001welcome everyone to tonight's meeting and uh just as a reminder uh I've had it asked me a couple times make sure we speak into our speakers because some of us get like this sometimes or don't turn them on so watch your mics if you can um okay I don't believe we had anyone for the open Forum uh celebrating District successes um we've got it looks like Sarah Sarah who is who is yes come on up yes oh yeah Christy I didn't see you there chrisy it's your she exemplifies calm patience in the classroom creating a nurturing environment where students feel safe and valued her unwavering support for each child is evident as she goes above and beyond to ensure that every student reaches their potential Sarah implements Innovative methods to make learning enjoyable and engaging
002igniting A Love For Education and her students additionally she is a fantastic teammate and collaborator always willing to share ideas and support her colleagues Sarah's dedication and creativity truly make her an invaluable asset to our school thank you [Applause] okay uh before we approve tonight's agenda we just got one small addition under a 6.95 we need to add the French Club also so 6.95 will add French Club and with that addition I will look for approval of tonight's agenda so we got a motions made by Mary Joe is there a second a second and a second any discussion seeing none all those in favor signify by saying I I I pose the same sign all right thank you all right and consent items take a look you've had a chance to look at those I'll
003look for the same a motion to approve our consent items second we got a motion to Second any discussion seeing none all those in favor signify by saying I I oppose the same sign all right thank you all right now 7.0 uh we'll start with our reports uh Dave cren isn't here tonight is our interim so let's start with our Schoolboard reports and cim yeah thank you very much uh no meetings but I did have the opportunity to attend the girls hockey final wow they they skate fast holy cow um and I think someone in the crowd said that it's too bad that Dodge County and Albert Lee are in the same section because they both would have a real um would have done really well at state so that was good and it was
004fun to see our our student section and and the crowd and then I had the um Fortune to be the judge adviser for the robotics competition this last Saturday long day I think I lost my voice from that but what a great experience um I think there were 36 teams Junior High and high school and just I I'm starting to learn a little bit about coding and and uh components and and plc's and things like that and what these students know is just amazing and how they carry themselves and and what I had the opportunity to do was um the judges would interview the teams and um then they would um look at their engineering notebooks and then they would put they would do judges award awards for that and I'd help lead that so
005I had to take a test to do that so it's good I passed that test but um just really excited for our our robotics teams um our Junior one of our Junior High teams and I'm not going to remember which one there were four they actually were picked to be in Alliance with a high school team for the finals which is super cool right or the uh quarterfinals and they actually won a trip to state by um after their competition so I think we have three teams from that and I could be wrong but I know we at least have three teams from albertly going to the state tournament and I think that celebration's coming up so really excited to be um doing that and if you can say after eight hours on a Saturday
006being excited about being part of something then it was a good time so thanks for that opportunity just two items I too was involved in a in an organization that earned a trip to the state tournament the wrestlers won at Northfield last Saturday uh and this is the second consecutive year that we've we've done that and I'm I know these these uh boys pretty well and girls and U they're an outstanding group and um I think I don't think I know that the program has done a lot to develop them as individuals not just wrestlers just athletes but as as good people um the other uh the other thing I've been involved in as the Education Foundation of course is my happiness to sign thousands of dollars worth of checks that go to scholarships for
007students Gary also signs those checks um he's the chair I'm the secretary treasurer so that's that's that's always good that's it thank you uh attended lots of sporting events what a great winter season um both Athletics and arts congrats Max on All State um as well uh and Robotics so yeah a lot of stuff going on which is great uh I attended the teacher of the year committee and tomorrow is the teacher of the year te at 3:45 in the Commons the teachers asked that it be moved back to the commons this year come back on site so um it will be again at 3:45 um so come and support our teachers and um msbi msba offered a six- hour session a couple weeks ago on negotiations and and um is very very uh good
008they just went through some of the new changes with the legislature kind of the biggest challenges for budgeting coming up with Paul you know which Paul has mentioned some of those coming up um one of the things I wasn't aware of is that the TR employer share that we pay as a district uh increased 75% and so they said make sure that's in your budget because that that's a significant increase So currently now our TR portion is 9.5% um and just they said it's a reminder which obviously Paul knows Us but make sure the public knows too that when we say we get a 2% increase from the legislature it's not on our entire budget it's just on the 60% or our general fund budget so a lot of good reminders in there um and
009then they said the other challenge that is coming up and they are lobing lobbying to help make some corrections is the ESS the earn and safe time and we heard a lot about that at our msba conference as well um so they just acknowledge some of the concerns they're seeing and hearing from districts and the work to uh try and get those changed and then the last session is that I attended last week and we'll attend tomorrow it's a two-part session is the msba officers legal training um Angie's attending that as well so I'll let her say more on that but um basically the highlights are voting the laws affecting school board members hearings uh data privacy and one that was good for me is degrees of relationship of staff to board members being I
