001when I posted it on my website. Let's start with it. 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. All right, roll call finds Cindy absent. Susie is coming, but run a little behind. Uh let's start with the administrative report since Chad you're in the front to go first. Here's where you want to go. Sure. This my spot. All right. Members of the board, Chad Johnson, activities director. I get a chance to kind of update you a few times a year on just some basic uh updates on our activities programs and and those kind of things. First thing I want to do is shut off my phone. Flashlight coming on. Okay. Sorry. Um
002I'm pretty lucky. Every time I do this job, we get so many things to brag about that I feel pretty fortunate. Just going to randomly go across the board. Uh first one, just a few days ago, we had a national champion in weightlifting. Um, don't know if how many of you follow our my media stuff, but uh, Max Roder did that as a seventh grader during the high school. You probably didn't hear his name very much. We have two different categories in weightlifting and it's varsity and novice. Novice is seventh, eighth, and ninth. So during high school season, he competes 789. He goes to the national tournament. He competes with his age and his grade and his weight and became a national champion. So that was out in Colorado Springs. It's a pretty big event.
003So, uh, big recognition to Max. Uh, fishing team just got started here this spring. First event of the year. We won 25 teams. Griffin Pumper and Carson Flech were the champions of that first one. So, um, fishing teams, one of our really good programs and they continue to do so. Uh, state trap shooting. I just was up in, uh, Minneapolis Gun Club, which is in Prior Lake. So that makes sense. But uh I was up there for that state tournament here this last week. Uh clarification nine days in in Alexandria is where they start. Everybody qualifies and sends their group up there. And then the top 25 girls in the state and the top 100 boys qualify for the big event at the Minneapolis Gun Club. Two of the 100 boys were TCU boys. One
004of the 25 girls was a TCU girl. Um Addison Man finished uh finished sixth in the state in out of the 25. So that's pretty impressive. Uh our boys were in the 50 to 60 range out of the hundred. Um that was Bronco Shonbower and Jacob Chihawk. So that's a a big credit to them. There's thousands and thousands of kids they have uh up there in Alexandria. For just those two to qualify was pretty impressive. Um, our team took 10th overall in the state out of out of the 40 teams that qualify. 40 different teams qualify out of the hundreds that they have throughout the state and we took 10th. Uh, we were conference champs during the year and probably the highlight to the state tournament was Kaden Deetsz went 99 out of 100. So
005if it would have been in the individuals, he would have won the state title or he would have been top five in the state title. So, just uh did it the wrong time of the day, but that's uh a pretty big hats off to Kaden for that. Um track. I don't know if any of you ever get to our track program or get to any of our meets, but if you don't, I would say you're missing out. And that's anybody that's can listen to this. Uh we have 138 kids out for track. We had 116 last year. Uh most of you know we have a compliance number here at school. I'm supposed to keep our coaches to students in a 1 to or a 10 to 19 ratio. We're uh 1 to 23 now for
006coaches to athletes in track. So that's the one of our few sports that's non-compliant, but it works. We have one of our track coaches here, Mr. Nordling. He's done an amazing job with that whole program. But our track thing is phenomenal. We have uh just going to give you some of the highlights from the year. Um 18 girls made all conference, one of one boy made all conference. We have a eighth grader that's a two-time state entrant already. Uh we have a ninth grader that's a three-time state entrant and a three-time place winner. We just had a seventh grader this year that is a state place winner in two events. We had uh 10 girls on the podium up in up at the state tournament. Carly Hartwig was a three-time state place winner, meaning she
007finished in the top nine, but all of these finished in the top seven. Uh Carly was a three-time. Caitlyn was a two-time. Cammy was a two-time. So, the Heartwigs pulled off seven of them state placing for us. Jill Hone was a state place winner. Lepita was a state place winner, and Yasmin was a state place winner. Um, we have two girls going on to college. One to be a hurdler, one to be a distance runner. Um, I I can't say enough positive things about our track program and where it's gone and how it continues to grow through the through the roof. So, like I say, if if at all possible, if you can ever make a track event next year, we host five. We host more than most people do. Um, but uh we try
008to get some good competition in here for us because good people need good competition. So, moving on to baseball was not one of our strongest years. We were below 500. Um, that's not normal for TCU baseball. We had 36 kids out for it. We finished fourth in the Big South. As you know, the this was really our first year diving into the Big South. So, we finished fourth out of the seven in the the big side. Uh, we had two allconerence members, Park Rome Ali and uh Nate Blow. Uh softball this year we had 33 members in that. We finished third in the Big South Conference. Going into the last day we were in a three-way tie for first and uh we obviously didn't win because we finished third. Um we had four allconerence members,
009Audrey Vipka, Laney Blasco, Christina Cruz, and Avery Lurfeld. If you followed much through this year, Avery Lurfold was one of the eight finalists for Miss Minnesota softball, which is obviously eight girls in the whole state of Minnesota, and we have one of them. So, another rarity to uh brag about. Uh golf, 57 kids out for golf. We are very lucky to have Greg and Montgomery Golf Course in this town. Uh people struggle. It's it's hard to get on golf courses and we are lucky that our kids get to be on golf courses and as much as they do. Uh we got couple tea times every single day so we're able to get get our kids out. But there's a lot of teams that have golf and they don't even have a a golf course in
