001Yeah, welcome everyone to our meeting, our regular board meeting for November. Um, I don't believe we have anyone okay for the open forum. So, I'll look for approval of today's agenda. So, >> is there a second? Second. Any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor signify by saying I. >> I oppose the same sign. Okay. Motion approved. Um donations, Mr. Durban. >> Good evening, school board, board clot, and uh Superintendent Hy. Uh so this month's donation list um so these are donations in the month of October. Um we had um I think uh various donations towards the student band account. Um Albert Lee Lakeview Lions have donated $750 to the care closet and $250 to the southwest middle school special product projects. Um, at a choir concert and orchestra concert, we have donations uh totaling
002$162 for each uh student account. Uh, the Blackbod giving fund, $42 towards the Brookside Early Childhood. Um, and then the Minnesota Vikings Foundation Coach of the Week, that thousand donation some of you may seen on social media uh towards our football program. Um, Holly and Chris Dah, $100 to our FFA program. Jud Thorson, $25 towards FFA. Um, Boys Hockey Association, $200 towards our new mascot. U, we've seen a number of booster clubs contributing there. It's nice to see. Uh, Home Homestead Boutique, $50 to our student council. And then, uh, October band concert donations, $240, uh, to our band account. Um, so we ask for your approval of those donations this evening. was a okay. So, uh we'll work on that as we go. Other than that, uh then all those in favor signify by saying
003I. I oppose the same sign. >> All right. Motion carries and uh we're off to the reports. Dr. Hy Well, thank you for the opportunity uh to speak tonight. You'll see there's accidentally did one slide twice. So, we'll we'll do the district task force update real quickly. We had 25 out of uh 27 uh people in attendance that were invited. That does not include uh myself, um Darcy, um the board members and stuff. So there was a there was a good group of about 34 35 people there. Um we covered mainly uh the first night was to talk about why the why we were going to have uh the task force and and what they're looking at. Um so Saul was there from W. So she covered a lot of that wool data. Um so
004that took a while because there was a lot of number of questions that were asked in there like what does that mean? Um then Paul came in next shared some of the financial data, the enrollment data and we kind of talked about um how finances are how the schools are funded um areas like that. And if you got anything to add, you can. Um but uh tried to really educate our task force on the um the district and what we're looking at enrollment wise, uh building wise, um and kind of the connection of all that. Um everything was recorded, so we're waiting for the the final rendering of the recording uh to be done. They're hoping to have that done tonight. And then I have uh Adam from it is building a a web page
005for us. Um, and we were going to put it just kind of like if you hit district, look for task force. Uh, talking with Darcy and talking with Adam a little bit earlier today, we changed our minds and we're going to have it kind of a landing uh, page sort of like with the superintendent hiring so that everybody can find it really easy because again, we want it to be transparent. So, as soon as that uh, video gets done, we'll have the video upload. We'll have the PowerPoints that were used that night. Um there's a video by Sean um that was on there. He was uh out of town last week, so he provided some information to the committee. Um so we'll have that video on there. And then what we what we figure is
006every time we have a committee meeting, we'll have the date and then we'll have all the resources so that anybody from the community can look at the resources, can view the video, and then if they've got additional questions, they can go ahead and reach out to myself or Darcy and we can find them the answers answers that they need. So, that's kind of how the first task force night went. Okay. So, moving on to um the strategic plan update. Um so, we're currently out. We've got uh some feedback from staff right now. Um I'm going to send some feedback out to a couple of the student groups to get feedback on it um next. Um but here's kind of where we're at. So, um, you have a document right here that on the top says
007we are Tigers. So, I just kind of summarize the explanation there. Um, kind of reminding staff, we didn't change our mission, we didn't change the vision, we didn't change the motto. Um, and we kept the daily uh the desired daily experiences and the district and classroom theories of action um intact. And the reason for that was there was a lot of community, parent, staff input in those areas. Um, not that there wasn't for uh the old core values and the old strategic uh directions. Um, but they they just didn't seem to align with the direction that the board wanted to go the district and when I talked with staff members and I talked with school board members. So, if you remember at our last work work session, we came up with tigers. Somehow the tea
008got uh off there, but um you can kind of see on on your page. Um but more importantly, we had some um improvements. So So we got some staff and there was some a couple of staff members that were rather aligned in and their improvements. So um not reading directly, but like if you remember, Tigers was teaching. We deliver highquality instruction grounded in literacy and aligned to a guaranteed viable standards ensuring every student advances academically, socially, and emotionally as a lifelong learner. Um, then what I did is I put our core intent next to it. So, instructional excellence, literacy as a foundation, student growth and achievement, and then we tied it into what we're aligning to the PLC's, the literacy, the HRS1 and two, academic rigor, and continuous improvement. So that's how we would look
009at teaching provided with an icon. Next with innovation, you'll see there's uh go back to that first slide, Darcy. uh with innovation you can see in red um we embrace so purposeful uh innovation to enhance learning expand opportunity and equip students with the skills and adaptability required to thrive in their prek12 experience as well as college career and community life. So uh some feedback came back and the more I thought about it was they were staff was 100% right. This was kind of written for students in the graduate form but not necessarily as they're going through our entire system. Um so we kind of in the innovation we kind of want to make sure we talk about that prek12 experience for grit. Um uh we foster uh resilience, responsibility and sustained effort in student students
010and staff cultivating a culture where hard work, perseverance and continuous improvement drive a growth mindset in their personal and academic development. Um so staff uh in in getting feedback from staff they thought with the grit that you really have to have that growth mindset connected to that. So I thought that was really good feedback there. Empowerment stayed relatively the same. We empower staff and students through collaboration, professional learning and shared leadership, ensuring every individual has a support and authority to contribute to collective success. uh readiness we added uh so we prepare students for each stage of prek to 12 learning college career and life by promoting rigorous learning character development and real world skills needed to positively impact our community and you'll see in there that's that whole child development thought so taking in all
011the seal um um and life skills and character development included in there so and then With systems, we create aligned, reliable systems while acting as responsible stewards of our resources and community trust, ensuring sustainable success and continuous growth for every student and staff member. Um, and ultimately that's what we talked about as a board. Um, and why we stayed with systems over stewardship or anything like that. So taking it a step further, I thought to myself, okay, so if I'm a student, um what would I what would I really say? How would I say this as a student? So Tigers, how we learn and lead. Um teaching, we learn every day and push ourselves to grow. Innovation, we try new ideas and prepare for the future. Grit. We work hard, stick with challenges, and don't
012give up. Empowerment. We make good choices, and take responsibility for learning. Readiness. We prepare for all grade levels, preK12, college, careers, and life and systems. We follow routines, take care of our school, and support each other. Um, the interesting thing with that is when I kind of said, "What's the goal behind this for a student?" I thought it was really interesting that be your best, help others succeed, make a positive impact. Thought that was pretty pretty good when you when you talk with schools about what does tigers mean? And then the the additional goal that came out of that is daily tigers show effort, kindness, and leadership. when we look at kind of here I said teacher version but staff version um I said okay so if I'm a staff member that teaches at Albertly
013area schools um what does Tigers mean to me and Tigers came out to how we learn and lead so we teach every student with excellence and literacy first we evolve learning to prepare students for a changing world effort responsibility and perseverance drive success everyone leads everyone learns everyone No one contributes for readiness. We prepare every student for life beyond graduation. And for systems, uh, strong systems ensure consistent, safe, and successful schools. So, those are kind of just little little things to think about as we as we further develop this. Um, so as you think about it, uh, as a board, your input would be greatly appreciated. Um, but I think these tying them down a little bit more to to having maybe just a little saying about how what we do impacts that. And the
