001the United States of America to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all good evening everyone thanks for coming uh this is the March 3 regular school board meeting of the Becka School District um we will start off with a presentation from middle school student council presented by Miss Boer good evening everyone thank you for having us here first we are going to go and introduce everybody miss Boyer principal Kevin beer assistant principal Ali Adelman seventh grade President Johnson president Kim handelin I'm the media assistant and student council advisor then we will get started you have the power Pres station in front of you correct that you can see your student council information on we share that with you and we're just going to talk a
002little bit about our student council we're excited to be here um every excuse me month we are asked to have um one of the buildings come and present and this month we figured Mr Beer and I figured that we would turn it over to the students um to have their voice to be able to be used uh Miss Kim has been a phenomenal addition to the student council pres or oversee the adviser she's done amazing job with our student council and so we're fortunate to have her here with us as well and so what we're going to do is have um hiy and Ry talk a little bit about what they're doing currently with student council so the came products we've done we have made Christmas cards and hats for The Shepherd of Grace um
003we made Valentine's Day cards for The Shepherd of GRA and then for the food we did like a we did like a point system and then like make it F and we the don't go to the food sh and then we did a toys for to drive um we do a bunch of School playing we do uh we plan the activity nights that we do we plan Spirit weeks and dress up days we plan um our like winter and spring pet fests and we also do hat dayss so they're saying just a little bit about what they do they have done so much work over the last few years their voice has become um just a huge part of our school and I really appreciate the work that all of them done have done recently
004Miss Kim has really led the cause for that and these two individuals the co-presidents have done just great great things for our building so I appreciate the work that they do and and continue to do to build their school culture within our building um other areas that they have helped out with want to talk about that miss Kiss sure yeah well our student council has grown quite a bit I would say we have about 50 students at this point um some attend every meeting some attend when they can um the staff has been Amazed by them I hear comments all the time so they ask will our student council help out with um the fundraiser distributions and with career day they helped out um they helped out with unity day just anywhere that they can
005help out they they love helping in the school um these two ladies here have been phenomenal the leadership skills that they have shown over the last couple years amaze me every day when something needs to get done they immediately Step Up um and I know I can always count on them to lead the group they're they're amazing leaders any questions about student council when do they meet every Tuesday at 7:30 okay early morning yeah I think just what they brought the culture and um the climate within our building I think has been a huge significant change and we really appreciate that kindness week um they were welcoming people at the door um they had people stationed there and they have pretty much a system set up and so anything that we need we ask for
006and um Miss Kim is willing to go back to the group and talk about it and see what we can do we're really trying to bring for those of you who remember in Middle School we're really trying to bring that student voice more and more um at at that Middle School level to be able to let them be heard um on just things that they want to discuss and and look at so we appreciate the work they've done congratulations how does one become a member of student council um for a member of student council we do your advisory like we do it every triy but we're working on next year to have like one person every just the whole year instead of have everybody go in each tribe so you'll have your advisor and you'll
007have like Representatives that go up and they'll um basically like give a reason why they want to be your student council um like why they want to be your representative and then if they do get chosen they end up going to the meetings and then every Tuesday morning they tell their class or they write it on the Whiteboard to tell them what's actually happening C what brought so you right now have like a revolving group okay wow and Rowing I mean they have they want to be in student we have a lot of people that show up at 7:30 at the door drop them off they want to be there and even though it is revolving these two have been they've stayed so Mariah showed up that very first meeting which was also my very
008first meeting when I took over the student council and we've been together all three years she's been at every meeting um same with hie they've stayed yeah good job we're really pleased we're really happy what um quick question too um thank you all for putting this together um you know this is a lot of valuable skills that you're going to use you know starting from now throughout your whole life what are some things that you do to talk to your fellow students to get them involved in the program and maybe involved in some of the activities that you guys plann because looks like you've done a great job planning those activities so how do you get your peers involved in all that what you Dan do is morning announ what's going on and we also
009make like posters and put them like around the school so like let everyone know what's going on and they put together the slideshow too for the presentation to ni well done awesome very good thank you ladies so good so proud of uh just a couple extra slides that we incorporated into the slideshow tonight um in regards to the middle school one was about um last year we presented on our date classes and our change in our schedule and as everything else that happens it always evolves and changes and I think um with Mr Beer being added on this year he's been able to look at it at a different um lens as well so we've been um bringing in some different things but I I want to I I believe that this has been a