010our town. So we're we're pretty fortunate. We continue to grow. Our our girls golf team was crazy consistent this year. One of them would finish first. next time and someone would finish sixth and the next time they'd be just the opposite. They uh went to sections and they were all within like four strokes of each other. They We are balanced. We have a great balanced girls team. Our boys are boys hit the ball longer and farther, but it doesn't it's you there's also bad things that happen with that anyway that golfs. But um yeah, so there's they're kind of they flip-flop around a lot too. There's four or five of them up there that do a lot of flip-flopping. But Max Trout camer for the first time and I don't know how long, but uh
011he made the second day he ended up finishing 19th overall in a section. So that's a you know a just sitting there it might not mean a big thing but it is a big thing making it to day two of the section tournament is is quality. So Max had a a great year in that and he obviously led our team. So that's that's pretty impressive. Chad it'd be Eli. Say that again. Eli Max graduated his brother Eli. Oh yeah. Eli not Max. We don't sure we give credit for credit. I got the I got the family right. It's the same family. Sorry, Eli. Yeah, it was Eli. Uh yeah, that was great. Um you know, the going into a couple other things, adapted softball, we do that with uh new Prague and a couple other
012schools. We were state runner-ups in that. So, I know it it's kind of getting repetitious to talk about, but we have some pretty amazing uh individuals that do some high they do very well in the state. Uh Tristan Seager, Emtt Walbeck, and Brook Casino were all on that uh that softball team. So, that's a hats off to that group. Um some of our other events, BPA and uh robotics and FFA, they go winter, some into the spring. So there's a lot of that carryover and I've already talked about that group, but they I'm talking about spring activities, I cannot recognize that group because they still were were going on at this time. And then uh talking about some of our fine arts, I would I would say uh we're going to lose one of our
013one of the best people we've had in our fine arts and that's Olivia Scalace graduating this year. She uh won the National Choir Award. She's a John Phillips Soua award winner. She's involved in all of our plays and everything. So, she as far as the what you know about the sports world, the fine arts world, she's a huge loss for us. Max Bud Mc Bodin was the Louis Armstrong award winner, which is one of our other major awards in in band and choir. Emma Mills was National Choir Award. Band merit awards were Cody Borch and Kendall Solder. And then the choir dire director's award was Josiah Valardi. So, uh, some top-notch kids in our our fine arts programs, and that's specifically the band and choir. Other than that, we, uh, we're in a good space.
014I think our the focus always on activities is getting bigger, getting faster, getting stronger. We, uh, we're getting bigger, bigger as far as our number size. All of our sports are growing. Um, as I even talked about and specifically with track and golf and some of those, we are we're getting bigger. We're getting more kids involved and uh the bigger, faster, stronger philosophy is if you've been able to get into our weight room, you if you haven't, you should. Our weight room looks drastically different. We've put just over $60,000 into that and that's basically come from a lot of just our sports teams just donations from the volleyball program and the basketball program and the uh baseball programs and some of those things. So that uh we haven't even solicited donations from outside. Some people
015have noticed we are doing it and have given us donations, but that is just growing and we are just doing it from it's basically from within at this point and it's pretty impressive the change down there. So, like I say, if you can get in there, you uh haven't, you should. We have another probably $15,000 worth of stuff coming this summer. We've taken the stuff here and put it in the center and they we have that open every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. So the junior high kids over there now get to lift weights. So that has been a big success for us which we've this is my seventh year. We've never had that before where we've had the weight room open over there in the summer. So that is a huge addition for us just
016for our our junior high contingent. And then uh last thing we're just in the most of you probably know but Bobby obviously resigned. So, we are in the interview process for that job and and we will close out that come July 7th because uh whoever it is better be ready to come in running. So, we are getting that going and just uh actually started the first day of small interviews today and we'll do big part of interviews next week. Any questions from the activities world that I can answer? You mentioned about um the track with the coaching. Yep. And the compliance. Is that a recommend just a recommendation or is that something that to look at? Funny thing is it's probably um something that never got passed down, but this was a recommendation from you
017the board, but prior to you guys, many of you were not here. Marsha's pro or you were the only one that was probably here in the beginning. Those were my recommendations to keep numbers at a one to or between 10 and 19. Um, I can share that with you. If you send me an email, I'll I can share it with you of who they are and where we're at. Um, we don't change them after one year. So, we did have a few that drop below 10 this year. That is year one. If it happens a second year, then it's kind of their warning year. And if the third year, then I remove a coach. And we if we're below that. So, you know, it's important to be on the eye of where our kids are.