014more I worked with this, the more I came out with um because I've talked with some staff members about developing the Albertly way, developing the Tiger Way, really this is developing that we are Tigers. And so I think it ties it in real nice. Um, our our ultimate goal is a high reliability school system focused on student success, staff excellence, and community trust. And then the tagline they kind of that that we worked out here was together we're building high reliability, high reliability learning organization, one student, one classroom, one team at a time. I think it's a positive way to really talk about what we are trying to accomplish here. And of course with me I've got to monkey around with stuff. So if we go to the last one. So that is a possible
015way to add this a little bit to our logo of always learning. And we could do it many different ways. Um but I thought just a little bit slight adjustment doesn't mean it has to be on everything but it's a good way to talk about Tigers and to have it out in front of everybody. It almost becomes our seal. Very good. Any thoughts? I I like the way that logo came together there, too. Give get the Tigers in there. And I just It's again, I like how the Tigers is able to come together being our mascot, but also, you know, what our teaching and learning is all about. So go ahead and uh take it home, let it meander through your brain a little bit. Um see how everything kind of fits together. Tanya and
016I worked a little bit. Uh Tanya K said I want to embed this a little bit in there to see how it looks. So as we go through our Caker um uh presentation, we'll see how this ties in a little bit and that should help us get a little additional feedback. Um like I said, I'm going to go to some students and have get their opinion on it. um what they think. Um and hopefully in a month we're ready to roll this out because more importantly, we can say all this stuff and have all all this papers right, we can have it on the website like it currently is a strategic roadmap, but until we decide to live it, um it's just words. So that'll be the key as to how we start to embed
017this and what we do on it on our daily experience for all of our students and families here in Albertly. Thank you. >> Maybe even highlight a study session. Uh, one with teaching, one with innovation, one with grit, you know, go right through it. >> Yeah. Yeah, we can. Yep, we can do that. I I found myself today was at a couple of schools talking with um some individuals and they were like, "Well, if only we had a way to do this." And I said, "What you're really talking about is the fact that you could be empowered as a teacher to try some innovation in your classroom, take that data and share it with everybody else to see how well your students are doing by using that new innovation." And so they looked at they
018said, "I like the way you said that." I go, "Well, I like the way it came out, too." So, so I think it's a matter of um taking the big leap of when we do this, okay, do we got it right? And then and then now let's start living it. Thank you very much. Schoolboard reports. Let's go with Kim. We'll start your direction. >> Thank you. Um last week Gary and I met with Tanya on district curriculum committee work. Um Gary and I were not able to attend the full curriculum committee, but you're going to hear uh great content tonight. So, I appreciated Tanya's extra time with us to be able to walk through that and and she um I think she might have added some feedback that we gave in the report. So, that's
019even better. Um we also had a policy committee meeting tonight and we'll be talking about one of those policies tonight, but also looked at some for further review. And that's I think all I have >> lots been going on since we met last met at a business meeting. Um on the 21st of last month, we had the curriculum committee meeting that Gary and Kim didn't make. Um but I was there and uh it was very interesting meeting and one of the most interesting discussions that resulted in that meeting was how we as a board repeatedly hear how our students are doing from every building that we have and how our students are doing is measured in terms of how they perform on MCA tests and the discussion sort of uh con the conclusion of the
020discussion was that uh that's not a very reliable tool that measures how our students are doing. And it would really be nice if we could come up with some better instrument that would indicate how well our students are doing. And um we didn't come to any conclusion about how that could happen or or or should happen. But it's it's been a concern of mine for a long time. Um I I just you know I'm I'm thinking that there has to be a better method of determining how our students are doing than how they do on tests for which they have really no interest in taking. So um been at the attended the ins uh insurance committee meeting on the 4th of this month and um Aaron Casper does a very fine job in presenting information
021to us and he's his his company or or is does a great job in in uh providing us with some good advice in terms of self insurance in terms of our Health at work clinic and uh educating our staff on how they could really improve on their health care if they would take full advantage of the opportunities that are out there uh with our well at work clinic and and v various aspects of that. uh and uh and and if they would uh take full advantage of what's out there, would it would it cost less? And I'm very concerned about about uh doing everything we can to reduce the cost of the health care that our employees receive without compromising the quality of that health care. So, uh those are good discussions. uh education foundation
022been there's a lot going on there. One of the things that you know that we listed with the donations that doesn't come out there's a lot of money that comes out of the education foundation doesn't show up in the form of donations. uh chamber bucks is one of them and um four times a year for at the end of each quarter the ALC uh gives us a report of students that have earned chamber bucks and then we contribute uh buy those chamber bucks from the chamber of commerce and uh those chamber bucks then are given to the ALC students. So that's one of the things that that uh wasn't that isn't uh I hadn't mentioned before. uh and the U CEO program uh Gary is is on on that comm or on that board and
023so he's more intelligent about how that program is working but we are the fiscal agent for that. So been an awful lot of activity uh going on in connection with that CEO program which which is a I think pretty good idea. Uh the task force Dr. How mentioned that and I was attend out Gary and I uh were at that and Angie no Dave I'm sorry and James were on that on that task force and u my uh my read on what went on there was that the purpose of the the the practical result of this task force is going to facilitate the district informing the public who are represented at that task force uh about what we do, what we use in order to do be able to do what we do, what all
024that costs, and how we're going to pay for it. Uh I I think that you know it's good for the public to kind of uh wear our shoes for a while and identify with the with the practical aspects of of running a school district and and u that that that's uh that's going to be healthy. I think that's it. That should be it. That's enough. Uh I attended the Freeborn County Family Service uh collaborative board meeting. Um the grant request this time was from the Krin community for to celebrate the Krin New Year publicly and more details will be coming on that. Um I think their date is December 10th if they or December 20th. Um but anyway, the collaborative gave them money so the public um it'd be open to the public, but more
025details will be coming on that. Did uh school visit, school site visits with Dr. Hyle. I think we've done them all now except um Brookside and today we did Halverson and it was fantastic and seeing the engagement of kids and um the teachers and the HRS in action. Um it was fantastic. So, thank you, Principal Larson. Um, so that was good and a good reminder of why we're all here, of keeping us grounded, what's best for kids. And then, uh, I was sitting on the LPN negotiations and we met last week on that. So, more details will be coming on that. >> All right. have done a number of things, but um the top couple things that stand out are last week I sat in on the negotiations again with the custodians. Dave joined in
026for the first part of that. Um and we'll talk more about that in close session. I do think Paul and Ashley did a very good job. Just wanted to mention that. Um, and then a couple weeks ago I attended with Neil the insurance committee meeting which he mentioned and um, currently our projected premiums are going to rise 13% next year. Um, it could be less than that if our claims are low for the next few months. So, it's been really helpful to sit in on negotiations um, and see how insurance really affects all of that. So, um, something I've been thinking a lot about talking to Neil about. Um, we don't have a date set, but I think in the future we'll be meeting with Dr. Hy and Paul and talk a little bit more
027about ideas with insurance premiums. So, that's what I've got. >> Oh, good. Um, took some uh seventh grade girls basketball. I learned quickly talking to the coach that when a community has a AAOU basketball for their youth, it does show. And so uh that was interesting discussion took in some girls hockey um the facility task force um that was mentioned previously. I do want to say that as a board member I appreciated the cander and the frankness that was displayed on our data and a challenge and I think Dr. Highland and Paul made it very clear that we're not cutting our way out of any financial challenges we might have. So, this is going to be critical to help us uh with our financial picture. Served on the policy committee and I think it very