010great shift in our building and in our school um there's just they're really small but if you blow it up and you're able to look at it there's some pretty cool um the classes that are being offered uh that they are looking at um teachers are providing we have a huge hit this um this next time we had uh Mr Zimmer has um Pro is going to provide some engineering class for sixth graders for the first time um so Mr Zimmer is so excited about working with sixth grader and then I'd say that in a really happy way and then um there's just some other areas that we've had we've had money Basics um yoga and mindfulness has been a big one um that's been a huge hit we're actually excited um Miss Polly actually
011is here and she's going to be beautifying our Courtyard area um that's a len between the Middle School and the high school she came up with some really great ideas um and that's outdoor working um different skills on beautifying our Courtyard area that's the the link um the door that we have to make sure can be unlocked from the from inside the courtyard so um we're just really excited about the different things that we're offering to the students um if you can see real life experiences in regards to our exploratory classes I think just adding to you know the student voice piece to uh right before a Christmas break part of an advisory lesson was having students plan a six week dig course um and submit their ideas so um you know we found what
012students are interested in and shared those with staff so if they thought hey this is a good lesson I can run with this and and plan a a dig class with what the students were sharing of their interest so um that's how our Pokemon dig course started so we had a six week dig course with Pokemon and so listening to student voice with planning some of those dig classes as well so we're pretty excited I know um chess prage Checkers um a variety of different things and they've evolved like teachers are finding as they're teaching a class it evolves and kind of gives the students an opportunity say hey while we're reading this book could we create some artwor along with it and so that it has evolved over the years um we have weightlifting
013classes that are huge hit with our seventh and eighth graders we do not allow sixth grade right now just age- wise but um seventh and eighth grade are um providing weightlifting classes and just a variety of other things with the CNC router that Mr Zimmer is doing with coasters for um for students and our goal is eventually to look at the possibility of even selling some of these items that students are making crocheting is a another hit that kids are doing just the things that they work on so we're excited that um it it's a lot of work it took a lot of time um creating the schedule but I feel that um you know through the process that we're doing and hearing students but also teachers um it's been a great transition for our
014building any questions it must get easier now that it's in place though it's just you got the routine it's just changing out what's happening and shifting and building and growing I think that's the part like even having Mr Beer come in with a different lens on what he he sees and what um different ways that we can make it work we also provide um for sixth and seventh grade and this is a teacher voice um they follow with dig classes we had U four days dig dig class and then we have the fifth day is a guided study H so we're now we're providing opportunities for students to finish up Works get some additional assistance if they need to do some fortim or Sumit so that was a shift rather than five days a week
015we transition to four days and then a guy did study hall so where do the funds come from like the coasters and the crocheting where does all that that come of your just the general that your well we do fundraising okay we do fundraising we have a lot of these like with The Coasters it's extra wood um we have like with the the croche so people have donated the Pokemon was a huge one that um our Miss Miss Krug said our choir teacher actually reached out to a community of Pokemon people and so they brought in a lot of card I mean she was able to get tons of cards so it's Community has provided um items people have donated along with fundraising so yeah pretty amazing on what our community can do very very
016impressive just the the sheer number of options that you put together and the money Basics one I think that one's huge so enjo excellent yeah thank you very much thank you so much thank you okay moving on to reports we will start with student reports yeah so since most of the sports are kind of wrapping up this one won't be too bad I don't think all right in the past month the girls hockey season ended with a record of seven and 19 they lost in the section quarterfinal against M Mound westonka Mound West Christian dance ended off their season strong with a finish of eighth place for kick and 10th place for jazz at State they celebrated the seniors and accomplishments at their end of season banquet last Thursday robotics had their first competition this
017weekend the robot did well and the team won the impact award qualifying them for the world championship in Houston in April boys basketball is currently 16- 10 with their next game on Tuesday archery had their first family archery day they had bounce houses in the Fieldhouse axe throwing shooting and lots and lots of food and other games student council is working on coming up with new projects and fundraiser speech just finished their sixth meet at Sock Rapids High School with their best team results in years Deca is currently at their state competition they are competing for a chance to go to ICDC at Universal Studios the gymnastics team recently ended their season with a second place finish at their section Me overall was a very competitive season with tough competition Boys Hockey had a great