018And uh but we also don't want to have three coaches for 12 kids either. So it we I do fluctuate it. There are times and and to be totally honest with you this you're probably going to get a thing because we are going to 99% we are going to need to have a third softball team next year. We had 17 kids on both softball teams A and B squad this year and it's not fair. And we have three in baseball. There's no reason we haven't in softball. And to be honest with you, it's hard because the other teams in the Big South Conference don't have it either. So, we're going to have to try to find teams. There's two in the Big South Conference that have a third team. Almost everybody has two, but they
019probably aren't sitting with 17 people on the bench. And we get you get six on each team that aren't getting to see the ball field. It it doesn't work very well. So, we have to I have to do better with that. So, I'm going to move forward on trying to find that and obviously we'll see if we can find someone. So, any other questions I can answer for anybody? No. Thank you for allowing me to speak today. Good luck on your uh my search. Your search? Yeah, we'll get there. I have no doubt. All right. Next, we got facilities. How's it going, guys? Good. Well, we're not that deep into summer yet, so it's not that big of a um chunk on here. Anybody been to the MK? Trevor, you were in there today. The
020flooring is all put in. But Yep. So, things have thin um it changed that entire space at the MK8. If you guys haven't been there, um the lunchroom looks bigger. It just feels better. It looks feels cleaner. We got a small section left of trim to do um that the manufacturer didn't even have yet. So, that'll be in sometime in August, but we're up to use it and we're going to be able to use it for uh summer school and the foods and all that stuff. So, we're not trying to shove kids in the link. And um we are still waiting on the rest of the flooring to be delivered to the LE center site, but all of the carpet has been placed. There's one small section of VCT that they have to strip up
021before they can put the carpet down. um because they assumed that the abatement guys were supposed to do it. Um but the abatement guys are extremely expensive. So I said don't abate anything that's not abatement. So um so they took the machines out. They just got to bring it back to a small section left and then uh hopefully by they're expecting by the 12th of August that they'll be completely done. Everything will be put in and away we go. Not of August, sorry, July, the 12th of July. um updates for this. Um the roof is supposed to start uh next week. We've sucked all of the rock off at the MK8 for the um above the gymnasium. They're going to come in. They're going to take off the top sheeting, uh replace all the rubber,
022all the membrane, fix anything that we have, um and then uh put all new rock on, tar everything up, and away we go on that uh project. They're also hoping to be out um by the end of July. They wanted to be out by the end of June, but weather doesn't always play a key role for them. Um, so and then the last project that we have um going uh was the gym floor. Anybody been over to the gym floor at the MK? It is just as beautiful as this gym floor. It doesn't feel like the same space. You don't think you're at the MK anymore. You're in a totally different space. Um, if anybody wants to donate some blue bleacher seats, I was going to say those red bleachers probably scream. I need to
023be changed. Um so and that is on um our LTFM um item for next year. Um they're not that expensive. It's just a big it's a big project. Um starting next week is the reheating of the center starts. The painting of the front of the center and the um robotics lab is all going to be painted. And um there's one more big project over there. Oh, we're waiting on finding out about the concrete. We have a small concrete heave over there that uh we're working on um finding the funds for to get that fixed and repaired over there as well. Um and then the new fire panel that will be going in at Lonzo also starts next week. Um and also rooftop unit 10 here that is not working, hasn't been working. Um that'll also
024be repaired. We should get another 5 years out of it. 5 to 10 years just depending on what it is. We're replacing the entire controllers and all the wiring in it. Um, so there's it's pretty much a brand new unit besides the motor that's in it. So, and we can always replace that down the road and keep it running. And that's kind of where we're at right now. We got some new machinery coming out uh coming around that me and Dion were able to fit into the budget to get um some bathroom cleaning equipment. Um pressure washers that will be able to kind of start removing that scent at the Lenture site. Um and uh it's it's it's a big pressure washer. Um ours are really outdated. People don't use Kyax anymore. Um that was
025a brand way back when and they're still around, but uh the Compass 2 system from Kurtner kind of taken the role of the number one. So that's what we have purchased and they'll last 15 to 25 years as long as we maintain them and take care of them. So um my guys are all super excited to get their hands on it because they they want the bathrooms cleaned just as much as everybody else does. Um and the Raptor systems all went in. Everything is up and running. Nobody gets to play with it until the secretaries come back a day late. They left on the 10th I believe and the system was all set up on the 11th and I was like well um so we're also super pumped about that. But everybody's updated. um and
