001this meeting to order at 5:'m. This is a regular schoolboard meeting of the Tri City United School Board. Tonight is Monday, February 23rd and we are located at TCU High School Media Center. Uh, pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you. A roll call finds all present except Josh is absent this evening. Um, next up, employees of the month. All right, let me bring that document up. >> Yes. >> All right. You want to name them and I will share a little something about >> Chad Johnson. >> All right. So, >> what was written about Chad? Chad is extremely selfless and always puts others before himself.
002He does many things behind the scenes that he doesn't get enough credit for. I wouldn't be able to do it without him. Chad always offers his help and expertise in any area involving activities and athletics. His impact on students and the community is clearly demonstrated through his actions and conversations with them. Congratulations, Chad. Oh, we got tape. Nobody's gonna >> congratulations. >> Thank you. >> Kristen Far, >> who you got next? >> Yep. >> Okay. All right. >> Uh Kristen Far is next. >> All right. Kristen does so much for our school outside of her role. She is an amazing mentor, advocate, and role model for staff. She is a true professional and is committed to the work no matter how challenging it might be on any given day. She embodies Titan pride and doing
003what she wait embodies Titan pride in doing what is right. She is not afraid to let kids know when they are not meeting our expectations and will work with them to reflect their behavior. Kristen, CONGRATULATIONS. All right, Katie Rezac. >> All right, Katie consistently demonstrates exceptional dedication and role as a pair professional in special education. and she goes above and beyond to support students by thoughtfully addressing their individual needs and ensuring they receive appropriate personalized assistance. Katie collaborates effectively with both special education staff and general education teachers, contributing valuable insight and working as part of a cohesive team to develop meaningful solutions. She implements agreed upon plans with fidelity and takes an active role in monitoring and tracking the effectiveness of interventions, helping to ensure that instructional strategies are responsive and impactful. Her professionalism, teamwork,
004and commitment to student success make her a highly valuable member of the educational team. Congratulations, KATIE. It's dangerous. >> And uh Sarah Tupi. >> All right. Sarah truly lives out the all means all vision. She is patient, kind, and always willing to lend a hand. She advocates for our students and staff to ensure that all are getting what they need. We are so lucky to have Sarah's expertise on our team. Congratulations, Sarah. >> Congratulations. Thank you. All right. To all our employees once again, >> congrats. Congrats. >> All right. Administrative reports. Chad, you're up. Members of the board, Superintendent Babcock and our two student leaders, want to just update you a little bit on our current uh standings or where we're at in our activities in fine arts. Um, first of all, I think we
005need to recognize one of the coolest events that we have and we do it every other year is our trifest. That was last weekend. It was uh I'd say we were in the 200s roughly each each night. Um over three different performances and those kids, they work hard. So that is one of the cooler events that we have. It's just uh it's not a normal event that uh schools do, but we do it every other year and hats off to all of those kids and Mr. Reed and Mr. Sosa for uh their leadership in that. Um, couple of other things. Speech is just getting going this time of the year for us. So, that's just getting started. We had a home meet here and then we had a second one away this last week. So,
006we're just getting rolling on that. Um, state recognition, we we do very well here with a variety of different things. We have seven kids that qualified for state weightlifting. Um, Tucker Scazic just uh qualified as a section champ and he'll be entering the state wrestling tournament this week. So, that's a hats off to him. Um, we will have 11 BPA members going on to state BPA. So, that's a huge accomplishment for that group. And along with that, 18 robotics kids. We have four different teams and 18 different individuals going on to state robotics. So um pretty successful time of the year for us. We have parade to champions going on almost every single day. Uh recognize groups that are going on to state. So that's um one of the things of the year probably took
007place last Friday. Our boys um it seemed that was really fun. Seconds left of the game. Four or five games. That was a bummer. >> Our girls hockey had a fantastic amazing season. first time ever to get to the section Davis. Um they open open that goal. So that was uh one of our most exciting team performances of the year was the how the girls hockey team finished. uh dance just concluded with sections in ninth place this year and uh you know we do all that and we're talking about state tournaments and we are two weeks away from spring so we won't even finish uh winters and basketballs and those kind of things and kids will just turn in a uniform and grab new ones so it uh it just keeps going. So, it's been
008a great winter. Like I say, when you're when you talk about sending almost 30 kids to state and a variety of different things, it's a it's a very positive thing and a um good recognition for our kids. Any questions that I can answer around activities? >> All right. Thank you for your time. >> Thanks, J. >> Thank you. >> All right, Anna, do you want me to pull this up? >> Sure. Yes, please. And I'm so excited to be here and that you said this needs to be short and sweet because I can talk really fast. Hi, good evening. Marketing and communications for the last few months. So, community engagement. Um, this is just a quick snapshot of a few of the things that have been going on in my world. Um, obviously it's not
009everything. Um, because if this was, I would be really bored. Um, few high school items. Kindergarten roundup obviously is just not high school. Um, that was pretty busy, I guess, in some of the buildings. some obviously not so much, but you know, it's the start. Um, a lot of appreciation days have come and gone. Um, so it's a nice way to, you know, touch all of our staff in one way or the other. At least show a little bit how we care about them, even if it's not in a physical way, I guess you can say. So we So I basically end up either doing digital print or some form or another with all of that. Um s'mores, I talked a little bit about this back in November. This was going to be our new
