skills around that and doing a course that beefs up those skills as well. Um, next slide. Okay, dual enrollment.
016Um, we have students enrolled in ACE and as I mentioned before, that number really increased this year. We also had those ACE students go around and spread the word with next year's juniors to build excitement around it. We have our first U of M Dearorn dual enrollment group going. So that is exciting. And then we also had Oakland Community College come to UHS to promote dual enrollment outside of ACE. So students who don't want to commit to the full half a day um just taking one dual enrollment class through OC. So we're excited to see how that expands next year as well. Um go ahead to the next slide. AP. So we the last few years we haven't had AP because our enrollment really really dwindled. We were having a lot of seniors dropping AP
017language or AP literature like first few weeks and then the number was dwindling to the point that we couldn't offer it. So we were offering it through CASA. Um we are trying next year to offer AP language with our 11th graders hoping that we get a better uptake than we had with the AP lit with the 12th graders. So we have strong suit student signups for that. So, we're excited to see what that holds for next year. Next slide, please. Um, students have feel like they belong. So, when it when these numbers, if you look at the shift in the numbers, so now it's 79% that has to do with um kind of how we're looking at the data um looking at it in terms of three sections of students who say they belong on
018the panorama test or panorama surveys versus just two sections. But we continue to look for ways to expand their sense of belonging. Our Eagle activity time continues to run every 3 weeks. Um, in fact, we had some students present at a staff meeting a couple of weeks ago on their ideas for expanding Eagle activity. Um, so we were excited to have them share their input with us. Um, we are trying to continue to expand our electives. I feel like that's been a big strength of ours over the past four years, just really expanding. And next year we had enough signups to offer a theater class. So we're excited to add that to UHS next year. Um we're also excited. We recently got Project Rise approved with our sophomores for our crosscurricular class really centered on
019projectbased learning um and the design thinking process. So we're really excited for that and hoping that that also further increases our student sense of belonging. Next one. Um align instructional vision. So SAT is from last fall. Uh and then when we look at our winter um our winter I ready scores we are at 1.4 years advanced so far. So from September to December in reading and 1.5 years in math for 9th grade and then 1.7 years in reading for 10th grade and8 years in math for 10th grade. So that's through December. So, I think we're on a good pathway for the end of the year to be well over a year's worth of growth for our students. Um, go ahead to the next slide. Okay. Um, parent participation in our surveys continues to be low.
020We continue to struggle at that. Um, we're trying to think of ways we can align the window. Right. The panorama window doesn't fall when there's any events, but perhaps for our group group, it could be expanded a little longer so that for example, black excellence, which is really well attended by our families, if the survey window is open during that, perhaps we could have QR codes and get some more um parent responses. Also trying to think of ways we could put the link on social media while still ensuring that it's only parents responding um or families responding. So those are some of the things that we are looking for. Um our results that we got from the families that did respond were very strong. We were above the 90th percentile. Um in several categories, low
021barriers to engagement, family efficacy, and school fit. Um and then we were at the 50 percentile nationally for school culture and 72% of those responses were favorable. So the families that did respond gave us strong results. Next slide. um teacher responses. This time we gave our teachers staff meeting time to respond. So um got a much higher response rate. Most of our teachers um did respond. We scored well in many of the staff categories. We were above the 90th percentile in staff leadership relations, cultural awareness and action, school leadership, teacher self-reflection, educating all students, belonging, teacher advocacy, and professional development. Then we were in the 80th percentile for school culture and the 50th percentile for well-being and growth mindset one. And then in closing, just some recent pictures. Um on the far right side, our
022black excellence celebration um with our new sound system in the gym or in the gym, I'm sorry, in the cafeteria and our new projector and our new screen. It really enhanced Black Excellence this year. So that was really exciting. Um so that's what it looked like. We ran a this was all student led. If you look to the picture just to the left of that on the bottom, uh students came to us and asked to run a holiday bazaar this year where student entrepreneurs um sold goods and services. So that was one of the booths at the holiday bazaar was a student who did nails. Um our NHS has been hosting many blood drives. We I think we think we're up to three a year and we consistently exceed our goal, get community members involved,
023get students involved. So that's the next picture. Um, if you look at the picture above that, our robotics program, we are still kind of a fledgling program. Last year was our very first year, and then this year is our second year, but it was a new robotics mentor who's also a first year teacher. Um, and they were really nervous leading up to competition, but they really did a great job. They finished right in the middle of the pack. They were able to um, solve problems as they rose. So, we were really proud of what they accomplished. And I will say that um compared to some of the other schools that participate in first, right, I know a lot of them have really really big business connections. Our kids are pretty much doing it themselves. So,