026in the system. And uh hopefully we can run our first thing. Um anybody got anything on their background check they want to throw in there so we can see if it works? Yeah. But besides that, we're we're in good shape, guys. Uh we're moving in a great direction for this year. We got still a ton of projects going on um over July that I'm hoping is super smooth. Um and I can start knocking check marks off all these. Yes. Any questions about anything that we got going on in the facility world? Your staff on schedule, have a schedule? Uh, cleaning wise, um, everybody is on schedule as of right now where um, Ethan being his first big year um, all by himself over there. Um, he's nervous, but he's doing a great job. He's um,
027they're they're I would say they're ahead of the schedule, but he did take a vacation in between there, so I think he's sweating a little bit, but um, but he's doing great. Josh is doing great. We're we're everybody is doing great. David's actually ahead of the game here at the high school. We were not even close to being as far done as we are this year. We got a nice routine now going in a circle. Um and the teams have been we we have teams now that are really pushing to just get the job done, get the stuff back in the rooms and move on. So, it's it's good. Good. And you still have students working over the summer? No. No. Okay. Nope. We have one. um that that ended up if we can find
028students in the junior or senior level um I'm more than happy to travel back down that road but the younger students maturity things yeah yeah I was trying to find the best way to I'm not a sophomore not sure I'd recommend the work yet so so yeah um and so the one that's here she was here last year too um and she's fantastic I wouldn't trade her out I hope she becomes the custodian when she's all done. It's just that simple. Um and uh but yeah, and so now it's just uh instead of the two two student workers um at each building, now we only have one sub at every building all summer. Any other questions for Jeff? No. Thank you. Are you fully staffed now or are you still As of 48 minutes ago?
029Okay. Yeah. So, we didn't get it on this board packet. It'll be at the next one. Um Liz and Jose um they come from Lassour County. They own their own cleaning service. Um so they told me straight out they do not want to work mornings because they want to keep that going in the morning. Um but they want uh um they want a second job and they uh Jose has been here for now about two and a half weeks and he is absolutely amazing. You can tell that they own a cleaning service and I expect Liz to be just as fantastic at it. So and she's the one that I just hired about 48 minutes ago. Yeah. Cool. Yep. Good. Good. All right, guys. Appreciate it. Thanks for letting me chitchat. All right. Next, I'll
030uh seek a motion to approve the agenda. I'll make the motion. I'll second. I have a motion by Marshia Craft, seconded by Chris Blesock to approve the agenda. All those in favor? I. Those opposed? Motions pass 6. Next on the consent agenda, we have approval of minutes from the May 12th, 2025 school board meeting, the May 27th, 2025 board meeting. Under personnel, we have employment ending. Barbara Ton Sager, paraprofessional, Desiree Thompson, paraprofessional. Tyler Glenn, middle school student council adviser. Mario Rivera, custodial maintenance. Lydia Guthridge, teacher. Bobby Meyer, activities assistant. Under new hires, we have Rory Andersstrom, National Honor Society co-advisor. Carrie Trosef, National Honor Society co-advisor. Carrie Rinda, volleyball coach, junior high. Mason Deetsz, Kidzone, Lindseay Hombo, paraprofessional. Heather Benninghoff, ESY paraprofessional. Rebecca Bligenberg, ESY paraprofessional. Claire Kubish, ESY paraprofessional. Uh Rodalfo Basquez Munoz custodian
031maintenance under contracts work agreements work policy the director of technology for the from 2026 to 2028 superintendent contract 25 26 26 27 27 28 um then we have recommendation for tenure for the TCU high school TCU le center TCU lale TCU Montgomery and approval of bills in the amount of 940,000 uh excuse me 940,1408 and the finance report. I will seek a motion to approve the consent agenda. I'll make a motion. I'll second. Seconded. I'm sorry. Thanks, Susie. All right. Motion by Trevor Holmes, second by Steve to approve the consent agenda. All those in favor? Those opposed? Motion is passed 6. No open form today. So we will move on to QCOM presentation. Hi Jeff. Hey. All right. Jeff Bowman, uh, QCOM facilitator. Just our kind of our year- end wrap-up here report with you
032guys. Uh, Sarah Tupi will be taking my place next year. Uh so she'll be taking the lead on these going forward. Uh but overall we had a pretty successful year. Again uh 100% participation across the board through the Q comp process. For those remember uh Q comp is kind of a job embedded development uh that we use here at TCU to help our teachers pick strategies, things that they can use to help uh that they see will help their students grow in their classroom spaces. uh could be everything from uh learning coaching methods to different we had read going on this year. We had uh still have a lot of AVID going on in our buildings and teachers just choosing to find those strategies that well they can use to help uh themselves grow and
