001e or the tan memo everything oh Justin's bridging Both Worlds and it scary are hot actually we never changed it because it just rolls over and you never vot it against it and so I think what we should do is clean it up so it it is it's a good English teacher like it's you know wait till La is [Music] ready [Music] thank you wait did you get something you [Music] this regular meeting of the Independent School District 535 School Board is called to order at 531 p.m. on Tuesday April 9th 2024 in room 137 of the Edison building the board acknowledges this site and all RPS sites are situated on the ancestral land of the Dakota people and we honor the Dakota Nations and the sacred land of all indigenous peoples this meeting is
002being live streamed and interested members of the public are welcome and encouraged to view this meeting remotely at youtube.com backd 535 tonight's meeting is also being recorded and will be be posted on our YouTube channel following completion of the meeting the agenda and documents for this meeting are available online at Rochester schools.org back assembly present at this meeting are school board members superintendent Kent pel a non- voting ex officio member and assistant school board clerk Miss Lori Sam Miss Sam would you please call the role director here director here director Garcia here here Marin here here here at this time we offer the opportunity to say the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation God indivisible withy
003and justice for all item 2.1 is approval of the agenda are there any changes to the agenda move approval second it has been moved and seconded to approve the agenda all those in favor say I I any opposed the agenda has been approved um a note to the board and the community assembled if we're still meeting around 7 o'cl we'll decide whether or not we should take a 10-minute recess at that time or sometime later during the meeting comments to the board it is important for the school board to hear from our stakeholders regarding issues that impact our students staff families and schools we welcome communication via email phone call at our community engagement listening sessions and here during comments to the board persons who want to make comments to the board must fill out
004the online request to provide comments to the board form by 5:00 pm on the Monday before the school board meeting to sign up for a time slot the form is available on the RPS website Rochester schools.org under Schoolboard Communications and on the SYM main page at Rochester schools.org the purpose of of comments to the board is to give community members an opportunity to provide input directly to the school board about issues that fall within our Authority the board and superintendent do not respond directly to the speaker's comments during the meeting but may follow up with the speaker if requested and appropriate a reminder that policy 206 and procedure 206a set the time place and manner procedures and restrictions on comments to the board these ensure privacy protections for students and staff and prohibit comments that
005are threatening profane lwd vulgar obscene harassing abusive or constitute a personal attack on others speakers when your name is called please come to the table choose a microphone to speak into and be seated you will have three minutes to speak and the timer will be displayed right in front of me please begin your remarks by stating your name if you have written materials to the board please provide them to the assistant Schoolboard clerk prior to your remarks and she will distribute them to Schoolboard members speaker one this evening is Karen Sharon e our next agenda item is 4.1 information and Outreach Student Activities and Athletics recognition and pick up thank you chair Nathan this is one of the favorite times for many of us we get to recognize our athletes our artists our scientists we
006got I know some in the hallway here I want to just invite folks if you are not planning to stay this is a good time to transition so we can make space for students um but if you are we welcome you uh to stay we are going to try and make sure we have a somewhat clearer process this year than we've had in the past and that process is going to be pretty common sense but one that we haven't always made really clear I'm going to turn it over in a moment to our chief of schools Jackie Peterson and Jackie is going to ask a number of people to bring up coaches and advisors who will recognize students now students if you are here when your coach or your advisor is talking about you face
007this way because these folks they're the school board they're my bosses they're very important they want to see you they want to see your faces and so while your coach is talking please turn to face this way when your coach or your advisor is done talking we want you to turn around and Miss Sam is going to head out right there in the middle of the room and we're going to get a picture of you and after we take that picture that's when we want to clap for all of the teams folks so we want to get this a bit more coordinated um so to sum up while you are uh being talked about if you are a student here please face the board uh they want to see your face and then right after
008we finish that and we want coaches and advisers to be a part of this too please turn Face the audience Miss Sam will take a picture and then we'll recognize you with some Applause before we get into all of that one thing we want to do whatever you're here for whether it's a program a sport the Arts we want to recognize the parents and caregivers who are here because this can't happen without all of you you get kids to practices to rehearsals um and you encourage them in many ways uh to take that risk and get out there on the field or up on the stage so I would like to ask the board to join me and thanking all of our parents and caregivers now and then we are going to make the rest