010newsletter. I did send this out. We um I ended up mailing it to 345 individuals, shared it on Facebook, ended up getting 626 views, um which wasn't too bad. Um and gained 17 new subscribers. Again, not too bad. I actually had no idea what to expect. Um so, yay for us. We'll send another one out in May and hopefully we'll go from there. Um, just go to the next one. Okay, so this basically is um our digital media social media snapshot. So since November um I've been focusing on the connecting with the families and trying to grow our social media and since then we've basically grown 22% um not necessar no I'm sorry not from November from last year this time um and it's been a pretty big victory for our engagement um and with
011the likes the shares the comments we've jumped actually sorry not 22% but by 40% 6% we've jumped up. So that just confirms that our content has been shared and you know communicated throughout our communities which is really nice. Means that we're being seen. So that's a big deal. >> It's encouraging. Okay. And you can you can obviously see all the different numbers. All right. Next one. And see we're we're cruising along. >> I know. Good. >> Um website. So the website is um a whole another beast different than the social media. So with the website I've been working behind the scenes on that and with that I do a lot of the Google Analytics and maybe you guys have ever looked at Google an Google um it is kind of a monster to understand and
012so it shows you all kinds of different reports and different graphs that you can find and this is about the simplest one that I can make so people can understand um here really it's I don't know how to explain it really it's it's a difficult I don't know it's a diff it's just a difficult thing to understand 18,000 visits um within the last six 60 days Um 93% of them have people been people literally searching for TCU, typing it in or bookmarking us. So they're specifically wanting to find our website for whatever reason. We're their gateway, their their reason for finding information. They they're coming to us specifically for a reason. um we have a high engagement rate which means that parents are wanting to find their answers with us and that's that's a good
013thing. So they must trust us for some reason and that's generally a good thing. So yeah. Um and then you know obviously our social media we're getting referrals from our social media. They go to social media. They click from there to the website. It's almost 3% the referrals from other sites like say niche.com or um have things about Tri City United on them and they link back to our website and so on those sites they'll click there and they'll come site is and so you'll get almost 2% people come from engagements and initiatives LN state of the union on Wednesday so you get a sneak sneak peek. I've got a few ads that I turned in and hint hint hint. Um website is going to still be getting work. ADA compliance is a huge thing
014right now. So with our migration from our school, a few years ago that wasn't really a thing. So every single image with on our on our website needs to be opened up, adjusted and added alter alternate text. So it's a huge process and time consuming. So it's something that I just have to work on consistently. It's a lot of fun. And every single PDF has to be touched, opened, and confirmed that it is um compliant also. And so that's a whole another beast. A lot of fun. Um OPIS sign, that's a another program that I talked about before. Lots of new trainings with that. So that's another fun one that I enjoy. Um, welcome neighbor is a service that we use throughout the communities. So, new residents come to the communities and this service actually
015meets with these new residents and gives them information about the district. And so, we I work with her with community ed and she has little brochures, community ed, and she gives these families information about our amazing school district. And the next one, I completely didn't add any visuals to this one, so sorry. Um, here I kind of touched on the ADA compliance and the accessible PDFs. Really exciting. That's why you don't have a visual so you understand how exciting PDFs and compliance are. Um, and that's really about it. I'm just working on inventory updatings and prepping for summer. um all the summer fun, inventory, ordering, swag, and all of that good fun and budget review and all of that good stuff. So, that is my life in a nutshell. Any questions? Did I go fast
016enough? You did fine. I don't have any questions. Okay. Thank you. You're welcome. >> Thanks, Anna. >> All right, Amy. Well, good evening everyone. I'm going to share some little things that we're doing in food service that I feel are making a big difference. Um, last month we had Chef Jamie here and she did a Katnine barbecue um chicken stir fry. This month we did Kungpow chicken for all the kids. We got little to-go boxes in these little things. Our elementary kids went bananas. I was at the middle school in Montgomery last week. They saw these boxes, they were so excited. We had close to 60% of our kids chose this Kungpow chicken stir fry up against the other two items. Um, something we're going to do next month is we're going to make sure
017that everybody gets some chopsticks. Our elementary schools will get like a little instruction that'll be sent out to staff and then the teachers, if they'd like to have their children have it, they can come get it from the kitchen, have it in the classroom. >> And then that's what we were afraid of. and they can help the kids learn about it, be with them at the lunch table and have them enjoy it. Um, this is something that, yes, we had a chef come in last month, but it's something that we thought this is something little that we can bring and we're going to do it once a month through the rest of the year. Next month, we're going to do a broccoli and beef stir fry and then we're going to have the kids vote
018next month what they would like in April. So, again, little things that we found um make a big difference. And of course, the kids love the fortune cookies. They were all like coming back and if they didn't have lunch, they'd ask us for one. We gave it to them and they were reading everything. So, it was fun. Um, this time around we have Chef John coming. He actually is here tonight. So, you guys are going to enjoy the Moon Burgers and uh we got some um oven roasted sweet potatoes and he's making the strawberry fizz boba beverage. So, um, at our high school this week, we're going to have all the class officers are coming in, um, 9th through 11th grade, and they're going to help us with the strawberry bobbas. So, that they're going