010have a son and daughter-in-law in the district employed and um the last thing they said which was new to me and and probably not to a lot of people but I didn't realize that if we put a teacher on Ula uh all board members need to be here for that vote so if somebody's absent we can't take it and I did not know that so those are my updates good thank you well the two things I had written down Mary Joe just covered so I attended the teacher of the year committee which I had just joined so I'm kind of learning how that works and um Bruce Olson was there so it's fun to see him um we put together letters that were going to the nominees and then we just talked about the teacher
011of the year te which will be tomorrow um I'm glad you said what time it was I was trying to remember what time it was 3:45 so I'll be going to that um and then also I am doing the msba officer training the first session for me was last Thursday and the next one will be this Thursday and um it you know so far it's just been a good refresher for how things should work I haven't learned too much new although the point you mentioned about everyone having to be there for the Ula that I that did stand out too so but that's what I have okay um talk in some some hockey um boy I always I always feel like girls hockey is more of a finesse sport as far as on ice but
012man they can check like a son of a gun I mean uh it was incredible I and on a personal note Power 96 invited me to come up and speak uh and be interviewed and I did it because uh first of all my son-in-law is a sports director but they do this box cast where if you have a smart TV you can watch live sports on the on the TV and so I do a little quality control but I just spoke for myself as a board member but I I did thank the station for covering tiger Sports they do they do a nice job they try to be as present that they as they can and I did express my appreciation for that as well I took in the robotics fundraiser and I was able
013to attend part of the event uh very well run that robotics uh competition was ran like a well round wound watch this did a nice job Albert Lee one of the teams in Albert Lee played my hometown of East Grand Forks and unfortunately East Grand Forks beat them but then lost in the semifinals but our kids perform very well I got a Backtrack on the hockey uh the pep band was playing which I think is nice to get the pep band out there I knew some of the pep band students they're playing 1970s music in pep band I said hey Smoke on the Water 1972 it was awesome uh I've been taken in the legislative updates by msba um a couple other personal notes but connected to the school district our Lions Club uh gave
014$1,000 to the food for backpack program and I ha some food over to Hawthorne about a week or week or so ago and as Neil mentioned I'm chairing for the next two years the Education Foundation you just a couple additions um the only thing that was different in the girls hockey that I didn't see was was different from the USA versus Canada hockey the other night I was actually glad of that you know I I I wasn't quite sure what happened on the Saturday night but I'm sure glad it didn't happen in otana with our gals so they played very well and uh um each time it's it's interesting to see every one of the events uh that we went to to see how much better they are getting by the end of the year
015which is Neil said as a tribute to uh not just becoming better athletes but understanding more what they're doing out there and becoming better people and I think then better teammates and everything else and uh one other thing I had the privilege of calling bingo at Lake View gosh that was an experience I uh know it was a great turnout Casey and um it was fun to see the kids it's it uh back in the the day with my children when they went to Lake you it was fun night and every room had Trinkets and it was kind of nice here that they could just go up to a table and pick out a few things maybe even a little bit bigger but I did miss the Cakewalk because every year we came home with
016a cake and that probably wasn't good for me but I enjoyed it so anyway that's my rep go ahead hello I am Nicole Brooks I work at view as the dean um February is um I love to read month in all the elementary buildings uh they celebrate by having guest readers from the community dress up days um mystery readers um Southwest students even get to partake um some of them went over and read to SI which is a great opportunity for them to step into a leader leadership position at Southwest they just had a snow week um at the high school they're gearing up for Winterfest activities and dress up days um the student council and um National Honor Society led a book drive for Africa they collected over 2,000 books um the alc held
017a very successful family engagement night um where they had food and activities the 18 to 21 transition students hosted a lunch for Brookside staff on February 12th um they served homemade soup desserts and um bread and lastly um the uh ALC staff took um on the academy day went to other alternative schools um and learned from them thank you all right Max will give you a first shot at tonight for the students okay um so one thing that our we did at the high school over this past week was the plant science class which I feel like might be new this year I not for sure but I haven't heard of it before but they are sold carnations to raise money for their class and they sold over a thousand which is really cool that
018that many people got involved in that and it was a really good way to like have fun with Valentine's um this past weekend as some of you may have seen I participated in the mmaa All State Ensemble um as well as Ruby mikin in we're both seniors um from the high school and that was U an amazing experience it was super cool and I also had the um honor to participate in the Minnesota future music educators um thing at the conference so I got to learn about what it's like to be music educator because that's hopefully what I want to be in the future um so I got to attend a lot of sessions on that and it was really interesting to hear about the teaching perspective of it um we also had a ninth