033they create a portfolio out of that information where then their their coach their their uh peer coach can actually sit down with them and have conversations about what they're seeing going on uh ways they can improve really helping them dive deeply into their thought process behind um what they're doing in their classroom and why and how they're seeing the successes that they're seeing. you can go forward. Uh just kind of an overview. See, we we still have foresight in structural leaders uh and 30 plus instructional coaches across the board. So, plus this district facilitator. Those are all staying. Uh those people do report to the uh QCMP kind of advisory board where they that's where a lot of the decisions come on and are uh decided on. Uh overall, you kind of see a few
034things here. Uh one of the things we we noted that we saw a dip in the collaborative learning team effectiveness. Um we contributed that to actually the readact with the redact this year. Uh that divided our program for those people who were in the redact versus those who were not. And our teachers really noted that they felt the divide. Uh that was kind of what drug the score down a little bit. Uh was that those people who were in the redact were collaborating with each other but they weren't collaborating with the whole. And so that that that's where the divide came. That's where we we believe that's where the percentage drop went. Uh but they did see uh as far as individual coaching, they felt that it was a little bit stronger this year. So
035that we see some improvements there. Uh just kind of a little quick overview of our portfolio process. So uh obviously the whole process is around collaboration with your peers uh as well as with administration. Uh and so we have kind of three different areas in which we kind of look forward to that collaboration taking place. First off is the planning area. uh just kind of like hey what am I going to do? This typically takes place in the September October time frame. What what are my thoughts? What what kind of goals do I want to set for myself? I we try to wrap those goals into our building goals that we're setting with our administrators of our different sites and kind of bringing all that together. Then in kind of November through April is our
036let's get deep, you know, let's start diving in. what kind of improvements can we make? How can we do what we want to do? And and what kind of evidence do we collect that shows that the things that we're doing is either effective or not effective and if it's not effective, what are we going to change to make it effective? Uh that's part of that imple implementation piece. And then our finalist here in May, they do a reflective slide where they kind of go back through what they did for the year. Uh talk about some of the their their highs and some of their lows and look at what they're going to potentially look towards doing next year. some examples some strategies that were used. Uh so the instructional playbooks were actually advertised over the
037last summer. Uh so we were able to really dive into those and use those as a key piece for a lot of the people who were not involved in the redact. They were really kind of going through those and picking pieces out of there. We still have press going on. Uh AVID obviously that's that's part of that those playbooks. uh the student self assessments were being implement like how do we have our students tell us what they would like to see more of. So there were some of the strategies rotated around that uh as well as just kind of overall academic language and vocabulary. Um those who were involved in the redact their portfolios looked a little different this year because the redact was so intensive in the collaboration the documentation just all the pieces
038that were involved in that uh what I say program. I platform platform that they were using. So that was kind of their portfolio for this year. So they took a little different different avenue and those are the required pieces of the artifacts that were in there. This kind of review for those who have been here for a while, these are always in there. Um so research, students analysis, uh discussion with another uh educator, focus observation, observing another educator are all pieces to our portfolio process. So they they're they're they need to show evidence in those areas uh at some point in time throughout the year. So some uh data from the uh survey we we asked teachers to kind of look at the effectiveness of our program. Uh you know what kind of things do
039we see to improve on? Um, here's one of our highs. You know, they the really people saying that they're seeing the strategies they were choosing were being effective with the students that they're using, you know, so that's a positive. Uh, and and if there wasn't, you know, they were looking at ways to tweak it like, you know, every strategy has different ways to present to different students. Uh, so the we we definitely saw some really high life, you know, the three and up is in the 90s, you know, you know, four four and up in the 70s, right? So, we're seeing some pretty effective things on the teacher side, seeing how it's working in their classrooms. So, just kind of to wrap up for the the year, things that we said we definitely want to