028clear now that Kim and I didn't make it to the curriculum committee, but we had a meeting with Tanya to review some critical data and posed some questions about how can we better measure the academic achievement of our students. Uh I think I displayed my frustration at the last meeting with MCA. On a personal note, I also serve on the Navy Healthc Care Foundation and its awards committee and uh you got the notification on the almost $14,000 for athletic training services and CPR. So, I'm glad to be able to participate in that and see the school district benefit from that. That's it. >> Just a couple additions. The task force was very interesting. Um, great group of people, lots of information, and uh, again, just reiterating uh, Dr. How's comment, we just can't cut our
029way out. Now, we have to continue to cut part of our way out, but we do have to look at some efficiencies. And I think that's in everything we do, not just in a business, in a school district, in our personal life, but uh the way things are changing, as uh Angie said too, even just with health insurance premiums, uh is uh you know, and I I still, you know, and this is an idea that I'm bringing up for us for next year. um then to to look at MSBA and give a presentation on our on-site clinic because I really think uh Aaron Casper, he's a board member up in Eden Prairie, uh he coming in to be able to visit about the benefits that we've seen here. And if we're talking potential 20 30%
030increase, just imagine what it would be without that on-site clinic. Unbelievable. But now that is the world we live in. I can give you a little bit of a insurance background on that. It's just not pretty anywhere. It doesn't matter what or whom you've got. Um but anyway, no, the task force was very interesting. Look forward to those other uh meetings we have. I also had a quarterly Zoom meeting with MSBA getting us set up for the delegate assembly which uh we'll have a couple there and look forward to that. Um, and I think that's Oh, just to answer you mentioned the AU BA basketball used to have Elks basketball. I don't see probably any Elks families in here then maybe. Okay. You played then, Casey. I mean, it was an interesting time. They used
031to get their little blue jackets when they played and it was a lot of fun. But yes, the more the merrier for opportunities. So, anyway, that's that will be it for our schoolboard reports. Let's uh head over to our school board member report. Alandra. >> Okay. So, since we've last met, the Alahasa issue 3 came out not that long ago. It's a really good issue. You guys can um read it on the alahasa.com. Uh two of our students entered into the Waldorf College writing contest and they won $19,000 in renewable scholarships. So, that was really exciting for them. One was a sophomore, her name was Gracie, and then one was a junior, his name is Hans. Uh, football wrapped up a couple weeks ago, and Sam McGill is getting the honor of getting to play
032for the Vikings Allstar High School game. Very exciting. Can't remember the name of it. It's too long for me to remember, but really exciting for him. I think their game is on like December something. Um, Tiger's Roar is this Friday and Saturday, so that'll be at 7 o'clock. Jazz Band plays pre-show, so Jazz been sounding really good this year, so definitely something to come out for. And our girls hockey team is 3 and 0 in the season and they have a game on Thursday. And that is all. >> Thank you. I think isn't this sports starting this week for everybody now? I was thinking so girls get a little bit of a head jump but on the hockey so that'll be interesting something to go watch again. So that's old people look for that stuff.
033Anyway, go ahead. Hey, go ahead and give your name. How many years you've been with the district uh and some of your duties and things and then your news. Thank you. >> Okay. Um my name is Peter Senborg. I'm French teacher at the high school. I've been in the district 10 years now. So, uh, yeah, I teach all levels of French, so I get some kids all five four or five years of high school. So, that's pretty awesome. Um, but yeah, uh, I have some notes from my from the building directors from the ALA for our high school student council. Food drive is taking place this month. The goal of raising 16,000 pounds. Proceeds will go to students at the school to help with need during winter break. Um, teachers and staff at the high
034school have been participating in Love Mondays, which is where we show our love for Mondays, which which is some kinds a stretch, but we've been doing dress up days and giving secret dress up days. Today it was all black. I didn't get the memo. I kind of stood out. um and and greeting the students at the entrances with high fives and the kids seem to be kind of into it and energized. So um it really does sort of like make Mondays a little special for for us and for the kids too. Sibi hosted a kindness counts school family night on November 6th. They made cards and bookmarks for the residents of St. John's Lutheran Home, Fountain Lake. A couple of students were then able to take them to the um to St. John's and pass
035them out to residents. Sibly had their annual Veterans Day program with the honor guard posting the colors and demonstrating the flag folding ceremony. Fourth and fifth graders recited poems and the tiger choir sang some songs. There's also a slideshow of the veterans in our sibly families. Alca had two graduates already this year. and the MAP stars program students visited Good Samaritan Nursing Home to thank on November 11th to thank the veterans for their service. Hawthorne also had a Veterans Day concert where the second and third graders performed. Third graders were also performing at Thornest. Um conferences were good. 90% of families were able to attend. And next week they're having a fancy lunch where the kids dress up and practice good manners. Um, and Hawthorne also has three groups of students in the reach program
036from the high school coming every other week. And they are working on reading and math activities in small groups in kindergarten, second, and third grades. >> Very much. All right, moving along. We've got a couple principal reports. Zack, Joanna, come on up. Okay. Good evening, everybody. Thanks for having us here. Um Neil, I was I went back into my document and the um education foundation has donated over $30,000 now for the pause program over the years. So for those chamber bucks, um so yeah, first quarter $795 went out towards the students for meeting their credit goals for the quarter. So yeah, it's pretty awesome program and the students really look forward to it. Um some things going on at the ALC recently. Um stu this is what students have participated in so far um up
037to this point. the fall leadership conference went um for the map stars students and they came back very motivated to um involve things uh for the whole school things that the whole school can participate in. So they did arrange a dodge dodgeball tournament and the um staff ended up playing the winning um student team and the staff of course won. So, um they've also done uh pumpkin painting around um Halloween fall time. They did visit the veterans at Good Samaritan and they've most recently uh started uh the students have started a thankful display and they are involving the adult education program and the 18 to 22 program. Um, on December 1st, the staff will our next staff day, our staff will be participating in our continuous improvement plan with Cindy Mullins from Compass and and
038working on our um our improvement plan because of our designation with all the information that you have on that. So, any questions? Okay. Awesome. School board, Dr. Hy, thanks for having me. Um, so kind of figuring out what I wanted to present tonight. So, I wanted to take the opportunity to celebrate the amazing staff at Lake View, share a little data with you to show the work that they've put in and the outcomes that we are seeing with it. So, I looked at our school continuous improvement plan. Um, and with that really focusing right now on social emotional learning as well as um, as well as attendance I put in there as well. So, I wanted to share a little of where we've been, uh, what's the data showing and then kind of what our
039families and students have to say about their experience at Lake View right now. slide. What? >> Thank you. Let's try that again. So, this is a quote that hangs in my office and something that embracing it as we headed into this school year. Um, just knowing that there's always that opportunity as I even look up at the wall. we're always learning and there's that opportunity for continuous improvement and our staff embraced that. So, we focused in on these three pieces as we came into this school year. Um, one, my goal is that I empowered our staff to manage their spaces through a responsive classroom reboot. Um, and have that be our ongoing focus. So, we have focused on that from when we started in August all the way up to um we've done staff meetings
040to our most recent academy day. We focused on that. What's really cool is we have some staff that haven't been trained yet and we have some that have been trained 10 years ago and a mix in between. So being able to leverage those voices and have them share their experiences. Um along those lines, we also recognize as a as a staff feedback from last year, clear consistent expectations across our building which we built but with our staff. So there's embracing that as well. And last, the consistent focus on our social emotional learning lessons in every classroom building self-regulation and in school community. So, what's the impact been? You can see a couple of these. So, we had can do kids when I arrived three years ago and our staff just recognized that need for clear