018season The Varsity finished their season nine wins 16 losses two ties while JV ended with 16 wins five losses three ties wrestling just finished up their season this last weekend the team ended up taking third in the state beating simly in the third and fourth place match for individuals Kaden Nicholas and Landon quava took first Kaden winning his second State title Bennett quava took fourth Boston kushel took third and Owen Angel took fifth Owen tied the school career pin record with 100 pins recently GSA has been Focus focusing on how they can promote the group more and gain members they talked about various different ideas such as making GSA pins they also went through the dress code and determined different parts of it debating if certain points are applicable or not your book finished up
019their second deadline this one being the most Pages submitted in one go and NHS has completed more individual service projects and is wrapping up their state service pro project which is a clothing drive and in the upcoming month the girls basketball team is ready to start working hard in the off season and the next few years are looking bright for them the robotics team will be redesigning part of their robot before their next competition in four weeks boys basketball is in their section meets and are hoping hoping to go far archery has stayed coming up soon student council will be planning Spring Fling over the next few months this year they hope to do more fundraising so they can spend more money on activities for the student body speech is looking forward to their next
020competition for the next month of prepping for sections Deca has seven competitors with six in more than one event yearbook will be starting the spring supplement with features sports activities and this year's promp and NHS is getting ready for State Convention which is at Hibbing High School this year junior junior Olivia durus is running for secretary any questions new congratulations on the robotics more fundraising coming your way ex um can you real quick speak to I know you had set up in the um auxiliary over at the ECF building had some teams up there can you give us a rundown on how that went um yeah it's actually it's super exciting I think we're planning to come in and present hopefully in about two months on that but we ended up as a team spending
021about 20 grand on a field that is set up permanently right now in that side of the gym in the stem Center um it's been awesome we have hosted three week zero events so each event has had about 12 kids so probably upwards of two to 300 students and that's been the last two weekends before this past one we were also able to visit the steam night so that was exciting we were able to bring our robot over and show them that and then bring kids over to the field and run a robot through Cycles it was exciting we the the field is open to other teams too so if you guys over there and want to stop by and see the robot we there pretty much every night as well as St Michael's been
022there almost every day for the last two weeks and we're having monell over a lot too so all services we're providing for free but Field's very expensive so lots of brainstorming for new fundraisers awesome aome thank you so much all right superintendent report it's there for you guys to follow along um MCAS will be going on March 5th through May 9th we'll have a final fast Bridge assessment that have been ongoing throughout the year and will end around May 9th March 26 is region six day at the capital Jeremy's been busy at the capital testifying bring more jobs and opportunities to Becker through increasing our tax base that's being lost through the decommission of sherko in addition he was able to testify the senate for our tax reimbursement bill um finally Jeremy was able to
023share our thoughts on how we could best Implement Paid Family Medical Leave bill for the schools to limit the financial impact and cuts to Staffing with more support from the state um some bills that are particular interest that have been discussed the last couple weeks include the following I'm not intended to be a complete list of the bills introduced each week but rather B bills that are aligned with the priorities Senate file 1254 increase um funding what local option Revenue to 920 per pupil as part of the tail what's it at now Kevin do you know it it's at 724 right now um raising that to 974 per pupil in the first 250 per pup provided entirely by the state aid additionally a bills and draft form aiming to boost the revenue to 9 974
024this proposal emphasizes improved Equalization indexing the per pup amount to the formula inflator these proposals are significant as they affect both the per pup revenue and the structure of state and distribution roof repair and long-term facility maintenance bills house file 51 and Senate file 1198 these bills aim to address our District's infrastructure needs by establishing or modifying funding mechanisms for rof repair and replacement projects house file 1028 Senate file 1612 are those proposed increased funding for school districts addressing areas such as general education basic formula allowance special education cross subsidy Aid English learner cross subsidy and safe schools Revenue it also seeks to adjust the equalization aid for Debt Service levies local option revenue and operating referendums Additionally the bills aimed to link extended time Revenue to the general education basic formula allowance and modify
025compensatory Revenue eligibility eligibility criteria um other bills of Interest I don't have any background on this but they're listed there um Algebra 2 language assistance and combinations adds to student members to the school board which would affect us um various meetings held on the read act libraries teacher appren programs and local bills VPK eligibility do know what that is voluntary prek pre okay um CTE funding would be wonderful to get more of that in our schools um Capital project referendums by board vote and the last one is funding for the unemployment insurance Jeremy's also been president at the capital for bills related to the Becker school district Community or the region uh house file 28 the emergency generator backup Senate file 70 sales tax rebate for Becker Public Schools that's the one that he was