040keep. Obviously, the individual coaching teachers love the time to sit down and talk through things, uh, look at problems that are happening in their classroom and really brainstorm together on ways to help make that a better place. Uh, and just in overall in general being able to choose strategies on their own. So they they they give them a I guess you say brackets I guess where you could you could stay inside here you know but they have that choice I want to focus on more on maybe on my reading may want to focus more on my math you know whatever it happens to be they they have to just stay within that realm um so they love the having that choice and the ability to kind of choose through that uh and then obviously the
041support from the AVID team as they've implemented things some things oh and the science of reading program instruction the people who went through the science of reading just raved about the depth of knowledge they got from that look forward implementing next year. Few things that we need to look back at and kind of as they as they go to the the uh as they sit on as a team to kind of reook at um site coach train, they they really liked uh having their site coach train versus we usually did three times a year. We got them all together across the entire district all in one spot. They kind of liked having their own little more individualized based on what their building uh needed. So that was a piece that they really wanted to kind
042of look at and see if there was ways to maybe strengthen that a little bit. Uh as well as uh that CLT time. Are there ways that we can help bring some of the science learning people back in? Of course, we've just graduated a bunch of them. So the uh that's going to be it's a rolling ball. I think until we get that science reading kind of done, that might be just kind of a hanging shad that we have hanging there for a little bit. Uh but once we get out of that, then things are kind of go back to normal. questions. How did the Redact implementation go from a QCOM perspective? Uh, so Elida could probably probably elaborate more than I can. I But basically it was our K4 K4 Greg K4 K4K all
043of our intervention. Right. So the there was a lot of time in it that as far as what I heard from educators, you know, just a overwhelmed in the amount of time that they had to put into that training. Um, but everybody who walked out of it said they grew, you know, so that that part was awesome to see like they they were finding strategies, finding pieces that were really good for their classrooms. They just said it was a lot of work. So that that was kind of the two takeaways. But as far as as the Q prompt process went, um, we made it work. You know, we had to kind of deviate a little bit from our original plan to kind of help modify and to make it fit into our portfolio process. Um,
044but we were able to do so. And I get I was picking up on that kind of siloed some people, which makes sense given that it's K4. Um, do you see that as an ongoing thing or is that kind of just a one-time implementation type of I think it was a one-time implementation type thing. I think that now that they're done with that train that'll bring them back in. But of course, we are also are we we're going are we train continue to train on 58 next year with some different a some different departments, right? A little more departmentalized next year. I'm sorry. We have about 20 next year the following year. So there's as they go into it, those people will also kind of be siloed a little bit until they're done with the
045training and then they'll be able to move on. Okay. But you can grow from that too, knowing what the outcome of it was, you can try to tweak it a little bit to, you know, be a little bit more inclusive of everyone, too. So, I know I'm putting you on the spot, so I know what is kind of here, too. Um, my concern is always, it's more of a check-in. I I always see these mandates come through and then putting more work on people that are already worked enough, so to speak. And so I'm just curious how how that's being managed as far as what's the pulse on do they feel it's worthwhile they feel I I definitely think that there's a a big breath of relief once they finish you know to just get
046through it and uh but it was a lot of time I don't if you have anything to add to that yeah go ahead just join Jeff be easier the because it has gone really well the EL program like Jeff said is a it's a ton of work but I will tell you that the walkthroughs and people observing classrooms, even the teachers response is pretty been very heavily favored. So, so I think something that helped us here at TCU in compared to our neighboring districts is that we trained our building instructional coaches to be facilitators in the science of reading training. And so they were, you know, a kinder teacher had an issue and our instructional coach was out of the classroom willing to help embed those practices into their space. So that was a huge
047lift. We also provided them an additional time to do it. I mean, we had someone come into their classroom an hour a week for them to do it throughout the year. And we gave them all of their professional development days to complete the 64-hour training and paid them additional time outside of school. And so we we tried to take some of that off the plate. What we're facing now is that when we're looking at the read act, we're also looking at testing changes, intervention changes, professional development changes. Like the training was just a small component. Our teachers are feeling overwhelmed because of all of the additional mandates that are attached to the readact, not just the training. They can't make it easy, can they? They can't. And so we have tried the revolving door. Exactly.