041expectations. So, we rebuilt these and these are now posters that you'll see if you walk through our halls. So, that shows an example of our hallway ones, but our staff built these. They took what our old kind of language was and built it over and then added some of these others. What's been really neat is I was talking to some students at lunch the other day and they're like, "Mr. Krueger, I showed Lake View cares in our community and this is how I did it." And being able to see them take that out into our community and being able to have a common language that they can follow has been really, really cool. So, every Monday I do announcements where I highlight one of our components from our Second Step curriculum. Then on Friday, I
042do video announcements. We're not only celebrating positive office referrals but also being able to highlight an area where maybe we need to continue to focus on with Lake View Cares. On the right hand side you can see a parentf facing document that we shared with our parents at conferences so they had a clear understanding what responsive classroom was, what CARES was. Um we also redesigned our vision vision at Lake View so staff were able to give feedback in August. We took it to our leadership team. You'll notice that last line there. um supportive environment through strong Lake View community partnerships. Just that recognizing that we really want to find ways to empower our parents and partner with them. Um so as we look at our family and community engagement group that is working at Lake
043View and all of our schools, that's an area we're going to continue to focus on to really get our families involved in their students learning as well. So the next couple of slides are going to share what I feel is absolute kudos to our staff and the results of some of the work that we've been able to put in. So I know attendance has come up a lot right now. This is our average daily attendance by month. You can see right now um November we are rocking it right now. But I think that shows our kids have a connection point. Even some of our students that are struggling with attendance. We are looking at a way I know that I personally greet I have my list of five kids. I find them each day and
044say we are so glad to have you here today and to see their smile and light up. Teachers are aware of that and they're making that space where they are welcomed and feel valued. and that's what gets our kids there on a regular basis. But you can see the results here of really having some great data of showing we are getting kids to Lake View each and every day. Next, I want to show our CARES team call. So, just contextwise, our CARES team is a couple individuals and myself. So, when we have a student that does need that extra additional support in a classroom, our CARES team is responsive um to that. You'll see 2425 the call totals. You'll see 25 26 on the right hand side. You can see that consistent decrease, but you
045can see the November one especially. I know we're halfway through the month, but we are looking at a 77% decrease in the number of times we've needed to support a student. Um, and that could be as simple as I need to have that RNR reset and restore just that regulation piece to um maybe a disruption in the classroom and our CARES teams available. So that I think is showing just that continued work that our staff are doing and seeing the outcomes of students are being more supported in the space and not needing any additional support. So I think that really speaks to that piece. Next up I wanted to show disciplinary incidents and positive office referrals. So with our discipline incidents you can see on the left hand side that can be anywhere from a
046bus referral believe 10 of those actually are bus referrals um to situation happens in a classroom if I am involved and I have where there's a consequence related to that um that's where those incidents come into play so you can see September was a spike but as that shows and it shows with our cares calls too not only are teachers setting those expectations very clearly in our classroom our students are responding but you'll also see that our multi tiered systems of supports in place to support those students that arose arose in September. They came to that team and we were able to provide those supports ongoing and you can see that consistent decrease in the needs being met um by our amazing staff. So I think that speaks to it on the right hand side.
047Cool stat. So 225 is where we are at right now. So our positive office referral forms have cares on the side and our staff highlight that. Last year we had 135 total. This year at November we have 225. Um so really powerful and I always like to see that doubling or tripling the positive versus if it is a disciplinary incident. So I wanted to lay that out. I think that's a huge piece I wanted to share and this is going to our staff. They are the ones that are putting the amazing work in. This just came back from our HRS surveys both staff and parents. So the top one shows 87% of our staff. One of the questions with HRS is do you feel our environment is safe and orderly? 87% said yes, it is
048absolutely. 109 of our families filled out our HRS level one survey, which is really huge. We used a three-point rating scale and we had two separate questions. Is our space safe and is it orderly? So, you can see 100% of our families rated our school at that mid to high range. So, either the two or the three. 79% gave the highest rating for safety and 75% gave the highest rating for being orderly. So, I think those are some parent voices. This happens to be American Education Week. So, I'm celebrating our staff all week today. They got popcorn bar, they have beverages later, hot beverages. So, just different things we're doing to celebrate them. Another thing I did was asked our families to fill out just a Google form to thank them. So, these are just
049some of the voices that came through from that Google form. So, you can read some of those um parent notes on that slide. I really love the one every day you show up, pour into, and love on our kids. and it does not go unnoticed. Um, I was reading through them and tearing up as I saw these families sharing their heartfelt feedback for the amazing staff that we have at Lake View. So, these are just a few snippets of that. So, that is just what I wanted to share with you, kind of updating you on our school continuous improvement, but showing tremendous work that our staff has put in and seeing the data showing there has been a significant impact as well. I do have one last thing to share, but were there any questions
050before I share that last piece? Because we are missing one important voice. It's our students. So, I have a video I wanted to share to end, but okay. Now, how do I make it play? Darcy, you got it. Thank you. >> Hi guys. Today, I want to be telling you guys what is my favorite thing about Lake View. I like about math because you can learn everything that I like to learn and it's like so excited for me and my friends. >> What I love about Lake View is the teachers are really nice. >> I love Lake View because I like hanging out with friends and learning something new every day. >> One thing I love about Lake View is the teachers because um they help me learn and they're just all really nice. >>
051To go to recess and have so much fun at school. >> I love art. My favorite is the high school. >> Fun. People like going here. >> Math. I like doing math. >> I like because people are kind and they help you learn. >> I My favorite thing is the library about school. >> My favorite thing about Lake View is learning. I love dinosaurs. So, I like friends that are nice here, and I like art and drawing. I also like the teachers that are very nice. >> My favorite part about school is math and artworks, snack, and lunch. >> I like recess time, learn how to read >> cuz the teachers are nice and all the kids are nice. And the playground's a nice playground, too. I like playtime in Hotwoods >> because at recess
052you can play with um a bunch of things like you can play soccer, kickball or four square. >> My favorite is to play with my friends >> when we go on field trips like the pumpkin patch, the walkathon, the color run, and I like having friends at school. One thing I love about being a student at Lakefield is how friends are nice and caring. >> It's cuz you have multiple friends and they help you when you're hurt or when you are lonely and you want to play with somebody. You have lots of things to do with them and in common with them. So you could do whatever you would like to do with them. >> We have Mrs. See your lessons because we could use like robots and we could go on our computers or
053with the singer lessons. >> I like to have recess and play um soccer and and I like to have a lunch. >> I like how kind and respectful the teachers are. Making new friends and uh getting along with teachers. I love seeing friends and hanging out with my kindergarten buddy. >> Show of respect about Lakeville kids. I get to come and be with my friends and do fun activities. >> My favorite thing about Lake View is hanging out with my friends and like playing soccer. >> My favorite thing about Lake View is the teachers. They help us learn and help us um understand new things. So, I love my class because like it's they're so kind and they always want to help out. And my class is like really like um like they share a
054lot and they help me out mostly mostly my friends and my teacher. My teacher is Miss Mccura and she's really nice. And our men and gym, they're like really like equal and they like if they're out, they will be out. But some people, they just don't want to play cuz they don't want to get hurt. My favorite thing about Lake View is media with Miss Seager. We get to do all kinds of fun STEM activities. My favorite part about Lake View is that everybody here follows the Lake View cares. >> One thing I love about school is the my friends and the teachers. >> Thing I like most about Lake View Elementary School is that people are so kind. I like math because whenever I'm finished, I can help others with it and then it