019grade student um Greta H Huston participate in the middle level All State Orchestra so that's another student who hopefully will be in the full level All State Orchestra when she's old enough because that's a great thing that she's already participating in that um we also had our first student cabinet with superintendent Ken um this past week on the 12th I believe and that was really good to hear about what his role will be as we transition between superintendent um just a few upcoming things at the high school we have the wal inspiration ceremony on March 7th which that's always that's always a good thing um to honor those inspirational people in our community and before the next board meeting the choir will be taking our Nashville trip this year which I'm excited to be going
020on so hopefully I can see a lot of cool things there because I've never been before gly all right so Winterfest is happening this week today was supposed to be twin day and I'm kind of sad that we didn't get to see that that would have been really fun um we did do books for Africa NHS did um that was a really great experience to be a part of I really enjoyed it that is our service project for the year um and then on March 5th NHS will have its next blood drive so that is very exciting we had a really great turnout last time um around Christmas and then for my last thing it's for alasa our one of our writers KB won the best of snow award for her feature on Haley dumming
021which is really exciting um we're really working on building up our um Publications department and I feel like that's just a really great um Benchmark for like where we're going and what we're going to do in the future thank you okay uh moving on then nothing under safe and healthy schools so under curriculum and instruction we've got 9.1 some high reliability School presentation uh Kim Larson Tyler Johnson Shan Gaston Chris debble come on out everyone Sean Sean go ahead I've been volen told to go first here so all right well thank you for uh having us uh talk to you guys about our HRS Summit experience uh and so Darcy are you the next person when I ready to move on or oh right in front of me I know that's what you guys get
022for sending me up first thank you uh before we begin I just want to uh again once again thank the board uh for allowing us the opportunity to go to the summit it's a great experience this is my first time going to this uh and so I was able to learn quite a bit and like I uh was telling um people that I've already spoke to I just things became a lot clearer in my mind as far as next steps uh at Southwest Middle School as well uh so why High reliability schools or what exactly is that so this is all revolves around Bob Marzano he's a educational Guru uh has spent many many many many years um doing the research so that way people um like myself and the other principles and Educators uh
023can just use that research uh to uh benefit ourselves and our community as well and so um where this all came from is that uh Bob looked at what are called high reliability organ gations uh and these are organizations that perform safely and effectively under high-risk uh environments so things like the FAA uh our Navy uh aircraft carriers um things like that as well uh and he applied that to a school concept and so what uh hos High reliability organizations or HRS High reliability schools all have in common our systems uh to consistently achieve their goals uh culture so again making sure that the mindset is not keeping the old way but what is the best way moving forward uh planning and training so with that um I just want to say thank you again
024to the board for uh the academy days that we have built into the schedule this year and for next year because the time that our teachers have to plan uh is very valuable in that eight hours of what I like to call uninterrupted time uh is very nice for them to get a lot of that work done as well all right so uh essentially what HRS is or high reliability schools is uh there's five different levels and you always start at level one uh and in order to move up to a level you have to show that your school is maintaining the previous level then as well and so as a district uh two years ago three years ago no actually four years ago uh we all were HRS level one certified and I'll I'll
025kind of briefly touch on that here in a moment uh and then most of the schools right now are working on level two I say most because uh high school was just recently level two certified uh before winter break and so what you're going to see here is that what Marano's team has found is that to have a high reliability school there are things called leading indicators these are important conditions that are known to be associated with Improvement so again research proven things that again if schools are doing these um they are going to have results then as well at each level as you're going up and so there's a total of 25 across the five levels uh and then what makes it unique is that each school then provides what are called leing indicators
026and what legging indicators are basically the pieces of evidence that that particular School uses to show that they are reaching that leading indicator so if we take a look at HRS level one there are eight leading indicators so whether you're at Southwest Middle School or Staples mle or wherever whatever School District you are at if you are in the HRS process you have these same eight leading indicators uh and again I'll just show you a snippet of what we use at South West uh since we are through going through the level two certification we have to show that we are still maintaining level one status and so this is a slide that shows that the 1.2 leading indicator students parent par and the community perceive the school environment as safe and orderly uh and so
027each one of those links has a separate page or document that you can go to that shows for example the floor plan of the school Duty coverage so forth and so on over to the bottom right there there's quick data so these are surveys that we give to our students and parents each year throughout the year um that asks hey how are we doing in this leading indicator as well uh and so there's all sorts of information from that as long as well of the uh lagging indicators that we do at our schools so each school does this um it might just be put together a little bit differently but the idea of legging indicators and leading indicators is the same uh and again here's just another example uh this is 1.7 leading indicator uh