024we're very proud of that. And then our track team, our track team continues to just really knock it out of the park, particularly our ladies. So, this is our 4x4. Um they've already qualified for states with their time, so we're excited for them. Thank you everybody. Anybody have any Questions for Benson? Um, is there a spring SAT? >> We already took the spring SAT, so it will we won't get those results until about October. >> All right, next up is Principal Adams with TCC. >> All right, good evening everybody. Hello. So, I've got the TCC trial update 2 alerts there. There we go. Um, so, uh, as of, uh, to date, uh, 44% of TCC staff report PD is relevant in the winter survey. Um, our most recent surveys have, uh, involve state testing and
025data drives. And while they are very important, they are also intense. So, depending on where we got that score at, that might show a little bit of that very intense focus that we have. All right. Um, we did get uh 85% of TCC students in the winter semester report that they do have a sense of belonging. This is something that has been a very big focus of our school for this entire year, implementing fun Fridays monthly. Um, our next one in May will be going to Bell Isle, which we're really excited about. It will be our first whole school field trip um that we've ever done of getting them all going out somewhere. So really uh going to sell that and hope that everybody um is on board with going. Of course we can't make
026them go on a field trip. So we will have some staff uh standing by just in case they want to get uh ahead on their work uh while they are there. So this area is a continued uh focus for us. Um our scores are not where they should be and our participation is not where it should be. So that is definitely a focus that we have. um trying to get those kids to come into the building is a large feat to do. Um and it kind of goes back to the last slide about building that sense of belonging of having a place for them to be here. So that's step one. And then we are also working on improving our I Ready scores. There has been some improvements in the ninth and tth grade from
027the beginning of the year to that winter data. And as Miss Patterson said, we are still working on the SAT and PSAT as well, trying to get that finished up. Um, we only did have nine parents participate in the winter survey data. Um, I did look through it. Um, it is favorable. Um, but it is really too small of a group to action on. Um, we did take a we were able to um it was such a small group that they the panorama was not showing us the um inputting typing small uh phrases that the parents would put in for us. Um but working with Miss Robinson, we were able to get that company to open it up for us so that we could see it. Um we have much higher percentage of uh teachers
028responding to that. We do have uh 10 teachers on staff. Um and the uh we have seen doubledigit increases in all of our areas from last year. Um the lowest one was about 14% and there were a couple 20s, one at a 42. Um but I don't want to get too excited about that. That's a huge increase from year to year. So we'll see where that goes. And we have some pictures here of some of our students attending a um career exploration event and one of our fun Fridays on the right hand side. Any questions that I could answer for you questions? Well, just I I really appreciate you uh trying new stuff u because you know you know what the the big challenge is and hopefully you'll get the silver bullet uh really appreciate
029your practice. Really just push it hard. >> Well, I've got a lot of uh fellow administrators here that I like to steal ideas from. Fun Friday was not. >> All right. We've got Principal Burner with the middle school. >> Excuse my sorry down. It was Adam Sandler day spirit week. So, here's the thing. if you Adam sound you wear oversized clothes but I said this stuff fits so but um thank you all for being here uh I got mine up because I don't have my glass so I take a look at here uh basically what you're going to see from FMS is the action plan that we laid out at our last our first triannual presentation uh we explained some different things that we're going to do and we've implemented those things so current status
030current PD uh survey did indicates that 5500 staff report professional development as uh relevant to their role in practice. So what we did, I met with uh Mr. Maize and I met with my staff, we created professional development committee and so they started last month with their first meeting last month to start uh professional development in alignment with the district moving forward to next year. Some of the things we've already done align PD planning to MTSS goals. Uh one of the things that we would like to do is come to a full AVID school with the support of teaching and learning department. uh myself and and is it three Tom we get three three other staff members are going to avid training this summer which will be extremely helpful. Uh our focus P on instructional
031practice we have a strong focus on small group and data form decision- making which is going to continue that model. We want to stay within two or three goals and keep moving forward. increase opportunity for collaboration through PLC in disruptions embeding our our weekly uh schedule and ensure PD alignment both district priorities and teacherdriven initiatives. Next slide. Okay. And reduce the number of out of school suspensions among middle school students. We have some success here. Fall status 29 male students nine female students were spend as reported myar. Our current status we currently have 54 suspensions out of my 38 students. Year-over-year progress, our total suspensions decreased by 44% and the number of students suspended decreased by 32% with fewer students receiving multiple suspensions. These improvements reflect intentional use of our SST practice, but very intentional