055just makes me feel like good because I'm helping others. I love Lake View because we have some really nice teachers here and we get to do awesome fun super fun crafts and the teachers are really nice to us with the crafts and we get a lot of parties and sometimes you get sad and mad. But um you have friends to help you get along with that. Hello like everybody and my name is Jackson and I've been here for a while and I think everybody should come here cuz it's a very nice place here and I want everybody to know how much fun it can be and we do so many fun events like towards the start of the year you get a chance to be principal of the day and other parts which is my
056personal favorite is just getting to meet all of my new friends and getting to learn math. >> I couldn't cut anybody out, so I had to leave them all in. So, I apologize for the length, but thank you so much for letting me share. >> Thanks. All right, moving on. Uh Tanya, talk about our comprehensive achievements civic. What was the old name again? Tanya, >> world's best workforce. >> There you go. Thank you. Now it's comprehensive achievement and civic readiness. Darcy, will you click on that? Oh, it worked. Okay. All right. Good evening, Chair Claw, Dr. Hy, school board. Tonight, I am presenting the comprehensive achievement and civi civic readiness annual report. Um, I put a close copy um at each of your spots this evening. Please know that tonight is a draft that you're
057looking at. I am um going to give a few shoutouts before I get started. I'd really like to shout out to our principal leadership team at the fall data retreat. Um they gave amazing feedback this year on our comprehensive achievement and civic readiness uh strategies. I'm really excited about some of the ideas that they put forward and work that they're building into their school continuous improvement plans. As a result, um also our early learning administrators, John Double and Heather Harm also provided uh feedback as well. District curriculum advisory committee also has uh input into uh the the plan and we do have three very committed community members. So I like to thank Casey Walters, Vern Terrace, and Bill Barber. Um the three of them regularly attend, regularly provide feedback. Um, and I just I really
058appreciate their input. And then of course our school board members, Neil, Kim, and Gary as well. So, I won't point out again, but I do thank you for taking time uh to meet with me after the committee. Um, I I really do appreciate your input. Um, a lot of this work we really thought about um two really key pieces of alignment is getting everything aligned with high reliability schools work and the first three levels that our school our school district has been working on. But then also those core values that Dr. Hyle highlighted uh this evening already. Um what you see here again is draft phase. These will be updated to the most recent ones that Dr. Hy shared with you this evening. Um those few little key pieces in red that he shared tonight,
059those were based on uh feedback that he's received um getting back out into our staff community. So those will be updated to what you already previously reviewed in the superintendent report. What we did this year with our comprehensive achievement and civic readiness report is really looked at aligning any of the identified strategies to one of these six core values. Um really working on tying everything together and having alignment. Tonight I'll cover each of the goals and then um before moving on to a new goal I'll ask for feedback. Um and again this is draft phase so any feedback that you give here um we can uh add that in as well. The first goal is all children are ready for school. We were looking at the number of kindergarten students and how they performed on
060the fall benchmark assessment. The fall goal was 54% and our students came in at 47% on the early reading assessment. A question came to me on Friday afternoon. This data is reflective of all kindergarten students. The question was posed, do we want to look at this data in terms of preschool students that attended Albertly Area Schools programs rather than all preschool students. And the reason that question was raised is that idea of um that is a population of students where we could have some control over versus all kindergarten students um where we only have the control over the ones that would potentially uh attend an Albertly area schools program. thoughts on that? When we're looking at that e- reading assessment, should we disagregate the data to look at just students that attend Albertly area schools?
061>> It would make sense to see the breakdown. I think it's hard to have a goal on students who you haven't interacted with before. I think when we've broken it down before, we didn't make that necessarily public. Um, so we would talk to Head Start and and say, "Here's a percentage of where kindergarteners are coming in." We did the same with up with the services here. I don't know um because if you are at a head start, people may not know that. But I mean it is the highest need of students and so to publicly just put other areas who aren't part of the district out there publicly I don't know that that helps. I think for us internally you know which agencies to work with give them data. >> I agree with that Mary
062Joe. I wouldn't want to publicly say this site was this percent this site was this percent this site was this percent. Um, I think the question was more for the goal. Do we focus the goal on Elbertly Area Schools programs um for just the goal but not break it down by sites uh in terms of that? >> Okay. And I shall say no. Okay. >> Because whether you come from Head Start, UP, wherever you're coming from, >> kindergarten, that's you are now an Albertly student. You're starting now. We need to see you grow. Okay. All right. And I'm totally fine with that. It was just a question brought forward. Okay. In looking at the next page, implementation strategies identified. Many of these were strategies that were identified previously in the teaching category. Um, we have
063previously had opportunities for early learning and kindergarten teachers to observe each other's classrooms. It hasn't been as common practice in recent years. Uh, so we're looking at uh revitalizing that opportunity for early learning teachers and kindergarten teachers to observe. We would look to use the uh instructional rounds framework with our instructional coaches uh if we uh partnered uh together to do some classroom observations. Um in innovation, we are going to be working with community education to partner with the district literacy lead um to offer some literacy learning opportunities for caregivers. Uh you've heard me mention that. That'll again it will be in the newest community education uh handbook coming up. Um in empowerment uh we've added uh offer professional development partnership opportunities to area community providers of prek children. Um Mary Joe mentioned that in
064work in connecting with other community providers and uh again revitalizing a community partnership with them um meeting more regularly. This did come up uh in conversation too with uh with uh director Nelson and uh kind of remembering how some of those partnerships used to exist in your experience with the um children's center as well. So looking at revitalizing those. Those were three uh to highlight there. Any other feedback on all children ready for school hearing? None. The next goal is all children ready for school. Again, this one um we we decided to write two goals last year as the district curriculum advisory committee um both on children being ready for school, but then also looking at increasing the number of students that are attending preschool and that does not need to be an Albertly area
065school's preschool program. We look at any preschool program. Um so our progress towards the goal um our target was 83% of students coming into kindergarten having attended and we hit 89%. So not only did we meet that goal but we exceeded it. Um the 11% just indicates that uh the family either reported that they did not attend a preschool program or they left that section blank. Uh so the committee looked at writing a stretch goal this time and a target of 93% uh for for this coming cake year. Um a strategy to highlight is again some of these were uh previous strategies that probably just needed some revitalization. We really discussed visiting culturally specific gatherings to share prek and other information. Um we'd previously visited the Karen churches in the community. Um so getting out
066and visiting our Kurin church again. Um we were able to find some information on Spanish uh services within our community. And then uh uh director double was aware of other events that we could tap into as well to really expand that culturally specific outreach for our families. Um but we really wanted to be able to continue all the previously identified strategies as we're seeing an impact for this goal. Questions on this one? >> Can I go back to the other one for a second? I I was just thinking of a couple things for strategies. >> Yeah, I love it. >> I know when we did the phonics training um the intensive training with RGR, we invited all the preschool teachers, no matter if they were part of the overly schools, >> we invited the children's
067center, UP, St. Theos, everybody, everyone >> knowing that they're all our kids and eventually >> they feed us. Yep. So um that might >> future if there's appropriate trainings >> I think it's worth it's a great strategy to make sure we're including community partners. >> Yep. And then the other thing is the Freeborn County Daycare Association um monthly they meet it's part of their CEUs are required and so one of the times we would work with the county and whoever the daycare there board members there worked with them and then we invite a kindergarten teacher um and we go and we talk about here's kindergarten expectations and I think was beneficial for us for them just to start form that partnership as Well, >> so sorry I didn't think about that when you were talking.