009of this presentation just about the kids and so I'm going to um H turn it back to our chair who's going to uh kick us off before Miss Peterson uh takes over so I'm going to ask Deb lass to come up to introduce Samuel asper our national champion in the National stem challenge hey good evening everybody I am Deb lass I am a 8ighth grade science teacher I'm sorry de we see Samuel you're a genius but I just gave all these directions no come out here in the front come on we're all going to be working for you in 5 years so okay no there you stand right there sorry Deb um so now we're gonna we're Miss lass is going to give that intro and then when we're done you're going to turn and
010we're going to take a picture of you in class you're right there you're doing everything you need to do right now please so as I said I'm an eighth grade science teacher at John Adams Middle School I'm here to introduce Samuel Caspar and I got to meet him as a seventh grader when his teacher said I have an advanced learner who's very Advanced what can we do um so i' I've had the pleasure of being a science teacher this year and to kind of let you know this is a student that's very self-motivated a hard worker and he really p and thinks about things in a deep manner when I said Samuel you've had some experience as a seventh grader how about writing an APA this year he looks at me and most of us
011have been to gr school go what and he goes oh okay so um one of the opportunities we put in front of Samuel this year to um kind of give him a challenge was called the National stem Challenge and um we are proud to announce that Samuel has been announced as one of the champions of the nation and he is being flowing out to Washington DC in a couple of days here he will be presenting to lawmakers and leaders across our nation at the stem Festival that is taking place in Washington DC so Samuel we are so proud of you now you can turn around and we're going to clap [Applause] I'd like to call up Mark quizley Century High School Activities director to introduce um I think Rochester Raiders to begin with and then
012he'll talk about the sentury uh students I'm not sure if it's got a mind of its own tonight I'm not sure if coach coppler is here or any of our adapted oh there you are walked right by you Jeff coppler our Rochester Raiders floor hockey coach is going to come up and just say a few words about our Raiders uh for the winter season Jeff yeah come on up thank you Mark um just want to Quick introduce Andrew Westerman he was the captain of our Raider floor hockey team that finished fourth place at this year's uh state tournament in March um Andrew was the All Conference All State and the post bulletin player of the year for adapted hockey um also Andrew is a great leader he's also the captain of the softball and the
013soccer teams that compete in the fall and the spring and thankfully Andrew was able to be excused from softball practice so he could be here tonight um just a quick note for the adapted Athletics program in general for the school board I may not be aware this adapted Athletics program that the Raiders participate in through the Minnesota State High School league is the only one of its kind in the nation and the Rochester Raiders floor hockey team just competed completed our 31st year of competition uh since that time we've added both the soccer and the softball team so now we compete in all three Sports softball hockey and soccer so this is quite an opportunity for these athletes they get to participate state tournaments they can letter they do everything any other athlete is able
014to achieve all the while being recognized as uh one of their peers throughout the schools so it's really very great opportunity for these players to have this opportunity for this adapted Athletics program and Andrew is a great example of uh what being a Rochester Raider is all [Applause] about and you did hear that correctly Andrew is a three- sport athlete in adapted Athletics which is unbelievable and Andrew you do a great job of representing Rochester Public Schools um as um hot off the press as this weekend our robotics team um had some wonderful news and I'm going to have the robotics coaches come up next here um but as they're coming up I do want to acknowledge two of our winner coaches that were Minnesota State High School coaches association co-head coaches of the Year
015Josh klingfus and Matt arage from our hockey team our Co-op hockey team with Sentry John Marshall so we'd like to say congrat ulations to them next robotics good evening I'm Tim Alexander I have the privilege of being one of the coaches for The High School robotics team that's uh representing all three of the rogest public schools uh I couldn't get any of the students to leave the shop tonight they're all elbow deep in robot right now trying to get ready for our world competition but I did want to come and give you a quick update uh we finished our competition season 245 and0 uh we're ranked number nine in the state after uh two Regional events so what that does for us is it also gets us to the state competition in Minnesota robotics is