032during SA we call it student success team. Uh restorative practice and targeted behavioral supports from administration and support staff, our in our ego intervention, eagle time interventions. Um, and as we we move on throughout this process, you'll start see the things I'm talking about that's I believe is helping us to reduce these uh infractions. Next slide. Annually increase the percent of FMS students that report that they belong. Our fall data show 55% belong favorably. We're implementing things that we said we're going to do. Uh, winter data results out of 435 student responded. Nearly 68% reported they always mostly feel a sense of belonging FMS while 29% report they sometimes feel belong. So with we use the data to restructure ego time. In the second semester, district allowed us to restructure ego times and implement more
033seal and more one-on-one with supported staff classroom less intervention supports intentionally address student self-efficacy and self- belonging because those were the two highest percentages where students were uh inform us in the pan panorama survey data and then target support throughout the support team process. Uh students needing additional support are intentionally matched with staff and ensure each student has a trusted adult as they feel comfortable going going to us in a time of need. Next slide. Right. And increase the percentage of FMS students that report they have an adult within their school that they can go to for support guidance. Fall panorama data shows that 65 students responded favorably to the statement, I have an adult at my school that I can go off of if I need help. Next slide. And then when we did
034the winter data, out of 435 student assessed, 88.7% FMS student reported having at least one trusted adult at school. We held meetings with our students to because we didn't think they understood the question, right? And after we went to more detail, that data went much more higher. With that being said, uh we were able to find uh 49 students that did not currently identify as trusted adults. through the SST process, we identified those who those students were and we matched them up with support staff members. We felt they either had pre-established relations with to do more weekly check-ins or bi-weekly check-ins. I think that's a huge success. We'll know when we see our numbers in the springtime. Uh we continue to monitor relations to ensure students feel supported, connected over time. Continue work just continue
035to conduct our bi-weekly check-ins with identify students mostly weekly though. uh continues strengthening our adult student relations across all setting whether it's the classroom extracurriculars uh support staff meetings and monitor uh spring panorama data assess progress and just supports as needed. Next slide. Okay. So instead of going through all this data because the the current stats at the data for MSTEP and and uh the PSAT obviously we won't have that information until October but things we've done since then uh since the fall we have maintained a strong focus on datadriven instruction through tier one and two practice including instep PSA testing that included this past Tuesday implementation all year of small group instruction both ELA and math increased use of I ready diagnostic and my path data to targets student needs strengthen eagle time intervention
036structures to provide student uh provide focus academic STL support ongoing progress monitoring and data conference paper with PLC within PLC's and continued emphasis on high expectation of rigorous instruction to all students one thing I didn't place on there we got a last second three quarters of year through we were able to start back on track time I got some pictures for you I was excited so what we did this is what the kids are doing we send the letters out right and I knew I already knew the the game plan. They're not going to take them back to their parents. So, we email them also. But we're ready for full court press. So, we call every single student that did not get a response back and we feel like like 75 80% of our students
037parents signed off on it. We just got the phone like, "Hey, check off. It's good enough for me." So, we had good numbers initially. Our concern was which we found the drop off when you back on track is we're good October through March, but then when spring sport starts, it tends to fall off. not just sports, but the weather gets nice, the kids want to be outside and they want to play around. So, we're fortunate that we felt that we did a deal with the track team today where a handful of students are on the track. And so, unless they had a meet, they're allowed to go to back on track without any, you know, negative push back from the coaches and on off. So, we only got on Monday and Thursday, uh, back on
038track instead of three days a week. That's another adjustment we made. I think the two days out of three is is better for the kids. will get better attendance and that allows them to go to track during other days. But if they have a track meet on a Monday or Thursday, they attend that track. So that was the that was the the give back to our students. Um next slide, please. Uh annually increase the percentage of students increasing one year of growth on the IE benchmark assessment by at least 15%. If you go through the data, you'll see already we see increase. Some is stagnant, but pretty much we're consistently showing growth. But recently we had uh uh I read representative our professional learning specialist out meeting with our our ILT instructional lead teachers and
039it reveals some very encouraging data. In our data analysis we saw a strong growth across baseline placements of more than 75% of students meeting their year-to- date personalized instructional rate uh goals in reading and 95% meeting this goal in math. Your consistent expectations per like March Madness. We got a March Madness determine where the teachers in the classroom are competing against each other to have the highest I ready uh I ready scores are clearly contributing to these results. So this is not from me. This is from the um the professional learning special that came out with our staff. So this is pre-spring data. So we're encouraged to see what's going to happen. We seeing positive movement. All right. Increase participation of unrepresented families by 20%. Again, this is more we moving towards our action steps.