068>> No, those are great. Thank you, Mary Joe, for adding them. Okay. All racial achievement gaps uh between all racial and economic achievement gaps between students are closed. Um looking at the data on the bottom, the first chart, this this is data that has been shared with you previously um in other uh state of the district and state of the school reports. This is breaking it down for you districtwide by uh racial and economic. Um, when you look at our goal versus our actual, um, we we decreased in Hispanic, Latino, decreased the gap, decreased the gap in Asian, decreased the gap in two or more races, decreased the gap in free and reduced, um, but we did not decrease the gap by the goal of 3%. in math um in reading decrease the gap in
069American Indian and two or more races. Um we did decrease the gap in two or more races by the goal of 3%. Um but we did not in American Indian. this uh in Neil's board report he shared um we had a comprehensive discussion about MCAs and it was really um probably one of the most indepth um and fruitful conversations I feel that we've had at the district curriculum advisory committee um and we really talked about that the MCA is one measure one time per here and uh Neil said it it didn't really yield any decisions but I feel like it did because what we discussed is rather than using MCA as our measure let's look at our benchmark assessments which we do measure three times a year. So if we do the benchmark assessment in
070the fall, we now meet as school leadership teams, district level leadership team, school level leadership team to do some database decision making around the data that we collected and then we benchmark again in the winter and repeat that process and then again in the spring to repeat that process. So based on the feedback from that committee um this is the new data around uh fast assessments. The other great part about a fast assessment versus the MCAs. MCAs if you look back here math is third through 8th grade and 11th grade. Reading 3rd through 8th grade and 10th grade. FAST we have data for everyone. K12. So, this also allows us a more comprehensive look um at our student population. So, what's here is the fall data for e-reading and e math. That's your K1 students.
071And then A reading and A math is our second through 12th grade students. um racial and economic achievement gaps, you're not required to report on special education and English learners. However, we did include that data um because we really discussed again at principal uh leadership the data retreat um around targeted inter interventions for for learner groups. strategies for this goal to highlight. So this goal again is changing ditching the MCA switching to fast assessments. Uh the goal being to um decrease the gap. highlighted um on the bottom of the teaching area is academic interventions implemented at all levels and implementation of culturally responsive methodologies. This is a nice tie-in to HRS uh work with the teachers uh the TD&E task force last year identified three HRS elements that were specific to culturally responsive methodologies. um
072providing opportunities for students to uh talk about themselves, motivating and inspiring students, understanding students backgrounds and interests, and demonstrating value and respect for reluctant learners. Those are the four elements within the HRS instructional framework that are specifically tied to culturally responsive methodologies. Um, we're also looking at expanding the co-taught level three courses for our ELE learners at the secondary level. And, uh, EL teachers are continuing to co-e in core classes to meet the needs of multilingual learners where available. continuing with those ongoing data review cycles to target student needs. Uh continuing to leverage our success coaches to learn about the cultures of our student populations is an important part of um reducing that racial gap as well. And then uh looking to revitalize homework and study clubs at the secondary level. Any additions, recommendations for
073racial and economic achievement gaps. Is anyone opposed to moving to fast data versus MCAs? No. Okay. No, I didn't think so. I just wanted to confirm officially confirm all students being ready for career and college. Uh this goal is really uh high school driven and the goal for this past year was to go from 34% to 40%. Last year uh they were at 34% and decreased to 21%. Um again another very fruitful conver um conversation with the uh secondary team. Uh a lot of uh work around data mining and doing some database decision- making with our acts. Um principal Gaston is doing a nice job unpacking this with his staff a little bit deeper. So in looking at the new goal, their goal is just to get back to where we were. Uh so getting
074back to that 34% uh is the goal that they set for this coming year. You also see that reflected in their uh school continuous improvement plan and uh the goals that principal Gaston shared in his um state of the schools report. some great conversation around strategies in the top box. Um, three new strategies to highlight. Uh, we really talked about ensuring students have the ability to um, effective note-taking skills. Uh, that they are working on grade level reading and writing and access to writing standards. We looked at the eighth grade literacy intervention classes with a goal of expanding that through 9th through 12th grade as we're able and then the focused efforts to increase reading and writing in all core classes. We really really discussed a major literacy focus. We know literacy impacts all content
075areas and so it was really important to highlight uh those in our strategies. Uh in innovation uh one of the board members shared about the CEO course um so the plans to launch the CEO course in the fall of 2026 that continues to be work that we're doing here for career and college ready. Um, in grit, they added setting goals and timelines to develop time management skills. That'll likely be built into our flex advisory time. Uh, that's also where they are reviewing um credits and grades and and individual learning plans as well. And then in systems continuing to offer the preacct. Um but uh a slight revision to that one rather than just offering the preac. Um principal Gaston um discussed combining with it an effort to align in-class assessments to ACT style question stems.