028the success of the whole school as well as individuals within the school is appropriately acknowledged so here are some things that we do at Southwest you can see there's an areas for improvement and so our BLT our building leadership team goes through this each year to make sure that things are updated that we're still doing this uh and that's a big thing that we learned at the summit as well is that our HRS is a measurement system and so you want to keep things that are working and then also if you're doing things that maybe do not have the um intended effects that it is having then you get rid of it uh again being highly reliability or high reliability so then for level two again um any school that's going through this process these
029are the six leading indicators that you need to show that you are doing in order to be certified at level two um one of the things that our district has done a really good job at and worked really hard at is our instructional model and so we uh essentially have borrowed sto this from Marzano with their permission of course uh and so what these are essentially 43 elements again again research proven strategies that teachers can do in their classroom um that have been proven to be effective now in any given lesson you're not going to see all 43 elements going on at once um however it is there so that way teachers can be more intention intentional about uh the strategies that they are doing uh this is our interactive one that we use at
030Southwest and so again each one of these elements you'd be able to click on and unfortunately we won't be able to do it in the U presentation here um but if we were to click on uh Element 22 organizing students to interact uh it's going to bring you U the staff to a page where it has information on exactly oh look at that so it brings us uh to this page and for each element it gives uh the student engagement survey so that is the uh purple document that you see under files uh and then there are What's called the compendium basically uh what each one of those elements actually is and then if you click on the library Darcy so underneath the folder sorry there you go and this is definitely a work in
031progress but this is the uh work that our team has been doing uh is essentially there's articles so when we find um articles online we can put them into uh each folder there is also pictures artifacts so again if you click on that first one uh this is just a quick picture of uh two students working um together on a science lab uh information from uh what we call the nasset or um new Art and Science of teaching book that really dives into each of these elements as well uh and then it just gives you a brief example and then one more in the library there Darcy the videos so here's where it's a work in progress as well um but we try to when I say we our instructional coach Wendy Greenfield and myself
032um we'll try to record videos of uh things going on in the classroom to then later use in our library um this is very effective in the fact that especially for our new teachers um we can refer back to this library and say hey why don't you go look at the video or videos of Element 22 to see some ways that our staff have done for organizing students to interact uh and so it's a very helpful tool in that sense uh and again the big part of level two uh is having highly effective teachers in the classroom as well so you can go back to the original presentation now Darcy so for the last fiveish years um all the schools in the district have been working really hard at level two as well uh and
033so the gap between level one and level two um there usually is a little bit more time just because it does take a little bit more time of getting these things in place um but as you will see when moving from level two to level three which level three is having a guaranteed and viable curriculum uh there's not as much time because level two and level three kind of go hand inand with one another as well so uh each one of us have kind of a slide here just on our takeaways from the summit uh one thing that really stood out to me is uh this Rick Wormley video and uh Rick Wormley again is an education Guru um really made his way in the middle level so I believe he was a middle school
034English teacher um but he was recognized as national school teacher of the year in the mid 90s um but Darcy we have a moment if you could just play this it's just a quick minute video here as people are coming to know I'm band of them this automatic you learn the same Pace as everyone else that's the factory model of schooling that we realize doesn't work in fact to really explore differentiated struction it's almost countercultural it's almost subversive because schools weren't meant to meet the needs of kids who don't get it first or right away the the whole system kind of conspires against that so we're gonna have to do things a little differently from time to time because people learn a different ways and in different uh timelines that's fine we can do that
035but one of the things that's operating kind of against teachers is this idea that we have to get through the curriculum by the end of the year well it turns out if you do the math kindergarten through 12th grade it takes to about grade 22 to really teach everything and do justice to all of it we tend to stop at schools most schools at grade 12 we're 10 years shy so a lot of teachers go through their year like this here's a bunch of stuff take a test here's a bunch of stuff take a test you didn't get it when I taught it well that just stinks for you join us when you can and we keep moving through the year this is no way to teach humans but it is something we have as
036a system and until somebody brighter than us comes up with a better idea we're going to have to do some things to mitigate those negative as all right and again uh so the the idea there is um when you're looking at state standards for any grade or subject uh they tend to be very heavy and again not to say that not any standard is not important um but just to be able to get through each standard um from every grade level to the next to the next and to have students proficient at that um as you can see uh would take uh quite some time now one thing that we're starting to notice is that when new standards are coming out uh they're not as heavy in the number of them and so uh I