016considered a Varsity Sport just like football basketball Etc and so there's a state competition where the top 36 teams compete so once we get back from Worlds we'll fix whatever damage we have and and then prepare for that that's on uh May the 4th Star Wars and so then hopefully after that we can come in and give you a final report and get some students to show up but thank you for having [Applause] us Mr queasy before you go on I think I'd like to send the robotics team off with their customary cheer the team number is 2530 so the customary chair is five 10 2530 well [Applause] done and Madam chair can I ask Mr Carlson for um more credit limit on the department credit card because um this trip is going to be
017about $30,000 for them and to come up with that in about a week and a half is going to be quite a task for this group so they're dealing ently working on that as we speak and as they said they do not want to be out of the shop tonight um up next I'm going to introduce our boy swim and dive if our boy swim and dive guys had come up coach Freeman could not be here this evening um she had another commitment but I do want to introduce these outstanding young men 14 weeks of practice 3,336 yards of swimming just down and back a couple of times um uh in front of you tonight we have the free relay relay fifth place finishers um which was Eli Holmes Owen Kelly Nate crom and Andrew
018Linden also in the 400 free relay they took fifth place and Grady barried was an addin in that group and then Grady also took eighth place in the hunter breast stroke um Brett Boyd is an all americ and Felix Lou is also an All-American and Joe vesterby is an All-American based on their race times and this team also was academic gold so when they weren't swimming they had their nose in books um congratulations to the century boy swim and [Applause] dive and is John gamble here this evening I don't know if I saw we had one girl on the century John Marshall uh girls hockey team that was academic All State and that was anakah torbenson and anakah I don't see her either next up Miss Shelley philson with BPA good evening I'm sh filzen
019and I'm the U business teacher at Century High School and BPA adviser and tonight I I got to read for my notes guys because I'm nervous and I want to I stand before you today with with immense pride and joy to celebrate the remarkable achievements of the state BPA winners of Century High School these students have exemplified excellence dedication and determination showcasing the true Spirit of academic Pursuit and professional Readiness so allow me to introduce you to our outstanding individuals and some teams I have Anna milvik who secured first place at economic research individual category and together with Ria Shaw they clinched second place in the economic research team this is for the state William Yan whose Proficiency in Personal Finance Management earned him fourth place in the state mahadav Krishna and Krishna cardival both
020achieving fifth place in health administration Concepts Peter Schuler attended um he remained excuse me he achieved second place in fundamental accounting Colin Chen first place in medical coding Angie gasner she's gone tonight she had her wisdom she's taken out excellence in um business law and ethics and fifth place in um also showcasing in digital marketing concepts I Max ofad all showcasing his skills and four took fourth place in Python Programming Danielle Wing which um she just stepped away but Danielle she achieved first place in advanced test stop publishing second place in health administration Concepts fifth place in Information Technology open Concepts and she also took um as a finalist position in user experience design team with Dean Wayne and Ethan Zay he achieved a first place in advanced accounting uh armita kazmi were in fourth
021place fundamentals of web design fifth place in financial math and analyst Concepts um and then our teams again that was Anna milvik and Ria Shaw and then uh de Danielle way and Dean wayang so these are some outstanding students I'm proud of the work you've done and well done up next Mr chuck handland with chess uh I'm Chuck wheeler handland and this I just finished my 24th year of coaching the century chess team I coached the team as a faculty member at century and I've continued to coach since retirement so I also the proud parent of two graduates of the Rochester Public Schools one that recently finished training to be a federal law enforcement officer in Customs and Border Protection the other is a lawyer I'm so grateful they graduated before their mind got messed
022up by Dei um anyway this team represents both the JV and the varsity chess chess team uh the century JV finished first in the Rochester area Scholastic chess League City Cup Tournament and Josh Wang on your left here who's an eighth grader and will be part of the varsity team finished 10th overall at the state tournament and uh on his left to your right is Ethan Zang who is a senior and I have worked with Ethan since sixth grade you're going to Ethan's not leaving after this Ethan's going to be popping up and down up and down because he's involved with so many amazing activities and successes um but Ethan was the team captain and the varsity team won the regular season undefeated won the city cup and then they went on to State I
023do want to tell you that at the state tournament you can bring as many players as you want uh East viw had 19 uh wetta had 26 but they only count the scores of your top four players we had five and they ended up in second place and that didn't leave much wiggle room for somebody having a bad tournament these guys were hyperfocused and they're not the greatest players but it's the greatest team I've ever had for them to finish at the highest position ever for centuries so lot of success thank [Applause] [Music] you and last on my list for kale Bryant's uh our math league if we have any Math League members we would like to have them quick come up please once again thanks for the opportunity to recognize not all our athletes