040FS identify underrepresented families by reviewing attendance data, communication response rates, counseling engagement and survey participation, prioritizing families with limited engagement. Again, we go through is even though it's student success team, we also use that with our families as well to make sure that our our team whether it's attendance, truency, our mental health specialist, our uh uh behavior specialist, our social worker, myself, Mr. Ridgeway who's our uh temporary de students to make outreach to these families but we also intentionally making sure as we plan for next year being very intentional with these families during high volume attendance like curriculum night or open night or things I need parent teacher conference get more input from our families >> I apologize >> oh no worries >> lost connection you know >> I got mine >> so got the
041paper I got the >> uh next one Uh this one I think this is a district. Let's see. Let me make sure. Oh yeah. No. Uh by June 30th, 2020, redesign staff climate engagement serve rates with a 75% or higher response rate. Current status 15 staff and 21 27 teachers completed the winter staff survey deflementing game service will be embedded triangularly into our staff. Meaning this approach is intended to increase accessibility and participation by structure time for completion and reinforce the importance of staff voice and decision making. We try to be very our whole school is made up of committees. We work uh within oursel as a team and with the curriculum instruction department as well as miss to make sure that we moving our our teams in the right direction. Next steps redesign survey
042structure. Ensure it is focused, relevant and actionable. increased staff awareness of how survey data is used to inform decisions and improvement with them being a part of PD and everything else. This is it's already embedded in our practices monitor this rates with the goal of reaching 75% or higher use results to guide PD culture and operational improvements. And in closing that's it for FMS. Do I have any questions or comments questions? Um just want to commend you on the data flashlight piece uh to to dig in on you know the kids that aren't seeing the trust results double clicking on that that's uh really well done. So really really appreciate you all going those extra steps. >> Appreciate it. I invite always invite board members stop by unannounced them so you can see things for
043yourself. It's not if you see the support team it'll speak for itself. We have some wonderful staff members. you see the whole team as in general everything that I'm talking about will become a clear you'll be able to see it in action. >> Thank you. >> Right. Last but certainly not least, uh Principal Griffin with the high school. So, we start off with relevant and responsive. I'm sorry. Good evening, everyone. >> Good evening. Um, we'll jump right in. Starting off with relevant and responsive staff development. Um, our winner status is at 42% of staff consider professional learning um as relevant in action. Um, so it's a decrease. It's actually a decrease um from fall which was at 55%. Um consider staff or PD relevant. Um next steps is kind of to do a survey about
044a survey to dig a little deeper. Um find out the why. Um ensuring that they know, you know, kind of like what Dererick said, it kind of depends on when you're given the survey. It's kind of when they fill it out and it also um sometimes distinguish between building level PD versus if it's district PD. So just kind of dig in deeper and find out the why. um work to align the PD to instructional priorities as well as teacher needs. Um that's going to be done by just increasing staff voice and choice. Um and then also once we find out what they're more interested in doing um maybe even trying to to arrange some PD sessions where you do have a choice where you can go into you know different sessions um even at the
045building level so that they'll feel it's more relevant to them specifically. And then it's always great to leverage internal expertise. Um, we already do have some staff members that are presenting the PD. And of course, sometimes it's uh a little easier to hear from someone of your colleagues that's on the same level where you are. Um, and so that's also that um the belief every student must be present, supported, and thriving. So this is our attendance data. 22% of FHS students with 10 or more absences reported in myar 5% um with 20 or more as reported in myar. So the attendance trends um have showed measurable improvement from late winter through February of 2026. Um 5.29% of students have 20 or more absences yearto date and then 22.43 students have 10 or more absences. Um
046we would say that these continued gains reflect the impact of targeted attendance interventions. Um as I discussed earlier in the year um we have grade level interventions and so we have we're using our RP our restorative practices uh coaches to those grade level interventions along with um our community and schools representative and Mr. Grigg. And they're continuously calling um the RPS are doing interventions with the students. they're calling families and they're actually having those meetings with families when it gets to a certain number. Um we continue to keep it as a key area of focus and um keep trying to find ways to improve it. So this is for our uh suspensions. So the goal is to annually reduce the number of out of school suspensions among high school students. Um our winter status is