019to do what we call the boba tea experience with Chef John. So, it'll be really nice to have them come and help, and we're excited. Um, another little tool. This is called a mandolin. Um, it is a very, very sharp tool. It's got different blades on it. As you can see, I have it covered. Um yesterday, Chef John came up, Chef Jamie came in, we took um what was it? 60 pounds of Persian little small cucumbers. Used this tool at a 1/16th inch, sliced all of the pickles to make John's Japanese pickles for the burgers that you're going to have tonight and the kids are having all week at school. So again, little things. These are cutting gloves. I got them in all different colors and different sizes for the staff. So, another safety tool
020that we use that'll keep our staff safe and the kids safe from anything in their pickles. Right. So, um and then uh next month we've got National School Breakfast Week coming up the first week of March. So, we're going to be doing some fun things with yogurt. We're going to do yogurt parfets, different smoothies. Their kids are asking for like an orange tulius type smoothie, which we have a recipe from General Mills. So, we're going to do that because we've been doing the strawberry banana now for the last month and a half. So, in a nutshell, that's what's happening in food service. Small little things that we're doing to make it fun for the kids from grades preschool through our seniors. So, um, any questions? >> No, that little tool works fantastic. I have one
021at home. >> It's awesome. Do you have a cutting glove? Cuz >> I don't have a cutting glove. >> That guard is awful. But if you have a cutting glove, Yeah. Amazon, they're super cheap. And yeah, it's way easier to hold something with that. So, >> have a cheese grater, too. You >> You can do cheese. I wasn't trying to like do the rondo or whatever the salad chops it slices but it does >> ones so you can get really fancy. >> Nice. >> Perfect. >> All right. All right. Wonderful. I'll have John come at six. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Yep. All right. Um accept we'll uh need a motion to approve the agenda. >> I'll make a motion. One >> second. >> I have a motion by Chris Velasc, second by Susie Rip
022to approve the agenda. All those in favor? Those opposed. >> All right. Motion has passed 6. Uh, next up we have the consent agenda. So, we have our January 12th, 2026 special school board meeting and our January 26th regular school board meeting minutes. Under personnel, we have employment ending. We have Ramona Marquez, uh, pair professional, Courtney Whips, assistant volleyball coach, Sean Cisco, custodian, and Sarah Holden, pair professional. Under new hires, we have Theresa Collins, interventionalist, long-term sub. Jackson Simon, pair professional, Brandy Filter, pair professional, Isabella Marenus, par professional, Lydia Alstan, um, occupation therapist and with additional days that are temporary, and Kevin Larson, our facilities director. Under leave of absence, we have Chris, uh, Christine St. Martin pair professional, Darlene Deetsz, Cooksh helper, and Teresa Jensen cooks helper. We have one contract which is our
023facilities director March 26 March 2026 through 2028. And we have approval of the bills on the amount of $4,579,733.58. I'll seek a motion to approve the consent agenda. >> I'll make a motion. I'll second. I have a motion by Susie Rip, second by Chris Velesc to approve the consent agenda. All those in favor? >> Those opposed? Motion is passed. 6. Next up, we have open forum and we do not have anyone here to speak uh during open forum. Next up is our student uh representatives. >> Hi, I'm Jill. I'm the student council president. >> I'm Gavin. I'm the student council vice president. >> We're the student school representatives. Um student council update. grocery sales went amazing. We had over a hundred sales between Pop and Bags of Kisses, which was really good. Um, the Titan
024Tech Grand Prize was drawn during snow week. The prize was two Echo Show fives. And then we also welcomed new members Colton Thomas Ernest and Darby Phelps. Um, NHS update. We helped with the advisory tours that went on February 9th through 13th where there were presentations by all of the departments for the freshman, sophomores, and juniors to see all the classes that the high school offers. I actually learned of a couple classes. I didn't know we had a bunch of computer classes and stuff. It was interesting for me. Um, and on March 15th, NHS members will be bagging groceries at Cub Foods in Northfield and asking for donations from customers for a charity of that'll be decided at a later date. So, if you want to go shopping and see kids, go come. >> Um,
025BPA, like Chad said, we're going to state. State is March 5th through 7th, and we're going to do a Walk of Champions um on the 5th. Eight people qualified in their events. And then we're having a couple come along and do what's called like an open event, which you don't actually have to qualify for. You can just go and compete in. And then art team, we have our 11th annual art night, which is on March 5thclud. Thiscl of things, pottery, Bob Ross, the wings projects that you see like downtown. >> Um, senior murals like out in the hallway, we'll be having pizza. >> Um, BP will also be having a book drive. We're starting that here soon. >> Yeah, >> we just need to get things up and running, but this is part of a
026competition between chapters across the state. So, we just figured that out this weekend. Um, there's been a discussion of another meeting between the student school board members of Minnesota just to discuss what's new and stuff. We were kind of a pretty close group this year which was been a big difference. We text on group me and stuff about random updates. That's kind of cool. Um, and then also Mosas checked Marty Gra was on February 15th at the revival. Isaac Worm gave up his title. We had two candidates this year so that was fun to have more than more than one person. They did an interview each. It was Colton Thomas Ernest and Evans Kachek and Evans was ground. That's pretty much it. >> Perfect. >> Very cool. >> Thank you. >> All right. Items. We