026working on last year that some school got but not all of them and house file 11 Minnesota Paid Family Leave law delay important upcoming dates March 6th is updated budget forecast week of April 14th is Easter and Passover break May 19th is constitutional adjournment date and June 30th is the end of our fiscal year Masa and Mase spring conferen is March 20th to 21st Harland Germany are registered and plan to attend the conference it's also the same day as the American Indian education conference where we will have staff members and our aoch chair attending if you're planning attending a graduation on May 30th in the evening please let Angel know graduation is expected to take place at 7 pm on the turfield arrival would be around 6:30 sure hopefully it'll this year prepared right so
027um that brings us to item 2B the matter you matter video so Carly you want to I think there's some appearances about back same here you're on there good you did a good job it's time time to come together time to stand up time to speak up together we can become one voice One Voice One Voice our one voice can become the UN voice for public education we know it could be a challenge to see the connection from the Board Room to the classroom please know that by being a school board member you make the world a better place thank you thank you thank you for helping me too build for my future get ready for my career prepare to serve my country to succeed on the court in the science lab and on stage
028you are a role model for kids like me we need your voice to help strengthen our voice being a school board member can be a thanless job but I see you we see you making hard decisions on our behalf having to make tough budget decisions being questioned by community members getting questioned on social media and defending our schools against bad information thank you for standing up for us we need your support because our state's future is at stake we need your support because people need to know that great things are taking place in public schools in Minnesota my future is at stake we need your voice to help strengthen our voice there's more that unites us than divides us so let's come together in cities big and small rural communities in big school districts and
029and small no matter where you serve across the state of Minnesota you want what's best for future Generations you want what's best for us if not you then who our one voice can become the unifying voice for public education be one voice be be one voice be one voice be one thank you Carla um item 2C committee reports uh Corey I believe you have track and curriculum just a quick track update on our next meeting so our next meeting is gonna be already this March March 18th uh if anyone is interested in joining that meeting to hear an update and participate in the discussion please reach out to assistant principal Bon and he can get you that information in the login it will be virtual again our curriculum meeting we did meet on February 3rd
030so our last Schoolboard meeting just wanted to put some things together for that first off kind of some interesting information our K2 reading curriculum update there were some teachers they kind of brought some concerns along with their new program that they selected wit and wisdom um the Carlo did a great job facilitating back and forth with the vendor and they got some good answers uh as they're going through this um just with some changes some things that were maybe not noticed not shared correctly in the time that they selected it um but they kind of work in with that the decision was made by the committee that in starting next year 25 26 school year that they'll be switching to art and letters it's through the same vendor uh but it's got a little bit
031more of a better timelines it's easier to navigate for the teacher guide and it just seems like it's more of appropriate story so overall I think the staff is feeling really comfortable with where that direction is going so that's nice so thank you Carla and that team for pushing that forward uh just the K5 math curriculum implementation is on hold until the new standards come out uh that should hopefully be here in about two years they're just going to working on those staff is looking at Best Practices that they can Implement right now to as they are moving forward with those um standards that they're going through and then our next meeting is May 5th so if anybody wants to join that as well you can reach out uh to our director of construction Carla
032Nolan and we can get you information on that all right any questions for Cory on that Pete you have activities in a policy yeah uh jump into policy first um again we continue to kind of cycle through our policies and and get the uh new language um that continues to come in from the state um we talked about uh four specific policies at this at our last meeting uh policy 519 um interviews of students by outside agencies um basically just sets up you know some protections guidelines on how students can interact um with those uh policy 614 um school district testing plan and procedures um again uh just termination uh terminology changes and updates to the language in that one as well um policy 701 establishment um and Adoption of School District budget um and
033again just lines of authority and procedures on how um the finances and and the budget are put together and and uh policy 721 uh uniform G uh Grant guidance and again that was just um again to make sure we're in compliance um and how we distribute and get these grants that come in then finally we did um Jeremy did bring in I think this might be later in the um when we get to the policy section about uh policy 103 which is our formal complaint policy um Jeremy had started working on a more uh reliable form that people could actually fill out for that so um yeah so that was uh that was policy meeting all right any questions for Pete all right we see three of those policies on the agenda later on all
034right moving on to item number three consent agenda I will entertain a motion oh activities well yeah activities um did meet uh on February 24th um went again over um kind of the team captains we've been kind of talking about do we want more a more uniform approach to um and put age limits and maybe you know what grades you can be on um so we did make some changes to that that'll probably be coming out in the next handbook or at least getting a look at um ideally a team captain may not always wording on it a team captain may not always be the most skilled individual but does demonstrate an ability to lead and shows a level of dedication immaturity uh within the activity and outside of the activity um so again Captain