04722 male students and 13 females were sused as reported in my start. Um while the total suspensions increased the rate at which they uh increased is slowing. So from the span that we had from November to December versus where we are now um of course the number has gone up but that rate has definitely gone down significantly. Um we will continue to take proactive and reflective approach. We will focus on reducing exclusionary discipline um through expanded use of ISS that's in school suspension. I'm going to try to call those out for you guys tonight. Um that's uh and so we really have um built up our ISSs protocol. Um where students are attending those in school suspensions um strengthening restorative practices trying to be really proactive. Um keeping our ear to the streets when we
048hear that things are going on with students. Just getting ahead of any of the drama that's out there. um and and try to take that restorative approach. Um not it doesn't mean we don't do discipline, but it also means we aim to restore them and kind of build up their skills. Um and then we're also implementing um lunch detentions in addition to we do have the after school detentions um and just continue to focus on targeted support from our students and our families. This is our uh dual enrollment information. Um we're currently enrolling in courses right now. So we don't have final numbers um for the 2026 27 year, but I do want to speak to um we too have made intentional efforts to definitely get um the representatives out from dual enrollment. They've come
049in. We actually are inviting, you know, handpicking the kids. Um and it's it was great walking down the hall um listening to some 10th graders engage in their dialogue about the impact and they could see that this is kind of valuable to me and I can actually you know leave out of here with some and it was just really great to hear these 10th graders have this conversation and for that to click and I chimed in and said absolutely why not get it right here when you can get it for free. So um just being intentional about who we invite out to those meetings um and then reiterate to them you know the importance of taking advantage of those opportunities. Um, I also wanted to just state that, you know, of course we want to
050push for dual enrollment, but we also continue to build a strong culture that's focused on post-secary readiness, um, whether it be college or career net readiness. Um, the amount of students applying for college um, has definitely increased and our FASA completion rates are up from where they were last year at this time. Um, if you notice when you're in the commons, all those flags that are all over the common, those are I applied, right? So those are and then they start at the beginning of the year. They're at this the south end of the common but now they've stretched across the north end of the comments. Um and so that's leveraging the resources of our Oakland 80 representative. She's amazing. Um she also focuses big on career readiness. We know that every child is not
051um slated to go to college and some of them don't want to. But I really really hate as a principal when I ask them at you know in the end of May where you going? I don't know. That hurts my heart. And so for those that don't want to do college, we're going to make sure that they get access to um career or future careers as well. Uh we just recently had a career fair where 30 vendors were there. Um and the kids really engaged with them. It was a great thing to see. This is our uh AP enrollment. Our winter status is 224 students that are enrolled. Um, as for course requests for the 2627 school year, there are currently 226. Um, this is a good number. We have a we have a a
052really a decent number of AP um stu students taking courses. However, we just want to make sure that we strengthen that they're prepared for it because sometimes they go into those courses and they'll drop. Um, so we want to make sure that we're increasing the relevance and the rigor and their tier one instruction so that they'll feel more confident about moving into there. And then once we get in those courses, making sure that we have some structures that keep them and support them in those courses. Um, this is our current status of students that feel like they belong. Um, we definitely saw a significant increase in the students reporting a sense of belonging. Uh it rose from 39% in the fall to 72% in the winter. Um I would definitely say is the a result
053of just intentional efforts to build more of inclusive and connected school culture. Um part of that belonging and well the the self-efficacy piece we focused on for as well. Um I think the connection there is that students are doing better as some of the things we implemented such as goal setting frequent goal setting check-ins. I think they're doing better in class, making them feel as if they belong a little more. Um, we definitely continue to I'm sorry to promote um participation in extracurricular so they can kind of find their place. And then celebrating stu student achievements um academically and extracurricular. Our daily news is something that students are kind of getting proud of. It's actually increased our um enrollment in our media class um as students are we celebrate them. So, I think it's great
054for them to see themselves celebrating one another on TV. It's come a long way. It was kind of dry at the beginning, but they've come a long way, and I'm looking forward to the growth in that. This is our um I Ready data. So, we the goal is that at least 15% more students each year exceed one year growth on I Ready benchmarks. Um, as you've heard, we're currently like in the middle. So this is winter data that you see here. Um so while we don't have our end of the year data yet to show if we've done that that measurement of increase, I did want to point out um that due to the intentional efforts that we've had just to build capacity with students and staff. Uh we have seen an increase in just