037was a science teacher before um getting into the admin world and so uh uh I remember uh when we were going through standards U you know you had roughly 40 to 50 standards um that you are required to get and if you think about all right well we have let's just say 170 student contact days uh and then you really start breaking that down well that just means that you really have three days in barring any like beginning of the year end of the year homecoming any kind of festivities if you just have 170 school days um really you only have three to four days to get through each standard so it becomes very difficult and so uh the big things that uh I took away from the summit are some of the work that
038we've already been doing but again just kind of going with the next steps and so some of the work that we are already doing are what we call Priority standards or what Marzano calls critical Concepts and so you go through your state standards and figure out which ones 10 to 15 are the most priority for students to know now and as they move on to next grades as well uh and that gives teachers then more time and students more time to um learn those critical priority standards then as well once those priority standards are established uh teachers create what are called proficiency scales so you can think of this as the um how will you know if students get it and there goes from a one to a four scale with those proficiency scales uh
039and then once proficiency scales are established uh those teachers then create assessments to check to see um where students are at with those priority standards uh and then working on what we call Curriculum maps so you can think of this as a one-page document if you want to say hey what's going on in seventh grade ELA we would hand you uh a curriculum map and you can see the priority standards that seventh grade English students have and then on the back side is basically a quick year-long here's what they do weeks one through two prior to standard two is addressed during weeks 3 through six so forth and so on so basically just like a one-page document where you can kind of see what's going on uh and then from there teachers then are doing
040what are called instructional cycle or unit planning uh and then their CT work as well uh and one of the the biggest things and my colleagues will kind of touch on this as well uh is really meeting the needs of each individual student um once you get to level three status uh as uh Chris will talk about uh that level four and five can be a pretty big jump for school districts in fact Marzano's team has made that very clear that if your District decides that you stop at level three that is perfectly okay as well um but after level three you are really meeting the needs of each individual students versus the averages of students then as well uh and so again that uh that was just kind of my takeaway from our HRS
041Summit when we were in San San Antonio at the end of January any questions for me right now so then Tyler each you'll just cover your own kind of takeaways in a different part of it okay yes y each one of us we'll just have one slide here to kind of go over anything for Tyler specific what does the certification process look like do someone come in from the outside and yeah so uh preco uh there was somebody that was coming in I I was not a part of the level one certification I was a dean at the high school at that time um but there was was a a representative from um Marzano that would come in um and ask questions and go through that process um now it's done through what's called a
042Moodle so an online platform um where you upload uh you know pieces of evidence videos as well from myself and our staff students um showing you know that you are in fact doing the work of in our case level two um HRS was level one very specific to each building it seems like maybe it builds on each building becomes more specific as you go through each different level is that true or is so it it's kind of uh each school is unique uh and so that was another kind of cool takeaway from the summit as well is that um there were some schools in fact we had a round table with Bob Marzano uh discussion with probably 20 other people in the in the room um but there was a middle school principal in Michigan
043um who was there and he and his school um were five in the HRS um but no other school in the district was HRS uh and so that was pretty unique uh and so um I'm sorry what was your original question there Dave did did the district kind of start out on base for all buildings and then you built yeah and so no they each school still has those nine leading indicators it's those lagging indicators of what does your school do to um reach those leading indicators so each school has their own unique sometimes same legging indicators but sometimes different legging indicators that show that you are in fact um achieving those leading indicators Tyler do they give you excuse me do they give you not on it was you that's okay um okay now
044I forgot my question oh no so is there like do they share with you like kind of The Sweet Spot of from going from 1 to two or two to three like how many years or how much time that takes or is it really just unique to the to each school it is unique to each school and I know that's kind of a blanket statement but there were some schools that um because they do a recogn recognition ceremony as well and so our high school U colleagues were recognized during this time as well uh but there were some schools um that did level one two 3 four all in one year there were some schools districts that you know hit multiple levels in one year um so it is possible uh the the minimum is
0455 years after five years then you have to go back to that previous level to show that hey all right you are still doing this okay you can still work then on level two so I guess the minimum is five years um but is however long it takes the school to reach that level really all right thank you guys Kim Tyler did such a great job it was so fabulous to be at San Antonio um learning more about HRS and to be able to acknowledge the great work that the high school has done that was fun to see them get recognized um up there as well going across the stage and it was awesome at Round Table with Barb Marzano um Chris dble even said okay what could I've have done different what could we