024but our academic and our activity Fine Arts students here this evening this math League team took second in the state tournament uh for Rochester Public Schools and Century High School um Kyle couldn't be here this evening but but he wanted to make sure that we recognize this group of outstanding students um golden Pang Amita casmi Albert Hugh Eric Ding and ARA casmi Elizabeth Z Felix Lou Arden Pang William Yen Eric Hill Dan Min Daniel manguel um Evelyn Kim uh Jaden holy moly is Jade Jaden Are you standing here no okay I'm not even gonna try that one I'll come back to that Jerry Zang Mandy Yao Nick singer and Shannon Kim and I think it's J chanana uh is the last name I butchered it and I'm gonna apologize right now the Rochester Century Math
025League team [Applause] thank you Mark I'd like to call out Brian KY activities director at John Marshall High School thank you for having us out tonight um first group I'm going to call up or first person I'm going to call up is coach Chad o of the JM girls basketball team head coach and Kira dur senior at John Marshall so those of you who don't know Kira Kira is not only a basketball player she is also our drum line captain at JM and captain for the girls basketball team and she is an academic all state with a 3.96 GPA while being captain of two different groups so uh couldn't have had a greater Captain um for my first year coaching this team um and they had a very successful season yeah [Applause] [Music] so next
026I'd like to have uh Claire sagst come up uh head coach of our debate program along with Aaron Russ good evening my name is Claire SE stuan and as Mr KY said I am the head debate coach at John Marshall um I have known Aaron Russ since he was an eighth grader and he has been on both of my speech and debate teams for five years now um Aaron got a couple cool Awards this year um the first is he is officially fourth in the state for Congressional debate and was recently awarded the academic All-American award for the national speech and debate Association reaching 1,700 points in this activity which is basically unheard of so through his multiple years of both speech and debate acting as My Captain for multiple years um I'm just going
027to say I don't know what the program is going to look like when Aaron leaves but I am forever grateful for everything that he brought to our team and to me thank you [Applause] [Music] Aaron and then our final John Marsh team is is Aspen Smith here girls why you come up for dance these are members of our uh Jam um dance team and they were winners of bronze medal academic winners uh for State this year for dance [Applause] thank you Brian I'll call up uh Jeff Whitney Mayo high school activities director thank you thanks Bor for having us down here tonight we appreciate getting the opportunity to celebrate a lot of successes over the winter season uh we have three groups to recognize one of our groups could not be here tonight neither the
028the kids or uh the adviser Aon Larson with Science Olympia um maybe we can get them down here in the spring when they were all able to attend they were third place in state for this Science Olympia competition uh and then I'll introduce next our um BPA adviser Pam prey all right thank you for allowing us to be here again tonight to congratulate these young men and all the other BPA folks that excelled so well at uh the state conference I like Shelly wrote things down um and we'll try not to go off of my script because that it never works well when I do that so again thank you for letting us be here tonight BPA as business Professionals of America and I've had the opportunity to work with the students in this organization
029for about eight years um this year after regions we had about 15 kids qualify for the state competition which was like the best we've done uh it's just pretty awesome to see all those kids and they went up to the state conference in March and competed against about 12200 kids um in a hotel at the same time that we had Maryland and I think um Northwestern basketball teams in the hotel so it's a busy Hotel uh but in any case the two young men that I have here tonight would be Alex he qualified for Nationals and our fundamentals of desktop publishing he placed fifth in the state this is his first year competing in BPA and just did amazing work he has done a lot of Publications um for us with our small business man
030uh small business bus strategies class um helped us out when we were doing some fundraising for the polar plunge and created some great great flyers for us and I need to give a shout out to miss oi who is our graphic design um teacher who taught Alex what he or Axel excuse me what he knows but Axel again amazing young man and did very very well and the other rep that we have here tonight is uh Sammy sha the time is now vote for Shia well Minnesota BPA knew it was the right time and at our state conference the delegates delegates V voted him to serve as Minnesota bpa's vice president of specialized activities which I still am not quite sure what that all uh entails but it sounds like a fun activity or fun