076So again that idea of helping students prepare to be career and college ready. And sometimes that's just having the skills necessary um to take to take that assessment as well. Questions on the ACT goal or additions you'd like to see. Okay. All students graduating from high school. Uh again, we've already shared this with you at the state of the schools. So, the four-year graduation rate to go from 75.6% to 80%. Um we did see uh a decrease in all students increase in our Asian population. So, uh that is um nice to see that increase in graduation, but then a decrease in Hispanic and white again. When you look at the goal at the bottom, the overall four-year graduation rate will increase from 74.2 to 78. The discussion around how the goal was determined. Again at
077the principal leadership team, we looked at all the data above and really looked at getting back to the all students status where it was the um 78.1% in 2022. Um felt like the most achievable goal. Um, we talked through do we get back to the 80% but also recognize that that was in 2020 coming out of COVID and our graduation rates looked a little bit different in 2020. Uh, so the team uh set the 78%. strategies to highlight for the four-year goal. Um, in teaching, the bottom two on teaching again is the reading intervention program for eighth graders, really focusing on those foundational literacy skills. And uh, eighth grade teams are also developing gradewide initiatives to focus on basic academic skills. Uh so that's that's a new uh strategy that the high school is working
078on in innovation uh continuing to work through those individual learning plans for those students in the academy pathways. And then we discussed in grit that idea of teaching resilience. Uh focusing on resilience just as um along within their flex classes monitoring the grades and and credit attainment. Flex was there previously, but the focus was on um grades, credit attainment, um skills. So just building in a few more uh pieces regarding resiliency in readiness. Uh two new ones to highlight is uh if you remember back to Dave's report last month uh that's the integration of graduation progress benchmarks and academic support into the extracurricular activities um and having those uh uh requirements for academic achievement as well and then the development of detailed graduation plans for our newly enrolled multilingual students. Um, our success coaches are
079doing a really nice job each time a new family is enrolled uh to really sit down and work through a detailed graduation plan. Um, and then the secondary is also on the last bullet under systems. They're also working on developing a student mentor program to connect upper classmen with any struggling eighth and ninth graders. Um, again, finding them a person or a mentor that can help them navigate their high school journey. So, working through a mentorship program. Questions on the four-year goal, additions that you'd like to see? Okay. All right. Seven-year goal was an addition last year. uh our seven-year goal, we saw again our Asian population stands out uh as an area where we have been able to decrease the gap. The new goal um for at the bottom of the page for seven-year
080so the the original goal was 87 to 90% um did not meet that goal. We came in at 81%. The goal again is to get back to the 81% for our 7-year rate. So, returning to that 2324 status. The ALC um gave feedback on uh the strategies for this goal as well. In innovation, that is a new strategy. um start looking at researching a hybrid model as a pos possible future school model for some ALC students. Um so interested in in digging into that a little bit more questions or additions on seven-year goal. Okay, lifelong learners. This was a new goal in um comprehensive achievement in civic readiness or I should say a new um focus area from the state. So last year we didn't have an official goal. Um we just had a blanket
081statement that was to develop social and emotional competencies by equipping students with emotional resilience, social skills, and the ability to collaborate effectively. The data that we were looking at this past year was the My Sabers assessment that our second through 8th graders take. Um, and the feedback in our principal leadership data retreat was that for the purposes of Caker, this is really overwhelming and we felt like we needed to pull it back into a focus. we would still do this deep dive of social skills, emotional skills and and academic skills at the site level in their data mining but not at the caker level for the purpose of the report. So what we looked at doing instead was using the composite, still breaking it down by each of the categories that are highlighted in Caker.
082Um but but doing it by the composite score rather than the three individual breakdowns. Um when we look at the individual breakdowns in in our social data, uh five out of the eight subgroups had an increase in skills. Emotional, five out of the eight subgroups had an increase in skills, but in academic, two out of the eight had an increase in skills. So really honing in on those academic skills will be an important task in our um in our school level work. Many of the strategies that you see listed on this page are new strategies um because we looked at this at a at a deeper level um than we had the previous year. Um so all all but one of the strategies in teaching are new strategies. Um looking at proficiency skills that require
083critical thinking that directly ties to that academic strand. Um collaborative learning to strengthen communication that ties to the social and the academic strand. Focusing on students doing the cognitive lift. um that's very student centered um instructional design. We hear the language cognitive lift frequently in our literacy program both RGR our phonics program and in uh wit and wisdom. Um and then authentic opportunities for that academic skill building and and utilizing our flex courses for that work at the secondary level. um innovation really tapping into uh incorporating different careers, hobbies, activities into the daily instruction. Again, that ties directly to HRS and those elements that I listed out earlier. Um opportunities for students to explore careers. Our counseling department continues to utilize Naviance as well with our students. Um and then we will continue the site
084level the very last bullet under systems we'll continue the site level high reliability schools surveys um for students families and staff that is uh you'll notice on the previous it said survey daily desired experiences annually. This again was a great conversation with the principal leadership team. Um striking off daily desired experience survey annually and staying aligned to our high reliability schools surveys um because that keeps us with the feedback of each of the three uh levels that we're working on with high reliability schools. questions on lifelong learner goal. Good. All right. And then the final part of the Kaker report is that it's partnered with achievement and integration. Um these are the three goals of achievement and integration. Um achievement and integration is packed three years at time. So our last plan was 2023. Our
085current plan is 23 through 26 and we actually just started writing our 2629 plan. Um so uh district curriculum advisory committee should uh be seeing a draft at the December meeting. Um and then that is due in in March. Um, but achievement and integration, we also work with partner districts with uh racially isolated schools or racially identified schools. And so I've started meeting with our partner districts as well around our uh integration strategies that are identified in our plans. So we'll be looking to get that one out next. where we're at currently. Um the first goal is the number of students of color enrolling in CIS or AP courses in 2324. Um I actually revised it on my paper, but it's not revised on yours. That was met. Um so we were at 26% in
0862324 with the goal being 22%. So it was met year one. It was not met not on track year two only 18%. Our goal this year is 22%. So number of students again in CIS or AP courses. Um our second goal is reducing that achievement gap. This goal directly ties to everything um that was previously shared in the Kaker report. Um the overall gap in 24 was 19% 25 is 22%. our goal is 10% or less. So, we are quite a ways off on reducing that um racial and economic achievement gap. And then the final goal was increasing professional development opportunities related to cultural competency. In school year 22 23, we had one event. Our goal was to increase that to six events. um by school year 2526 we actually met that. So in year
087one of our plan we were on track increasing to two. Year two of our plan six events. So we met the goal already in year two and we will meet the goal um in year three as well. Those are already scheduled. Um, if you do not meet your goals on achievement and integration, you're required to put 20% of your ANI revenue towards um, funds towards improvement efforts. Um, we have done that the last the 2023 plan and the 2326 plan. Um, so we'll plan to write for that 20% revenue again. um 20% of the revenue going towards improvement efforts. The bulk of it, I actually went through it with um the team last week and the bulk of it goes to our success coaches as that's where we focus our racial gaps on questions on