046have done better what could we have done to improve and he said nope you did everything terrific so that was great and that was great feedback so kudos to the high school that was wonderful so if you want to go to the next slide please Darcy so I just want to say good evening everybody um I'm not GNA demand of them not I okay thank you so um thank you again for the opportunity to speak with you tonight about our essential topic that directly impacts Student Success and how we approach Teaching Standards at our school as we know the sheer number of standards that we expect um to be taught is over overwhelming research has shown that if you were to teach each standard like Tyler talked about it would take 22 years for students
047to master them all so we don't have that kind of time in our space and thanks to our wonderful takeaways from HRS we talked about bundling standards um it's not just a a strategy but it's definitely a necessity by bundling standards we integrate Concepts across subjects and grade levels allowing students to make deeper Connections in their learning so instead of teaching in isolated silos we create a meaningful cohesive learning experience that reinforce key skills and knowledge this is critical to ensuring that our students are prepared for future academic success problem solving and rur World application so the second big takeaway for me was the mtss um and HRS and how they align together um so our District's commitment to multi-tiered systems of support and high reliability reliability schools is at the heart of this work
048a strong foundation in tier one instruction ction is our key goal as for 80% of our students to Succeed In The Core Curriculum without any additional interventions so to achieve this we have to sure that we have that strong tier one instruction it's rigorous yet accessible it's differentiated to meet the needs of all of our Learners and it's grounded in high quality research-based instructional practices so bundling the standards definitely supports this Mission by streamlining instruction reducing redundancy and ensuring that time is spent on depth not just coverage um the third big takeaway for me was the vertical alignment so the key to Student Success equally important is the vertical alignment ensuring that instruction builds logically from one grade to the next when teachers collaborate across grade grade levels they can identify gaps and redundancies in
049student learning they can ensure a seamless transition from one grade level to the other and they can help students retain and apply what they have learned when standards are vertically aligned and bundled effectively students develop a clear deeper understanding of content rather than memorizing disconnected facts this supports critical thinking and long-term knowledge retention so at the heart of all of our efforts in our schools is we want our students to be engaged confident Learners who seek connections between subjects and understand how their education builds over time by focusing on bundled standards tier one instruction and vertical alignment we set them up for Success not just in school but in life so I appreciate your time I appreciate your support as we continue to focus on highquality efficient impactful instruction for every student in our district
050thank you any specific questions for Kim thank you thank you Kim Chris good evening um this was my third Summit I did the first one in Denver with Mary Joe actually where we actually booked Phil Warick for the first time I'm Phil war is the air parent to the Marzano Empire a phenomenal speaker we had him a couple years three years ago I think to kick off our level two uh certifications an amazing speaker and a brilliant uh person able to put this data together for us during the round table I had a chance to you know no one really answered asked questions at first so I looked at Bob Marzano and I said Bob I just want to thank you for doing the work that we don't have time to do scientifically proven and
051datadriven decisionmaking is what's important in driving our students forward Ward at being level two certified means that we've done the work and we will continue doing the work to make sure that all of our teachers are equipped to do the right thing HRS is a districtwide framework for Success every one of our buildings is taking part in this it's participating at a high level everyone should be certified by the end of the year when's the last time you saw five or six buildings come together and agree at more than an 80% rate on anything we can't even get the country to vote for more than 49% of one person right e e e great quick question so their proficiency levels are one of the major factors that move them from level to one to two
052to three to four to five all right Sean's up all right so Kim told me I'm anchor which makes me S slightly nervous I've never been an anchor of anything probably because I was mockingly called Wheels growing up so that probably tells you how fast I was um but I didn't run either Dave someone ran for me that was one of the great things about it so um there was Hrs 12 hours of breakout sessions plenty of I'm going to call it education nerdery that we love but the whole time I think the discussion the four of us kept coming back to is why do we need it here why do we need it in albertly and why does it need to be a foundational part of our district and that's what I'm hoping my
053message can be across as as I talk is why is it so essential to the work we do um and really it came down to some ABCs for me I I think the first one to me was a accountability uh we all know the metrics in education they're often inadequate I mean we we rely on MCA scores graduation but we can't rely on something like that to make the kind of changes our kids deserve we can't wait for data in the spring or the summer to tell us if the school is running right we need constant data and that's one of the things HRS provides is they give us those priorities those indicators and I think they're the priorities that you as a board and our community have said is important to them there's things