027have the AI PAC update. >> Yeah. Do you have that paper that's right there? >> It's right there. resolution. >> Brenda, take it back. >> I don't have it. Brenda, was it in the folder? >> Well, anyway, it's the American Indian. >> That's That's fine. It's the American >> Oh, this morning when I was there. Okay. >> No, right away. >> Yeah, right away. So, it's American Indian piece of our of our district that we get funding for. So, we share um an advisor with Bell Plane and we've had uh quite a few parents involved with it uh to uh some events that that they've gone to. I know Bell Plane uh recently also had the tepee uh that was put into place in their elementary kind of courtyard. Uh we'll be looking at that
028potentially here as well at some point. Uh we're Shel and I are trying to figure it out because of the nature of trying to bring elementary to that that piece. Um so the update is for us to continue the grant uh funding for us to be able to pay for the person to be in charge of that. Um I will say that it significantly has helped our kids already as far as the work that uh has been done um and meeting the needs for intervention for our students that are Indian of descent. So um yeah, it's uh it's been really really cool. We're still morphing into more of what that's going to be as we have a new leader this year and we'll see where it ends up. But we are going to look at
029doing some more projects. I know that they uh they did some can't remember what kind of food they made, but they did some uh fried bread and something else they made um for their evening their little board meeting that they had uh over here in our um fax room. So, that went really well too as far as um a bunch of people showing up for that. I think we had 12 13 families show up um which in the past for the first year we had it uh we had about three or four. So, we're getting a lot more interest. We actually got some people that found out about it that actually showed up that aren't a part of uh the actual board. So, it's growing. Um, and as people are aware, we have about 31
030um American Indian descent students in our district. So, it's pretty cool. So, we're going to continue to look at that. Shelley uh will be presenting uh with those folks in April, I believe. So, we'll let her give a little more details uh once that comes to fruition. So, yeah, it's very cool. >> Perfect. Thank you. Math curriculum. Alida, >> we have some math folks joining Elida tonight. >> I'll have them introduce themselves once they get up here. >> Absolutely. Members of the board, Superintendent Babcock, and our student representatives. My name is Steven Linesess. I am a sixth through eighth grade special education case manager over at the Montgomery building. So, I work with middle school. And this year I got invited to co-e both a seventh grade and an eighth grade math class and it
031has been eye opening into our math curriculum. >> Hi, I'm Nikki Greger and I am one of the kindergarten teachers in the Londale building >> and I'm Mela the director of teaching and learning. I do have slides if we're interested in pulling them up otherwise that would just be for >> your use. So, we started our adoption process with our educators back in November. Um, some things that we were running into were our mathematical standards. So, our mathematical standards haven't been changed and updated in 20 years in the state of Minnesota. Um, I would say that we are there's some evidence-based strategies that aren't currently in place. Um our current mathematical standards um are focused around mathematical rigor and it includes these three components. The standards in the standards really reflect the whole procedural skill
032and fluency. But what they recommend is that we have conceptual understanding first and then we work on the procedural understanding. So, when we're thinking of a double-digit multiplication problem, why are we carrying over a number to the top of the 10's place? Like, what does that what does that recom what does that mean? Um, a lot of our current math resources don't necessarily include this. So, this is is one of the major shifts that we're going to start running into. Um, something that we're also trying to focus on is high quality curriculum in all of our content areas. I did provide you a nice handout with banners on it. So whether or not in our courses it's curated or purchased from a vendor, these are all the components that we want to see. So, when
033we're working with PLC's and we're working with groups of educators like the high school ELA department, we're asking them, what are our researchbased principles when we're making this lesson? What are the routines that we're using for 9th grade and 12th grade? Currently, with our current math curriculum, we adopted K5. We did not adopt 68. We did not adopt in the high school. And so we're missing significant chunks and significant components of high quality curriculum. I'm going to lean on these two to maybe reference how our current math experience is happening here at TCU this year. Yeah. So, um, a couple things is that, um, going back to the standards and just matching them to, um, what the curriculum, um, entails in it. There's a lot of, um, piecing and trying to make sure that we
034are meeting all of the standards. Um, another thing, did you want to go into the the >> just >> throughout the district? >> Yeah. Um, what I've noticed the most teaching both seventh and eighth grade is that there's very little consistent sequencing of when we are learning things and what we are and how we are learning things. Um, both the seventh and eighth grade curriculums were created by two teachers at the time and although they were working closely together, not everything was planned like a curriculum curriculum that you like purchase and bring in will be. So when we are learning things in seventh grade, our last unit does not flow into eighth grade. We learned something like what we are learning right now and we will not finish the year with is what we started
035the year with in eighth grade. So there's two months of time where they are learning new stuff and then in eighth grade they're asked to recall what they learned five months prior. Um, I also find myself creating pretty much every assignment that we do either by hand or typing them up or researching online for different assignments. Um, and even really just like the overarching curriculum, especially for our co-taught classes, there's very little for any extra interventions or um, anything outside of just what is the bare minimum of what was created. Going off that too, I feel even though I wasn't here for the roll out for this current curriculum, um the way it was rolled out and the way that it's being used, I feel like sometimes like cross districtwide, it's even different because it