055the overall amount of students assessed. This is from um winter of last year to winter of this year. So it rose from uh 254 students to 281. And then in math there's a rise from 289 to 322. And I want to note there that we only test 9th and 10th graders. So just you know consider that as happen. So that is not the full uh population. Um so while the end of the year data is not available to determine our annual growth. There's definitely been a positive shift in placement distribution um from beginning of the year to the middle of the year. Um, and what's meant by that placement distribution is less students are at the bottom where they're three levels behind or two levels behind. And if you see it in the I Ready
056color charts, that's the very red and they're moving up. So you see more students in yellow and then an increase of the green which is at the top. So we definitely are able to see that shift uh from the beginning to the middle of the year. Um, just an update on the current spring testing. 100% of 11th graders have taken and taken the SAT. 100% of 10th graders have taken the PSAT and we're wrapping up makeups for PSAT9 when which is formerly known as work keys. Um it measures their um career readiness and then um we're currently in the endstep window as well. So this is um our oh our goal to increase participation of underrepresented families. Um 26 FHS parents uh participated in the winter family survey. Um as all the others have said,
057we just it's that parent participation is tough. Um but we are definitely going to take some steps to try to increase that participation. Um just being more intentional about who's not at the table, like who who are we missing the surveys from and what do we need to do to get them in here? Um lean on relationships. There are some staff members, coaches that may have good relationships with families. So if we lean on those relationships to kind of get them to engage in those surveys, we can get more participation. Uh leveraging our community partnerships such as Ferndale Youth Assistance and Community and Schools to try to get some more of those families in the building. uh capturing voices while families are on campus. I think Julie said that, you know, when we know they're
058there, go out and grab them and you know um sports events, things like that that you know they're coming from to use that as a forum to get those to to get their voices heard. And then be clear, speaking of getting their voices heard, be clear about how valuable their input is. Um so they'll know that their voice really matters. And you show them that based on your input, this is the result of it. I think in the future they'll be more willing to take those surveys. Um this is the staff survey. Okay. So this is uh 24 staff responses which this is an increase um from previous years. Um I would say it is most likely resulting from providing time during staff meeting. So we did the same thing. Um we provided time during
059a staff meeting for them to do it. um there's a positive increase when I kind of drill down into the data um there are nine or 11 topics that they are um assessed on and nine out of the 11 topics you saw an increase um a positive increase where um some of those I didn't list them all but growth mindset self-reflection school leadership school climate um while there was a decrease a decrease in um professional learning and teacher efficacy so again there's something going going with the PD thing. I see a correlation there. Going to find out what it is. Um, interestingly enough, um, teaching efficacy means how well do teachers think that they can do their jobs. That's the that's the definition of, you know, teacher efficacy. So, it's interesting. Something's going on here.
060So, um, I would be doing a little more research to find out what's there. Um, so we're going to continue to protect that time for completion. Um, simplify the survey. Um, some of the staff did report that it was redundant and long, so simplifying the survey. And I don't see what the last thing is down here. >> Focus on areas of decline. >> Yeah, focus on those where we see those declines that focus on those areas. Yeah. >> And that's it. Um, are there any questions this evening? >> Questions from the board. Um, I love the flags. before our retreat, I was just reading every single one. So, that's great. I have some just general comments for you all. Um, first off, like if you'd asked me a year ago at the board, like what
061was the most the thing that's I know the most would be how hard their jobs are. I'd say after three and a half months at this now, like knowing how hard your jobs are. Uh, sort of getting getting that insight. I don't think anyone sees that uh in the public. Just want you to know how appreciated you all are uh of just how much stuff you all have to deal with. So greatly appreciate that. >> Thank you. >> Um if you would ask me do I want the PD numbers to be up or down and if I can get one then the kids feeling has to be the other way. I'd like it where like the kids are feeling more uh uh part of this uh and you know you all figure out but you