054in there like do we take parent feedback do we give opportunities for parents in our community to say this is what we want in our schools there's things like do we use our financial resources adequately do they do we have enough do we use them responsibly and I think the thing that I love most about it is there's a standard and it's datadriven so when someone asks that question okay are parents giving a chance to give feedback about how the school's going it's not just a I talked to a parent yesterday we have to have data to show these are the opportunities this is what they said so I think that's one of the parts that we love about HRS as building leaders is we're constantly getting the information we need to do what's best
055for our staff and students and so I think that's a huge part of it um the next part for me is buyin uh for all of you who have worked with people you know the Buy in on anything is incredibly hard we're seven years in and I think one of the things that right away is hard to do with any teacher is teaching kids is it's it's a passion it's very passionate subject to a lot of them and to go into a teacher's room and talk about how they do it and talk about ways to improve is not an easy conversation to a lot of them this has been their life's work they you know they live and breed this every day but I can tell you the buyin is real in our building teachers
056are having conversations about instructional strategies that weren't there seven years ago they want to talk about physical movement they want to talk about these different things that engage kids they volunteer to host rounds so we do this twice a year where a teacher basically says who wants to come in and watch me teach and a group of teachers will go around like you see on U gr's Anatomy moving around room to room watching a teacher teach what's great what are you doing well what do I want to steal and then they all get together afterwards and talk through it that is only possible when a staff founds value in it and not only do they found value enough to let us do it they volunteer now to let people come in um the curriculum Chris
057talked about he's right 5 years ago we started it and Mary Joe can attest as someone who worked a curriculum Neil can attest it's not something that people like to put down on paper and work their way through our staff is pounding it away scales are a tough thing to master and they just spent 16 hours and it was 16 great hours so to look back at seven years of buying and say well you know we can move on past that we'll try something else that's been the downfall of Education across the world is we often ask Buy in on this we're going to try it for two years until we're ready to go to the next thing and so to give up on that would be tough the C for me was compatibility I
058think one of the things you'll find if you ask around there is no Marzano way and they make that a very big I mean they're let's be real they're a sales company they make money um but they try to tell you you can't do it our way you need to do it the Albert Lee way you need to know your community you need know your building Dave you asked the question about building wise you know districts can adopt HRS each building will have to find their path they have to respond to their data as it is in that month so there is no one path and so that ability to adjust to what our students and staff need at that moment I think is a huge reason why HRS is so important to us but
059I think probably the arguably the most important part is the sustainability side we are an industry of turnover so I'm getting ready to start my second decade here in Albert Lee we'll be having my third superintendent we're fortunate we've only had two principles at the high school but we've gone through 10 administrators how many different board members have we had it's tough in an industry to constantly have a start over and start over and start over the strength of HRS is no matter what the framework is there and we point blank asked Bob Marzano what's the strength of that and he said well yeah you know when you average 2 point every 2.7 years a new principal is going to come and take over being able to just pick up right where the work left
060off is huge it means that our staff doesn't start over which means our kids don't start over and that's what we're here for so I think that's probably one of the biggest Parts I took away is the framework keeps us moving forward we don't become stagnant we don't move back um and that's really where we need you and this is the part where the board support is huge we asked point blank to Marzano does it matter if a district says we're an HR District vers a school now you need to remember Marzano is a big data guy so of course he wanted to hedge at the first and say I don't have a big enough sample size but then when you pushed him further it was yes and we saw that there were board members
061at the S at the summit on districts that had announced we are an HRS District by board resolution we are going to adopt that so I think one of the things the four of us took away that's huge is we hope it's at the Forefront of our superintendent search this is too great of work to be pushed back by someone who has a difference of opinion and even if possible down the road the idea of a resolution from the board saying we are an HRS school we'll do things our way we'll adjust as we go but it always falls inside the framework of HRS and I think ultimately the reason why we want to push that is you know Tyler had brought up high reliability schools what's a high reliability organization and I think the
062message to me was high reliability organizations make mistakes but they don't have failures because they make sure the mistake doesn't become systemic and I think our children and our staff and our community deserve that from our schools and I think the way to guarantee that is HRS thanks Sean any questions for Sean well obviously I totally agree um starting the seven years ago but you know back then we told staff um in buildings we said one of the benefits of HRS is that um you know let's take Kim LaRon principal at hson if she moves to another building etc etc leaves hson the next principal cannot come in and just do their complete own thing and then put the staff in in a tailes fin it is continuing the systems and structures of a high