036is like you said piecing together and everybody trying to find those standards to make sure the students are getting the best education possible. So I do feel like that's another thing that I've that I've noticed as well. Something that we run into with any curriculum adoption is setting non-negotiables. So with ELA and K8, setting those non-negotiables, making sure all of these things exist and our staff can access them. Um, something that's really unique to Minnesota is we are not a common core state, but 38 of our other states are. And so there's wonderful purchase curriculum out there. But specifically with Minnesota's math standards, when we, and we'll talk about this, when we vetted material, we were thinking specifically in eighth grade and fifth grade, we would have to surgically remove this unit from this grade
037and plop it here and get multiple grade levels for one teacher. And that is something we were super nervous for walking in to this adoption. So, our timeline, if you scroll down, I'm sorry. If you scroll down, this was our timeline. Um, Jeff Epen and I started in June of 24. We attended a math training session. Um, all last year, we trained our TNL members, which is our three instructional coaches and two teachers on special assignment. Our three instructional coaches went in and out and modeled lessons that happened to exist with that mathematical rigor stool, conceptual understanding to procedural fluency. And then we also trained building leaders so that they could start prepping their staff and what they needed on, oh, this might be a really big shift for these teachers and maybe not for
038these. Um, this fall we sent out interest forms on who would be interested. We selected it as a group and then the adoption team has met once a month for eight hours from November through February to vet materials. Um, if you scroll down, these are the members who were are on our adoption team. We had a wide range all the way from high school to elementary. We also had an instructional coach on there, Vanessa, um, to help us really understand. She does a lot of that job embedded professional development with our staff. and we wanted to make sure we got her viewpoint when we were talking about implementation. If you scroll down a little more, so in November, we analyzed our new math standards. We set some non-negotiables about things that we were looking for
039and what we wanted, what was a want versus a need. We did read the opportunity myth, which is from the new teacher project all around what grade level instruction looks like. Um, it's also the same article our whole staff read on the January 20th PD day that you granted us. Um, December we vetted materials. We got down to two. We kind of got to uh we don't like either of them, but they could work. So, I went back out. I brought another one forward. We vetted again in January and we selected our item which we were really really um excited about and just last week we spent eight hours talking about what support do you need from our teaching and learning team? What are some non-negotiables we can set with teachers? What are things that
040we're going to um provide as teacher discretion? And they provide lots of different perspectives that we're excited to roll out. So, if you scroll down, what we selected for K all the way up through algebra 2 is Reveal Math. Um, Reveal Math is releasing a Minnesota version. So, what I chatted about earlier with like the surgical removing of an eighth grade unit and bringing it down to seventh and an algebra unit going down to eighth, they're creating like an algebra 1/8th grade course which is going to be a game changer for us. Um, our teachers were very excited about it. Um, they have physical and digital materials. Um, it also comes with Alex Adventure, which different districts utilize for an intervention program. We currently do not have intervention materials. Um, I'm not saying that's what
041we're using, but it's an option for us. Um, and we talked about the implementation of that that program. It's very closely aligned to Minnesota standards. the Minnesota Council for Teaching Mathematics. Um, Reveal is sponsoring the whole conference coming in April because the organization believes in the work that they're doing. In every lesson, it provides choice for educators. Um, educators can choose a hands-on experience versus a guided experience. So, something that we run into when we're make something more hands-on. Sometimes educators don't understand what that can look like in a kindergarten space versus an eighth grade algebra 1 space. And so, every lesson our teachers can pick and choose. And last week we talked about what does that mean in regards to support from the teaching and learning team when they're going in and helping planning
042with teams weekly. It also is really closely aligned to those rich mathematical tasks and it's backed by multiple organizations of grade level rigor and high quality curriculum. Um it's scored the highest in ed report. So we feel really confident in the material that we're we're utilizing. Would you like to add anything about reveal? from everything that I've done with it is looked at um we have an >> online like access already and I've started implementing different things in my in my co-taught and in my pullout classes because it it's there and it's amazing. Um along with Alex Adventures like every single unit and every single section of every unit comes with extra intervention problems for kids to be doing. Um, and really when we were looking at everything, finding something that was going to be
043rewritten specifically for Minnesota standards was just I mean it blew us all away. like when we were looking at everything else >> it was >> I will keep echoing that because we sat there and went back and forth like I like this one more because it follows for these four grades it's really good but then for those four grades that one's better and then we found something that we didn't have to make any compromises and >> everybody could agree on and by the end of that day in January we were like heck yeah let's like we we did it like we found something that's going to work that we won't have to change that we won't have to supplement um the supplements are built in and it provides digital and physical textbooks, workbooks, um >>
044and quality lessons, like a good Yeah. >> high quality >> Yep. >> lessons, hundreds of slides that are editable, downloadable, >> do whatever you want with them. Um, so they give you they give educators a lot of like opportunity to make it their own still while automatically following the standards that are set out. >> We practice we had some in uh kindergarten too. We've used a couple lessons um just to kind of see what it would be like to have some five and six year olds and it was so fantastic. like it was a part of it like it's a longer like it's a nice true math lesson that has everything we were looking for and they were so engaged and so I don't know it was just really fun to see not that it