048We tried really hard to streamline um as much as possible required specific curriculum. We've implemented that. Um it helped that some of our UC comp coaches were doing the work right alongside their peers. Um but it's stretching them. Yeah, I can piggyback back off of what Elias said that there was a lot of praise to the amount of time that was given during the exceptions made. you know, we didn't they were their PD was that this year like they didn't have the extra and you know that creates a little rift here and there as well but it's time right it's always about time and our TNL team so our twotosas and three instructional coaches spent days and weeks preparing and prepping the materials. So things that our kinder first, second, and third grade teachers would
049historically have to do like making those wonderful little games. I mean, we spent weeks cutting and laminating things. So, t and that seems so stupid when you say it out loud, but one of our biggest pieces of feedback was like those things were prepped. All we had to go do was to go to the file cabinet. They could actually focus on the prepping. And to support with that, we had our instructional coaches helping them with like what we're loose on and what we're tight on. So, they're implementing with integrity. We tried really hard. So, wasn't as stressful as it could be. It was still stressful but as it could be is the thing I'd like to add. Yeah. I have one more question. Yeah. Sorry it was a long answer. Is it more of just
050more perspective thing? So Eli, how long have you been here? It will be I don't know 18 months. Okay. Before we had the teaching and learning director was the position the position is relatively new. Yes. So, how would if a district didn't have a director of teaching learning, how would that have implementation like how would that have been handled? Do you feel Jeff? I'm just that's hypothetical. Yeah. Yeah. No. Um because that's what I think about when I think about the readact and all the implementation that and training and whatnot. I was thinking it would a lot of it would have fallen back onto our principles and them having the time to do that work. I mean, QCAP would have picked up some small pieces of it, but a lot of the planning and stuff
051that Elida has done to put all that together would have would have fallen back to our principles to try to get lined up for them. And yeah, so it would have been it would have been a lot. I don't think we would have called down the anxiety. Yeah. Well, you have to remember her position was at least two, you know, three or four different things coming together as one that was spread out throughout, you know, the the schools. So, yeah, I agree. One of the pieces with the readact was we have to employ a local literacy lead like that was part of the initiative and it's just that I'm I'm doing the work, which is fine, right? But um even MDE was like this is a lot of work for any district to take on.
052Um, I think between the principles and the instructional coaches is what where it would have landed with direction from Kevin. Sorry. No, no, that's all right. Any other questions? Any questions? I'm good. All right. Thank you. Thank you for all of the work. Thank you. Y and the continued work and support. Keep doing it down the road. Okay. Okay, no committee updates this time around. Um, next we have donations. I am introducing a resolution um that the board of ISD 295 accepts with appreciation the following donation and permits their use as designated by the donors. Tim and Abby, $1,000 high school waitroom lockers. Montgomery Fire Department, $3,270 for the Lee Center and Montgomery student needs. Joshua Newower Memorial Fund, $4,000 individual student needs. Nick Matthews, five pallets of wood, high school egg courses. I'll second.
053Uh, board member Hillary Birds introduced the resolution which was seconded by Chris Bless. This will be a roll call vote. Uh, Marsha, yes. Trevor, yes. Josh is a yes. Chris, yes. Hillary, yes. And Susie, yes. Resolution pass 6. Next, we have the fiscal year 26 preliminary budget approval. I will seek a motion to approve the fiscal year 20. I'll make the motion to approve. I'll second. Right. We have a motion by Marshia Craft, seconded by Chris Lesock to approve the fiscal year 26 budget. All those in favor? I. Those opposed? Motions pass 6. Next, we have the long-term facilities maintenance 10-year plan. So, this is also a resolution some Go ahead, Hillary. Sorry. I'm introducing the following resolution uh adopting the ISD 2905 fiscal year 27 long-term facility maintenance 10-year plan. I'll second it. I
054have a resolution um regarding the fiscal year 27 long-term facilities maintenance plan introduced by Hillary Berszo which was seconded by Marcia Craft. This will be a roll call vote. Marcia yes. Trevor, yes. Josh Em, yes. Chris, yes. Hillary, yes. And Susie, yes. Resolutions passed 6. A lot of resolutions. Next, we have the Southwest Metro Long-Term Facility Maintenance Levy. I am introducing the following uh resolution to approve Southwest Metro Intermediate School District number 288's long-term facility maintenance program budget and authorizing the inclusion of a proportionate share of those projects in the district's application for the long-term facility maintenance review. Have we done that before? Yes. Well, I don't remember. Okay. Did you say? Yes. So, I just It's just the proportionality of the All 13 members. Correct. Okay. All right. So, I think we're about Okay.