088ANI. All right, I will work on the few revisions that um were addressed today. Um specifically all children being ready for school. Thank you again, Mary Joe, for that input. Um and then I will align with uh Dr. Hile's updates in the core values statements as well. All right, this will be submitted I will share it in a board update, but it will be submitted on December 15th or prior to December 15th. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> All right. Moving on to effective and efficient operations. Um presentation of ALHS Letterman sweatshirt. Katie Gords. >> I'm going to apologize for being so informal and casting here. Yes. >> Thanks. >> Yes. >> Uh thank you for having me here. I'm really excited to share this project and show it off a little bit for mostly
089for the reason on why we're doing this. Um, for the last couple years now, I've been debating on what we can do. Letterman jackets have not been seen as often. They've kind of gone to the wayside. I feel I'm just not seeing them as much on the students. And to be honest, kids don't wear coats. Um, so yes, behind the Letterman jacket is the self-accomplishment that you have, the pride of wearing it, and really uh knowing why did I get this letter. And it's the backup between you've achieved academically and you've achieved um in this extracurricular activity and balancing both which is an accomplishment on its own. So my worry behind the jackets being gone was I feel like students don't know that they don't have that feeling of self-accomplishment anymore and the pride of
090wearing that um saying I've done a great job and showing that off because that's been earned. So what we've come up with is a sweatshirt because that's all we're seeing now. Um, in the debate on what to do, there was a lot of discussion as to what what format are we going to use, how many options, and we came up with this hoodie design because of its a little bit of closeness to the jacket. Um, and we limited the options of customization to keep the product a little more uniformed. Um, we have an exclusive design on there and it came up with a new logo so that um it it still follows suit with our um Albertly area schools logo but has that exclusivity for these um honors in academics and activities and arts. Um,
091we went with a local printer with Travco. Um, we wanted to keep it in inhouse, you know, as as local as we could with that. Um, the we also a priority that we wanted to have was to keep it easy and affordable for families. So you can still definitely buy, you know, encouraged to get a letterman jacket if that's what you would like and that's what you want to wear and you will have that option. We also wanted to have this for all of the customizations you can have on your initial order. The total would be $76.50. And we thought that's to get a letterman jacket, it's going to be over 200. And so we thought for to include a lot more families, this would be a good choice. Um, there's also options lower than
092that down to $59 if you didn't want to include all of the customizations with those that you have. Um, we've got the logo on the front here that I think stands out really nicely with tying in the red, blue, and the gold. Um, we've got the you can choose to put your name down the side of the sleeve. On the other sleeve, we'll have the grad year as well as the option you can add if you've been a captain of a sport. Then there's a C that comes comes on there as well. For the back of the sweatshirt, here is where you're having your sport options. And then below that is where the chevrons go. So they're stackable so that each year that you've earned this, we bring it back and you add on another
093one. Um to make it easy for the families, the process to put on additional chevrons is that each at the end of each season, we have an open window and you bring your sweatshirt back. We mark on there on the order form what you need to add on. the orders are picked up and dropped back off to the high school. So, it's easy for the student. You have don't have to make that extra trip somewhere around town to drop it off to. Um the cost to add these chevrons on um is not on the sheet, but it's approximately5 to$10. So, doable to continue on throughout the years that you're going to add on. Um we've got it in the two color options forum. We've got sizing uh these samples down in the office for them
094to try on. Um really our goal with this was to bring back the pride for the students. Um my you know hopes and dreams would be we'd have a hundred orders right away. Um, realistically with this being new for the students, I think that um I was hoping for 10 orders. Right now we're at two. This window is going to close the end of um this week. Hopefully we can. We're wanting to send these in to Travis the printer uh Monday and Tuesday so that these can be back prior to Christmas break um to winter break and so that it might be a good holiday gift for students. But um yeah, I'm excited. I hope that as students see others wearing it that they'll also see that accomplishment on there and um want that for
095themselves. Uh what any questions on that? >> Where would robotics fit in? I mean they're competing at up to an international level. Is that >> agreed? They are. Um, and so on the back of the form, we have a blank space. Um, it's hard to fit all of them on there because in addition to robotics, there's um, our speech team, um, you know, youth and government, there's so many, which is why I've I've pulled Holly in too. She's in our athletics department. There's there's many more activities that I'm not as familiar with that are eligible to letter. So, um, we have, you know, a predominant amount up on top, but we left a space below that we can add those achievements in as well. >> This is all screen print then, Katie. >> Correct. >>
096It's not a bird. Okay. >> Mhm. If they become a captain in a sport after they print this, can they get a C after or is it just the chevrons? You can add on after every season. So um yeah as they you know are on the varsity team perhaps first year second year be they become that captain they can definitely add on that se at any point. Um we have made this public with an email out to parents and students. Um we have contacted with the tribune. My next step is to put this on Facebook on social media. But um I am looking for more suggestions on how I can make this more successful with the students if you have any. >> Do you have any idea what uh the costs were before for the
097chevrons and anything going forward? I mean, if they, you know, got another letter, let's say, um, not just chevron, but added the patch when they become a senior or that we just got on the academics. Do you have any idea what those costs were? >> I we did check with him and um, he didn't give us a set amount yet for this with this initial startup, but he did agree with the price that it would be less than $10 >> to add on. a suggestion maybe if you talk to him or maybe um work with them a little bit just like you have on the uh option up here for the 76 well for actually pack one and pack two have unlimited initial patches and chevrons maybe if he could cap a price each year
098at $12 if I mean because again I think a lot of it comes to the setup once they have it set up I don't know how much it cost to really screen print on >> just to keep it affordable able, you know, if it's $8 a piece and I'm in four sports and then I get another academic letter now I'm get another $30 $40 pretty soon we'll have $200 into a sweatshirt type of thing. So maybe as you negotiate maybe you know get something on that order too because again I think the setup is the big >> cost for those guys. >> Yeah. One, an idea might be to um involve one of your clubs or organizations like student council or something like that and they could promote it for you with you cuz they're
099they're peers and they might have, you know, have a couple of or whoever has ordered, >> you know, then they can for future orders, they could be your your pilot or whatever. Yeah. >> Did you uh include booster clubs in your >> Sure. Yeah, I'm thinking that the spooy clubs of various sports would probably some of them would be interested and have the wherewithal to pay for the whole thing. >> Yeah, >> I think it's a great idea. >> Thank you. >> Yeah, >> thank you. I hope it takes off and gives them that pride back. >> Thank you for having me. Okay. Uh, we have a second reading. Ashley. Right. Good evening, Chair Clatt, school board members, Dr. Hy. Um, so tonight we bring forward policy 712 for a second reading. Uh, this was
100reviewed at our September policy committee meeting. Um, brought forward at the October meeting. Between then and now, there have been some MSBA recommended revisions. Uh, so we did bring forward this. We had a a regularly scheduled policy committee meeting tonight. Um, and we did review this as a committee. And so, not only do we have the MSBA recommended revisions, um, but we also did make a, uh, revision under three um, A3. that video will not be used in bathrooms or locker rooms, although these areas will be monitored by individuals of the same sex as the occupants of the bathrooms or locker rooms. Um, so that would be an item that we as a committee brought forward tonight. So, we would like to bring this forward for a final reading in December and we'll look for
101more discussion at that time. Thank you. Okay. Um 10.3 is a we'll be heading into close session persuant to Minnesota statute section 13D.0 03 labor negotiations. I need a uh motion to go into close session. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor signify by saying I. >> I oppose the same sign. Close session. Uh just a quick announcement too that Monday, December 1st will be our next truth and taxation meeting. It'll be 6:00 p.m.