045wasn't before but like this was like you said taking it off the teacher so it's going to be more universal around the district of that you know that high quality that high engagement piece of it they jumped right in it was a 40-ish minute lesson and they were it it just it was I'm really excited for it. Okay, so investment because we have 13 minutes left. Uh so this would be a six-year adoption. It includes professional development the the initial one four days consumables non-consumables online platform um it would be 430,000 for six years. Our K5 adoption um five years ago was about 180. So if I were to just put that into perspective, um this also allows us to get rid of additional programs that we're currently using. Um we also need some additional
046supplies that we're missing in some classrooms. So that bottom bullet point is is an estimate um of 70,000 for onboarding of professional development. Um these two came in after the initial implementation of math expressions and we ran into issues with onboarding professional development. We want to make sure we have that budgeted for the next six years in case we need something else. Um, we also are missing some things like technology in some of our math spaces that's needed. Um, so that's an estimate that is that could be split up over the six years to really make sure that we are giving our teachers what they need to do the work. We also have we also need to re-up our pre-calc and calculus concurrent enrollment textbooks. We have I'm trying to negotiate some quotes with some
047different companies. Um, and then statistics is a new concurrent enrollment class. So, we need to buy and purchase textbooks that need to get approved through the college. Um, 65,000 is a very, very, very, very top end. I'm thinking with the current quote I got about two hours ago, it's going to be closer to 30,000, but I'm going to get I like to cry with mentors. Um, but those that would be the the investment for um our math adoption, kinder all the way up through algebra, too. What questions do we have? So the last math curriculum was 130,000 total or per year. >> Um total. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> But that was how many years ago already? >> Yeah. >> The uh physical and digital materials. Do educators have the option to choose one or
048the other or is there going to be a standard of hey 70% of this is going to be physical? And >> so with our younger grades it it's not studentf facing. It's teacherf facing. So like they can attach it to a Google classroom. It's got the teacher materials on it or maybe like all of the printable items so you don't have to scan your physical manual. Um for the upper grades, it comes with a workbook for our staff or our students to utilize. Um but for assessments, it can sync to Google Classroom. So it could be a form or something like that that they can edit. But there is there is going to be a choice. Um, it was discussed whether or not we would like set some of those barriers. The nice thing from
049an admin perspective is I can see how much time is spent from a teacher perspective on them and how many loginins our students receive. So, we talked about maybe it's something we monitor for the first little bit to see what's being used, knowing that we're going to be encouraging them to shut their devices and then implementing this K through 12. Have you anticipated what it's going to be like? For example, I'm sure it flows from K through 12, but you have a fifth grader that has been learning one way and now in sixth grade it's like, oh, switch gears. >> Yeah. our uh teaching and learning co-op with our region have been intensive like next year MCA's change. So our third grade students next year who have not received these standards are going to be
050expected to test on these standards. So I just I would like to address that next year is a new assessment for and so we were we are worried about that. Um, but it is another reason why we had our instructional coaches going in last year to help model some of that work and use some of the resources that we had in house to strengthen those pieces. But it is definitely a concern and we're just going to keep going up from here. I I think also an important thing with this new curriculum with it focusing so heavily on understanding the con like the conceptual ideas behind it. Um there will be a little bit of each lesson spent to get like improve their understanding and actually really like get at the reason why we use math
051and the way like the why of things working. So, I think that will help >> fill some of those gaps as well because they'll be getting more of a actual like why we do these or why we take this step before this step um built into all of the lessons. >> I think the biggest non-negotiable is it's K12. >> Well, I was just going to say that I think it's the first >> it's what we haven't had >> that we've been able to do that and I think that's starting a um that's starting a trend >> that we should have moving forward with all of our departments. >> Some of the pieces were missing that we're cross district, right? So now we are non-negotiable. So this grade is doing this and this, you know, so
052now we have that curriculum that will drive us up. >> It's not disconnect going from one grade >> and it's got intervention pieces. So if we got kids that need to move ahead, we can do that with review to get ready for test. Um, so it it's very dynamic. >> Are there any districts you've talked to that use this? >> New ALM uses not the Minnesota version, but Reveal for high school, and their teachers love it. their director of teaching and learning loves the fact that the assessments can all go into this one database. So, as a principal or a director, we can compare like section to section to see performance on specific standards, which we've never had before, which is exciting. So, they really enjoy it. Um, another elementary up north is using it
053and they have loved it, too. And they don't have the Minnesota version, so that's the exciting piece of it. And the trainer from the company lives in Lakeville, so she's nice and close and is very easy to get a hold of. >> Very cool. >> I'm excited. >> Which after your training will probably be a training site? >> Yeah, it would probably be legit >> charge to bring other schools in. >> Exactly. >> The ugly part of it, the the cost. Um, is that fit into our budget or >> It is. >> I know we're voting on this, so I want to ask. >> Yep. it is more expensive than our other adoptions have been. >> Um, and that's that's the reality of that. So, we also are significantly behind on our adoption cycle. So,