063reliability school and obviously I highly agree with a superintendent as well because I know the hours and hours and hours and years that teachers have been putting in with the Marzano work of you know as a teacher we talked about well what is scientifically based instruction and we all kind of guessed at it well here's here's Marzano's work I don't know I've seen that what do you think and and those would be our conversations this put in we have the evidence we look at effect sites we look at the data we decide well this wasn't scientific based and so I think we're getting better as instructors that no matter if you're a firste teacher or a 30-year teacher we're always growing and so when Tyler showed the 43 um instructional strategies a new teacher maybe
064is starting on I don't want to say easier ones cuz teaching is not easy but some of the ones that you would think a new teacher would start on where a master teacher might be they're diving into stuff they haven't done before and really taken that classroom to a new level so um I do agree for you know as a superintendent it bringing them on as part of the HRS process well I will say U you said seven years ago I was going to say five or six years ago go um from a personal standpoint it seemed like the shiny new nickel sorry Mary Joel you were involved I mean but I was really you know I was really I've been really happy to see that and I've had an opportunity it's probably been three
065years ago and I to set in on some of the different schools when they go through the the smart goals and all that and I like as you said the sustainability or the consistency that we can see and it's just just like any good athletic academic uh music program or anything it's all about that coach that's always there and it doesn't always have to be the coach it's the program that's in place because if I leave tomorrow and I was doing a good job and Joe comes in and takes over that's what it's all about because he said the kids don't have to change just the way we're looking at it maybe we're not at the master level at the time but we can sure get there because our kids know that so I know
066like I said I I I had said that to Mike here a number of years ago too when we started is this and I did call it the shiny new nickel and I said I just don't like to see something new all the time and it has been nice to see and I'm glad that we've been continually reporting on it too so thank you yeah because I would say when you said shiny new nickel it did remind me seven years ago of we did have a lot of different initiatives going if you're at hon you had this going if you're at hotter and you had this going well teachers change based on you know section sizes um Etc we might have uh teacher who taught first grade here this year now they're in another building
067and we just throw a new system at them they're like whoa we can't keep up with this it was just spinning and so Dr Funk was very clear I mean there was complete buyin from um district office to buildings that initiatives have to stop this is the system and structure we're using it has to align with HRS it align I see Kathy neore here she started Q comp I don't know how many years ago Kathy but HRS aligned beautifully with Q comp is meant to for Teacher Improvement this gives us that structure on well what does teacher Improvement look like and so it just it it has align very well it's been a lot of work but any other thoughts questions you don't have to run back you can take your time Sean thank you
068to all of you thanks guys Kim and Chris and Tyler and Sean thank you thank you okay that'll bring us to 10.1 and that is the um interim superintendent contract and uh you had an opportunity to take a look at it online but I will look for a um a motion to approve and then we'll in a second then we'll have a discussion if there's some needed I'll move to approve okay move to approve is there a second second and Neil seconds okay open to discussion if anyone has any questions Ashley is unable to be here tonight so I will do my best the six 60-day model that we came up with that that pretty well is established now January through May for the most part or June June okay okay and just to be
069totally transparent if we need more than 60 days I can approve that uh I know you know I I just have got to make one comment that I've gotten from a couple different people and it's not a knock a hit or anything to anyone but within the first six days that Dave was here he was in every building he had an opportunity to see many classrooms and I had a couple teachers come up and say he literally said what can we do for you I'm not saying I'm just saying that he is doing a great job for the district to kind of bring us together and to get us to the next level and I know when we talked to him that was his big thing was I want to be here basically said I'm
070not going to be a babysitter I want to make sure that we're doing what we need to do to get the next full-time person in so but just piggyback on that Dave that's the feedback I probably have heard the most from uh teachers and staff is that there there's a presence there and and a steadiness that comes with folks that know Dave and his professionalism so I think he's he has served our purposes to um get us on kind of solid ground as we do the search so it's was good to hear that feedback I just wanted to mention I appreciate um hearing about things that are happening in the district before we approached on the street necessarily I read it in the newspaper about things that we need to be we need to be
071um apprised of what's going on and he does a really good job with that and I think it this contract aligns with the discussions we had going into it so I I think it's a it's solid for that made it clear that communication was very important and I think Dave has uh done that has demonstrated some Superior communication to board members so again it's very much appreciated uh no questions but just for public information I wanted to mention that at the contract lists 60 total days um and it ends the end of June I believe the days are flexible um that's my understanding and then then the salary is listed as $44,100 any other thoughts comments I would imagine the contract will end up being online once it's approved like every other contract that we
072have within the district all right seeing none uh all those in favor signify by saying I I uh no the same sign okay uh contract pass 6 to zero Dave's not here tonight um thank you uh just a reminder that Thursday February 27th we'll have a special meeting here at 5 o'clock and that will continue to uh move us along in our superintendent search thank you everyone for coming tonight and stay St warm