062all had the same trends, right? So, uh there might be a macro thing as well, uh of just, you know, it's time of year or something like that. So, you can all all figure out that piece. Um the thing for all of you, I'd say is now we're like a year into this process to just like zoom out and just make sure like we're measuring what matters, right? So, we're using your time the best way. It's showing the data that we want to see. Uh because we should continue to evolve this as as things go. Um the only idea I had as you guys all were showing good stuff was um I was talking with Deputy Superintendent Wright about the the June fair. I don't want you to cuff this. You have enough stuff in
063May and June going on uh with all the stuff. But a way to like show the great things happening at uh secondaries because like all the parents are just walking around here with kids who have no idea just to at least be able to, you know, be able to market some of this stuff and show some of the the really great stuff happening. So, uh if we just hold the booth and get questions or something, but want to be able to like communicate that as, you know, these people are starting to think about just their future in Ferndale as well. So, yeah, great stuff. Thank you. >> All right. Uh, back on track. Item five, consent agenda. We have four items on the consent agenda. 5.1 is request to approve minutes of the special meeting
064of committee of the pole, Monday, March 2nd, 2026. 5.2 Two is request to approve minutes of the regular meeting of Monday, March 16th, 2026. 5.3 request to approve new hires, resignations, and transfers. Item 5.4 request to approve bills, accounts of March. I get a motion to approve the consent agenda. >> I'll second moved by Trustee Kaiser, seconded by Trustee Turner. Any discussion? All right. Can we get a roll call? >> Yes. >> Turner? >> Yes. >> From >> Yes. 4 Z. That passes. All right. So, item 6.1. Request to approve the Ferndale firewall replacement project. Good evening. Yes. So, we have uh tonight for the board for your consideration is the firewall replacement - project. Uh we discussed this at the last day of the whole meeting earlier this month. Uh kind of a recap
065of it. Oakland schools issued a request for proposals for firewall hardware software installation services through the federal government program. Um on behalf of the 15 supported districts and Oakland schools, uh the Oakland school security team reviewed the existing solutions of re research the current market, the new specification took into the account the district's needs and growth capacity uh to accommodate the next five to seven years for our district. Uh Oakland schools received a total of six bids and then we are recommending Delta Networks for this firewall replacement project and their solution was a replacement of our current forigate firewall with a new version of the Portugate firewall 701g. Uh this the funding for this project is coming out of the technology allocation portion. Any questions for Andrew? Motion to approve uh item 6.1 request to
066approve the per nail firewall replacement project. I'll >> move second. >> Move by Vice President Turner, seconded by Ryan. Any discussion on this topic? Right. Mer roll call. >> Turner. >> Yes. >> From Ry. >> Yes. >> Kaiser. >> Yes. >> President Deliver. >> Yes. Board zero passes. Andrew still 6.2 request to approve Ferndale High School auditorium technology upgrades projects. >> Yeah. So for your next consideration is the Ferndale High School auditorium upgrades. Uh this project consists of various technology components uh related to technology functions the performing arts center at Ferndale High School which is under construction this late spring and then over the summer. So we're kind of following construction footsteps. A number of bid protection mandatory alternates were included in this bid and then we received a total of seven bids. Then after
067we reviewing them with our internal technology team and our technology fond consultants which is IDS uh we are recommending advanced lighting and sound for this project with mandatory alternate number one and then voluntary alternate number two. Uh their solution included but not limited to SH model microphones, Allen model digital mixers, Sony digital displays projectors. Uh the funding for this project as well is the technology allocation portion. Any questions for Andrew again? >> Motion. Uh motion by Trusty Kaiser, seconded by Trusty Turner or Vice President Turner. Any discussion? >> Yes. >> Uh roll call. M >> from Ryan. >> Yes. >> Kaiser. >> Yes. Turner. >> Yes. >> President. >> Yes. Zero. That passes. Thank you, Andrew. Appreciate you hanging out. >> Of course. >> All right. Item 6.3. Request to approve Oakland school's IST budget
068resolution. Uh I will take this one. Um so open schools um sends their budget to each individual school district um to review. Uh we have opportunity to uh ask any questions. At the committee the whole we uh briefly discussed the one of the big changes being the AI coordinator that they're hiring but not necessarily an AI implement more of a person to build a plan to build a thing and uh that the technology likely will be moving much quicker than the county is able to have space but everything else pretty pretty much there. Um the uh county requests that we uh either put a motion to support the budget or put a motion to uh disapprove of the budget the language that they give us. Um so need a motion to either support the budget
069or to disapprove the budget. >> Um to support the budget. >> Okay. Uh motion by Vice President Turner, seconded by Trusty Kaiser. Any discussion? Right. Roll call. >> Kaiser. >> Yes. Turner. >> Yes. Four to zero. >> All right. Item 6.4. Request to approve board resolution three for bond sale. >> Superintendent Ray, you gonna lead this one? >> Sure. Absolutely will. Um, so how uh quickly time flies, right? >> Um, so we're at um we're at the beginning of series $3, um, of the 2020 bond. Our financial advisor at PFM believes this is the optimal time to sell our bonds. Um, the district stands to u receive 37 37.4 I'm praying for uh yeah 37.5 million this summer. Um and so just based on the market um uh PFM is recommended that we sell our