054I can't give you a yes or no answer. >> Can your question yes or no? >> It will be >> yes till I have to make it >> okay doable. >> It's necessary. I just want to make sure we haven't had to for middle school and high school before, right? Because we don't have anything. >> No, no, it was teacher created and the teacher that created it for our 7th grade math was a first or second year teacher when she was asked to create the curriculum. >> So that's what we're working with. >> I know for a district half size that just came from we order that was just slightly over 200,000 for math curriculum. >> Yeah. And so I mean I have pretty comparable >> third and a sixth grader and I or a
055second and a sixth grader. Sorry. And um you know I see the diff I mean it's all over the place sometimes the educators are doing a great job with it. It's just seeing this and understanding dang you know K through 12 it's just going to flow. >> Yes. >> Uh worth the investment. I'm glad you said what you did like we have to make it work. >> Yeah we do. >> We do. >> Yeah. >> L and I have taken a a lot of deep dives into grade level deficiencies and a bunch of different uh measures throughout uh the district over the years. um and it's needed and finally to settle on a K12 which they were on the other door beside me um just to have that group in there to sit and go
056through that was pretty awesome just to listen to a little bit watch get some updates um was really good and they're all invested in it right now >> so >> and it was unanimous decision right >> it was yes it was >> so this will be fully started >> if you say yes >> you say yes >> when you say yes I'm going to be emailing every day. >> I would love >> Well, they're doing they're doing a little roll out. So, for instance, you know, this this process probably would have been >> last year. Then they would have been implementing and then we would have rolled it out next year. However, we're trying to catch up from COVID in the cycle. So, we were on a seven-year cycle. We switched that to a six-year
057cycle because seven is way too long with today's technology and some different tools. Um, so this will catch us back up quicker, a little bit quicker than normal. So, the team did a phenomenal job of settling on uh everybody agreeing to it. Uh it was a lot of work. Um but this will really get us in a spot now to get it our cycle ready to go for our next curriculums as we move along. >> The process that we used was from Unbound Ed, which owns the same company that we did our science of reading readact through and it's also the same training that we're going to send principles to that is around grade level instruction and high quality curriculum. So, we're really trying to blend and simplify the work that we do in the
058TNL department to as little processes as possible um for our teacher sake and our admin sake who have to deal with it on a daily basis. >> Yeah, those will put ease for administration too because our principles will have a better understanding of the actual curriculum because again you can walk into kindergarten be different, eighth grade would be different, you know, sixth grade's different. Um so now when we have administration in there, we can also have them more on the teaching and learning side of what is happening in math. Oh, this is really good. Thank you. We talk about facilities and all kinds of stuff all day long, but this stuff is good. We need to update it and implement it. >> It's all the fun stuff in teaching and education. Thank any other questions.
059>> No, thank you guys. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Enrollment real quick. We can do that. Enrollment's down 10, but we're back up four. Uh most of that's in the high school. We had some families that left us and then we had some kids that went off to online. So, um, we're just up and down again. Uh, we had a tour today in Lawndale. So, we'll we'll wait to see where the year ends. >> I was going to say, where's where's the space? >> We have a little bit of room. >> Yeah. So, >> okay. >> And nothing nothing too dramatic from last year. It's pretty much consistent. And again, we just need to get a few of our students back from online with what happened with what's happening in our economy. So, >>
060okay, we have some committee updates. finance. You >> have the notes. >> I do. Do you want me to read that? >> Thank you. >> I'm not taking notes all the time, so I'm not teasing. Uh, so we met as a finance committee back on the 9th of February. Uh, we talked about the um the audit again that's being finalized um said and done. There was a few things that needed to be um completed yet on that. Um we're also working to get a revised budget which you guys will see um in March. >> Um again, there was no surprises with the audit. Just as a quick update with that, uh again, um working with Lane on getting Sim United Way funding uh for the the school readiness and ECF. With that, um we're just
061looking at costs of of everything that we're doing. We're trying to have a balanced budget u moving forward. So again, there's going to be um there's going to be some moving parts with that um negotiations. We have principles um in in the works with that and uh and we talked about online uh with enrollment and then the food service and transportation contracts are going to be due this year too. >> So those are the pretty much what we hit there >> facilities you can skip that one. >> Okay. >> We just did interviews. >> Mhm. >> Okay. um curriculum. Give my little update there. Basically, we talked a lot about the math curriculum. Um just going from a seven-year to a six-year curriculum cycle. It it coincides with the math now being six years. So,
062that's kind of what we decided to do. We reworked that. Um there was a few other programs that we talked about. Be glad as more of the language sections. Elida is a trainer, so she'll be doing some training there. Um, ELA, again, we talked about that. Uh, not done yet with the K8. Um, again, we talked about a different board policy with staff development. And I have to re review my notes before I come into these meetings. Sped, the due process days on teaching and learning for the coding there. We have to rework some of that stuff. Um, our transition from sixth to seventh grade. That is a as a transition. and we know they're all going from different buildings, but having a little bit more there and then having some goals for our teaching