055Right. The resolution was introduced by Hillary Birds, second by Christock. This will again be a roll call vote. Marsha, yes. Trevor, yes. Josh, a yes. Chris, yes. Hillary, yes. And Susie, yes. The resolution is passed 6. Next we have the Southwest Metro Safe School Levy. I am introducing a resolution approving Southwest Metro Intermediate School District number 288 safe school program and authorizing the inclusion of the proportionate proportionate share of this program in the district's application for the safe school revenue. We need a second. I'll second it. Right. Resolution introduced by Hillary Berszo, seconded by Trevor Hone regarding the Southwest Metro Safe School Levy. This will be a roll call vote again. Marca, yes. Trevor, yes. Josh is a yes. Chris, yes. Hillary, yes. And Susie, yes. Resolution has passed 6. Can I coach? All right.
056Next, I will see the motion to approve the coaches and advisors for the 2526 school year. I'll make the motion. I'll second. Have a motion by Marcia Craft, seconded by Susie Rip, approving the coaches and advisers for the 2526 school year. All in favor? I. Those opposed? Josh, I thank you. Um motion has passed 50 Z with one abstain. Next I'll seek a motion to approve the 2526 high school fundraisers. I'll make a motion. Second. I have a motion by Hillary Birds, seconded by Chris Blesach approving the 2526 high school fundraisers. All those in favor? I I those opposed. Motion has passed 6. Okay. Overnight trips. Um I'll need a motion approving the 2526 high school overnight trips. I'll make a motion. I'll second it. Motion by Trevor Holmes, second by Chris Blesock approving the
0572526 high school overnight trips. All those in favor? Those opposed? Motion has passed 6. Next we have the activities handbook updates. I'll seek a motion approving the 2526 activities handbook. I'll make a motion. I'll second. All right. Have a motion by Susie Rip, second by Hillary Bzil approving the 2526 activities handbook. All those in favor? Those opposed? Motion has passed 6. All right9. Next we have the capital levy approval. I'll need a Go ahead. Sorry. I am introducing the following resolution uh relating to the to determining the necessity of issuing general obligation bonds in the amount of 39,990,000 for acquisition and betterment of school sites and facilities and calling a special election on Tuesday, November 4th, 2025. I need a second. I'll second it. All right. All right, I have a resolution introduced by Hillary
058Bzel uh seconded by Marcia Craft regarding capital levy approval. This will be a roll call vote. Marsha, yep. Trevor, yes. Josh is a yes. Chris, yes. Hillary, yes. And Susie, yes. Resolution is passed 6. All right. Next, we have I'll be a motion regarding the uh Lonzo Community Foundation grant. I'll make a motion. Second motion by seconded by Trevor Hone to approve um the Lonzel Community Foundation grant in the amount of $3,96343. All those in favor? I. Those opposed? Motion is passed 6. Next, I'll seek a motion to approve the Compier financial grant of $4,000 for CTE courses. I'll make a motion. I'll second. That was Chris. Sus. I'm sorry. I was Thank you. And that was Hillary. Seconded. Yep. Motion by Susie Rip, seconded by Hillary Bzil approving the acceptance of a grant in
059the amount of $4,000 from Compier Financial for high school CTE courses. All those in favor? I. Those opposed? Motion has passed 6. Next, I will seek a motion to adjourn the meeting at 5:48 p.m. I'll make the motion. I'll second. All right. I have a motion by Marshia Craft, second by Trevor Hol to adjourn the meeting at 5:48 p.m. All those in favor? I. Those opposed? Motion has passed 6. So, why didn't we just go one more? $ 399.99.