035supposed to meet all the leadership um standards and then there was a timing issue where they wanted to make sure that um all those standards there wasn't any back uh maybe possible disciplinary actions where they were on there to when they can actually announce it because a lot of coaches want to announce that right away so there was a time limit put on that um so that was that um we're going to continue to do the best we can to hold activities off on Wednesdays um as far as games and stuff um you know Wednesday is an important um day in the community where you know there's church and there's other activities going on so um there was one event that was scheduled for Wednesday um and Dave is working with the other schools to
036see if they can get that rescheduled so it sounds like that's gon to happen um and then just an update on the uh anadale lacrosse um Co-op um that has been officially put on hold to do some more research on anadale side of things so there there there does seem like there is some interest but the short timeline that would have had to come together to make something happen this year just wasn't feasible but um they're going to continue to have an open Dialogue on that and we'll see where that takes us then of course we talked about pry much everything that the story on Sports so was good meeting right thank you now moving on item number three consent agenda make a motion to accept I'll second we have a motion to accept consent
037agenda do we have any questions or discussions on it all those in favor say I I I all opposed motion carries brings the item number four resolutions of accepting donations I'll make a motion to accept the donations in front of us I'll second that any questions or discussions on donations just want to thank the Becker Lions two big donations again small list big amounts though yeah yeah y okay all those in favor to accept donations say I I I all opposed motion carries brings us on to item number five 25 26 school year calendar um you can see there that the calendar committee has been communicated with and provided feedback um calendar requirements and guidelines there we need to have 183 teacher days we need to have two half days before open house two full
038grading days for all teachers instructional hours meet or exceed the minimum required instructional hours um kindergarten 850 grades 1 through six is 935 7 through2 is 1,20 hours um student contact days provide at least 165 contact days for students grades 1 through 11 and trimester consistency to maintain trimester length to that 56 to 59 days throughout the calendar um key considerations in planning uh holiday scheduling aligning the holidays with the weekends um create longer breaks where possible staff developments strategically distributed professional development days throughout the calendar with a preference for Fridays over midweek days but also align the collaboration with neighboring schools in addition we are still doing PD on letters it's still letters right yeah um in climate weather one no school day five e-learning days additional days would need to be made back
039up as necessary and then you can see all the stakeholders feedback there um additional considerations for the discussion um and then the attached is the 25 26 Calendar what it will look like next year so I don't entertain them motion to accept calendar I'll make a motion to accept the calendar as presented second do we have any discussions on that the heavy lifting talk about a lot of moving parts to put that I mean possible to make everybody happy obviously yeah you can't but well you can see there the calendar requirements like we're pretty strapped we're not I mean we're right up on it on hours for high school kids so we there's not a lot of movement you got certain options yeah they Falls work FS so all right all those in favor accepting
040calendar say I I I'll oppos motion carries brings this item number six policies up for second reading um policies 208 development adoption implementation of policies articles five subdivision D allows for minor changes that do not affect the substance or policies or because of a legal change over which the school board has no control may be approved at one meeting um so there we have policies 519 614 701 and 721 those are the very policies that Pete was just speaking of um so I will entertain a motion to accept those policies I'll make a motion to accept what policies as listed second goad sure okay we have a motion to accept policy as written before us do we have any discussions or all those in favor say I I I opposed motion carries and then the
041last thing on the item is uh the first reading um this is the form policy 103 a form for complaint student employees parents and other persons um it's a new form created to help streamline complaints identify what specifically needs to be investigated um I suggest you look it over read through it we've dealt with some of these issues in the past two years so it's a form kind of based off of things we've learned like how do we streamline this process so we know exactly what is to be looked at or investigated or what's being questioned um it is a form doesn't have to be filled out but Jeremy and I talked that even if the form is not filled out and a complaint comes in most likely him or his office will go through
042that form with a complaint and make sure it's kind of filled out so that when it comes we know what the exact complaint is sure so I suggest you read that give Jeremy any feedback that you have on that or questions you have on that so it is a new form not a replacing of something okay yep the new format just through things that have happened in the past I guess people back four years say yeah we should have this written down somewhere so we know exactly the process to make sure we have a process that's followed and the form is there so we know how things are done so yeah formal process for that makes a lot of sense right y so get the word out to everybody on how to do it as
043well cly not it's definitely overdue so right any other business bring item eight this meeting is adjourned thank you all for coming