063and learning too is kind of what we talked about. So, um Southwest Metro, is there anything there? >> Um they are, um so my glasses um so they um partnered with St. Francis Hospital in Alina um through the community and school recognition award. And so what they're doing with that is um Southwest Metro will be um educational service within care treatment programming for um the students and for their education receiving their support and care. And then um that was a big thing what they talked about. So Uh Q comp >> um UC compet sorry middle of January. Um they discussed the first PD day that they had on January 5th and then what they were going to do on the January 20th one and then they also talked about what's coming up next Friday on
064the 27th. Um, and there was some discussion about QC comp funding um, with like extended leave and the FMLA and how that plays into their pay for Q comp. Um, and they wanted to thank us for approving the additional days off >> because they got a lot of things accomplished and um, it was a good use of their time. So, >> it's good. >> Yep. I also have community ed. Um, preschool has already been registering. Um, the new kids zone for uh summer will come out at the end of March. Um, the summer catalog will also come out at the middle of March. The one thing that we talked a lot about is that we partner with New Prague Aquatic Center to be a what was that look for? >> Curious. Swim America and they
065are no longer going to be doing that. So, we're talking about going back to Red Cross, but Dorothy is in her last round of Red Cross training. So, we're going to need to look at options instead um to figure out what program we're going to go with. >> Real quick, Swim America, you have to have a certain number of >> Yep. And we combine. So, like they're the site that we're like the partner site. >> So, we're going to have to figure that out for swimming lessons. >> I like that program. Which one? >> America. It's really good. >> Um, and then they had a record number of the Santa breakfast of 323 people. >> Nice. >> So, and they got the 2,000 or $20,000 early learning grant, but we've discussed that already. So, that's
066it. >> Fantastic, >> Josh. >> Yeah. Uh, Yep. So, we have our donations. So, yeah. Go ahead. Be it resolved that the school board of independent school district number 2905 accept with appreciation the following donations and permits their use as designated by the donors. Post strike repair Montgomery $50 for CE Friendship Adventure and then Mike Traxler new prag $50 for C Friendship Adventure. >> I'll second. >> All right. This is a resolution introduced by Chris Velasax and seconded by Hillary Bernzo. Um for the donations, this will be a roll call vote. Hillary, >> yes. >> Marcia is a yes. Chris, >> yes. >> Uh Susie, >> yes. >> And um >> yes. >> Cindy, >> yes. >> Thank you. Uh roll call vote has passed a five. >> Um I think so. >> Okay. All
067right. be a resolved by the school board of independent school district number 2905 as follows. Number one, the school board shall evaluate in writing the performance of the superintendent at least once a year. Number two, the school board and the superintendent shall meet and discuss the evaluation process and thereafter the school board shall adopt an evaluation format to carry out the evaluation process. Number three, the school board shall furnish the superintendent with a copy of the written evaluation as provided herein. In the event that the school board determines that the performance of the superintendent is unsatisfactory in any respect, the school board shall describe in writing in reasonable detail the specifics of the unsatisfactory performance. The evaluation shall include recommendations as to areas of improvement in all instances when the school board deems performance to
068be unsatisfactory. A copy of the written evaluation shall be delivered to the superintendent and become a part of the superintendent's personnel file. The superintendent shall have the right to make a written reaction or response to the evaluation. This response shall be provided to the school board and shall also be placed in the superintendent's personnel file. Upon request of the superintendent, the school board or its representatives shall meet with the superintendent within 30 days of such request to discuss the evaluation. >> And this is just a resolution that we're passing. Um we talked about this at our work sessions last time. Um so it's just holding the board accountable to do that eval every year. So I'll need a second. >> I'll second. >> All right. I have uh Chris Fasc introduce the resolution for the
069periodic performance evaluation of the superintendent. Susie Rip had seconded. Um this will be roll call vote. Hillary >> yes. >> Marcia is a yes. Chris, >> yes. >> Um Susie, >> yes. >> And Cindy, >> yes. >> Um resolution has passed. >> All right. Be it resolved by the school board of independent school district number 2905 as follows. The school board of Independent School District 2905 hereby directs the superintendent of schools and the administration to consider the reduction and or discontinuence of programs or positions to accomplish economies in the school district as a result of reduction in the enrollment and or funding and to make recommendations to the school board for the discontinuence of programs, curtailment of programs, discontinuence of positions for curtailment of positions. >> I'll need a second. >> I'll second. >> All
070right. Chris Valac introduced the resolution directing the administration to make recommendations regarding programming and staffing for the 2627 school year. Susie had second it. Um this will be a roll call vote. Hillary >> yes. >> Marcia is a yes. Chris >> Susie >> yes. >> And um Cindy >> yes. Roll call or resolution is passed by roll call vote. Um, next up is our adoption of our reveal math K12 curriculum. I'll seek a motion. >> I'll make a motion. >> I'll second. >> Oh, you didn't sound happy about that. >> No. >> Motion by Chris Velasak, seconded by Hillary Birdsell to approve the adoption of the reveal map K12 curriculum. Any questions, concerns? >> All those in favor? >> Those opposed? >> Motion has passed. 6. Um, I need a motion to adjurnn the meeting.
071>> 50 I'm sorry. >> I'll make a motion. >> I'll second. >> Oh my gosh. Hillary, >> what? >> Susie. Motion by Hillary Birdell, second by Susie Rip to join the meeting at 6:03 p.m. All those in favor? Those opposed? Uh, motion's passed 5 to zero.