070bonds at this particular time. So if you recall series $3 will be used towards um our project at Ferndale High School Middle School campus along with um coupled with the 2025 bond series. So tonight's res recommendation is forward resolution for self questions for superintendent right? Can I get a motion to approve resolution for bon second moved by trusty Kaiser seconded by trusty coverine. Any discussion? Shepard call. >> Yes. Turner. >> Yes. Pass four to zero. Uh item seven, board updates. Anyone from the board any updates they would like to provide to the public? All right. I'll throw out uh hopefully this week we'll be sending an email out inviting everyone uh that would be interested in u starting a new foundation to support carnell schools. Uh it's something that we are talking about for a
071while. Uh really important for the future. Uh so hopefully we will have the date location but that will be coming up shortly. Um and uh yes, right item eight,formational items. Uh budget uh actual report. Uh unfortunately, Don is probably having a great time at the conference, but unfortunately for us, she's not here. Um but right can answer uh any questions that anybody has on the budget actual. Any questions? >> No. All right. Great job. substituting it. >> Um, all right. Item nine, consideration of any pool of consent agenda items. We had none. Item 10, the next committee of the whole meeting will be Monday, May 4th, 2026 at 6 o'clock p.m. Item 11, the next regular board meeting will be Monday, May 18th, 2026 at 7 o'clock p.m. And item 12, Eagle Points of Pride
072and Comments. Um, I'll start. Uh, President Diver, you mentioned this a bit, but I just am really pleased to see so much growth in the numbers around student belonging. Um, student belonging is probably the foundation of student success in our schools and and some of those increases were just staggering. So, it's really and and where it wasn't, I'm really proud of the work we're doing at, you know, getting targeted supports for our students who are feeling a little bit less like they belong. So just really proud of the work around >> me. It was a spring retreat. I mean, one thing I got out of that is just I'm just really excited to see what the school, the district as a whole looks like in the coming years. Really got shacked up. That's pretty exciting.
073>> I've got two. >> Oh, well, we're missing three people. >> I will allow it. >> Thank you so much. special exception tonight only. >> Um so first quick one is that Earth Day is coming up. One of my favorite holidays. Um so if you guys get a chance, please pick up a p a piece of trash or any litter that you see on the ground to help keep our earth clean and sustainable. Um but the second one is this week is I want to say it's the same day, it might be the following day is school bus driver appreciation day. So, I just want to call a shout out to our bus drivers and thank them for all the work that they do in ensuring that our students get to our get to their
074schools safe and sound. Um, it's not just important for transporting them, but they are the ones who see our kiddos first thing in the morning and the last thing at the end of the day. So, I just want to say thank you for everything that you do for our students. um go a little off topic, but uh uh I know this one firsthand, but uh could have communicated some policy issues a little bit better uh in the middle school this week. Uh but what was great was seeing all of the sixth, seventh, and eighth grade girls uh basically rally together and be like, you're you're not communicating post the correct way. Uh so really great to just see like you know you know students kind of getting together and uh you know pushing back when
075they were right. So I mean it was just a good uh cool thing to see if like these are the kids that are going to be the future leaders here and just like uh all that type of stuff going. So it was nice uh wish we had not but we did uh and we ended up at a good place. All right. Uh, item 13, request to go into close session to discuss. >> Oh, I'm sorry. You >> That's okay. >> I was nervous about saying, so that's why you don't ask. >> Okay, I'll get going. I'll get going. Um, from our superintendent, a big thank you. Administrative professionals day is coming up on April 22nd. Right. We also want to shout out teacher appreciation is coming up. That's a big week. Um, and then my
076eagle pride is going to be um, but I'm so excited for the bond work this summer and I had an opportunity to meet with and I was telling um, board president about meeting with the softball and the baseball coaches. Um, so that work is underway. It's a minor inconvenience in the parking lot at Ferndale High School Middle School, but uh we've mobilized and um the coaches know like it's real, right? So, we're just super excited. Just want to thank the community again for their support. >> Uh Superintendent Hibler is Oh, she's okay. Good. Um, okay. Item 13, uh, request to go into close session to discuss negotiations update and with Superintendent Hibler, Deputy Superintendent Wright, and Mr. Shelton. I get a motion. >> I'll move. >> Second. >> Moved by Vice President Turner, seconded by
077Trusty Kaiser. Uh, M. Roll call. >> Yes. Yes, we are uh moving to close session at 807.