031thing to do um but in any case it didn't then there after he got elected to be a state VP um he earned three top Awards he was first in banking and finance second in financial math and Analysis and that was out of what 124 kids so he did quite well there and fifth in personal finance um so he and axel and Anna Medina who couldn't be here tonight will be heading to Chicago in May to compete in our national BPA conference um in addition to these to these two fine gentlemen we also had about five or six other students qualify for our national competition um in team events we had um ANUK Kashi Berg who actually qualified in two events she was second in payroll accounting I tell you these kids if you need
032help financially I think they can help you out a little bit um Milan gupto was part of a a team event uh Anna Medina was part of the team event for small business bus management and also second in entrepreneurship and Elena Ripley also was part of the the team um other folks who were finalists um Liam butterfest James pry Tony Dum God I just said that Tony Dunn um Will Smith Tom Cella Z rocker uh Taj bajra Kellen Berger and Natalie hurt um one thing I want to mention again that a majority of these kids are first-time BPA competitors this year like holy buckets that's just amazing um a couple of these kids were also part of putting on first annual entrepreneurship Fair um student entrepreneurs um in November at Mayo high school and again
033also assisted with promoting and doing some fundraising for the polar plunge and I just have to tell you um 33 years almost completed for me and I tell you every day that I get a chance to work with young amazing kids like that I just feel blessed every day so thank you for giving us the opportunity to work with the kids and congratulations to these to and all the other BPA members I wasn't going to say anything but Pam I taught business education before going into Athletics and she took my teaching job when I left I wasn't going to say it was 33 years ago but she said it and you can see the the program is soaring ever since so she's done an amazing job thanks Pam uh she's it is it's an incredible
034Department she's done an amazing job all right our next uh uh activity is our wrestling activity and this year we got a special guest we've got girls wrestling and uh male wrestling so uh a new thing here in state of Minnesota so art will tell you a little bit about our success in both hi I'm Mark Trimble head dressing coach here at Mayo high school I have one of my athletes with me called her Sheen uh he plays third in State this year at 145 pounds it was his third trip to the state tournament he's only a junior so he's got his uh sight set on the title so I have to rush through things say I think he has another practice at 7 o' over at rctc for something so um also uh qualified
035for state and placing in state is jeriana Marshall it was her second time placing in State uh took third at 235 pounds and she couldn't be with us here tonight her mom uh had surgery so sometimes the students have to become the caregivers for others that normally are their caregiver so uh we're uh thinking about her tonight as she helps her mom through this but she did a wonderful job uh they were also CER was also a captain of our uh boys team that uh achieved gold status academically um having over a 35 team GPA um for us and we ended up six total wrestlers four boys two girls making it to the state tournament this year so a great season for us uh thank you for letting us uh continue with Athletics here in
036ashington let's keep pushing for better so all right thank you [Applause] G have Mr quizley Pop back up here we realize we missed one century group yes my apologies I flip the page and I miss Victor Robinson he is gonna bring up groups of model un and mck trial thank you just wanted to mentioned hi I'm Vic Robinson I teach social studies at centry high school and uh in my extended youth I've learned a few things one uh extracurricular activities so powerful for all parts of a students development so I encourage kids to get involved in these things obviously um just want to make note that uh our model un program in Rochester is one of the tops in the state and U we've had lots of kids involved uh right now uh the Center
037for Youth voice is in the process of working with the YMCA to expand that program and you're going to hear about the center uh for youth voice quite a bit in the future coming up so that program will be expanding not only model un but youth in government as well I wanted to um um bring up uh talk about mock trial tonight because our team has done exceedingly well and Ethan Zang is here of all people representing so he's come on up Ethan and uh Ethan Z represent is representing our team tonight because Angie gasner is having his wizdom teeth pulled out I guess and um our other two leaders are Juniors and they're getting ready for the ACT test tomorrow so they didn't want to waste any time with anything like this which anyway
038so uh we have about 20 kids on our mock trial team at centry high school and uh Ethan is one of the captains and this year uh I should say over the last uh 15 years we've been climbing the ladder and finally we broke the top 10 this year and we made it to sixth place in state out of 110 teams in the state that's a pretty big deal for us uh mock trial is the type of competition where uh the Minnesota State Board Association uh puts together a case a different case every year the team has to understand the the um the uh um plaintiff side or the prosecution side and the defense side one year it's a criminal case one year it's a Civic case this year was a criminal case and it's
039a good thing that U we had a a criminal lawyer with us working this year and I'd like to introduce Mr James hos as our lawyer coach for our team and he has a uh daughter who goes to Century High School and he just said I wonder if they need any help at sentry with anything boy were we lucky because uh um James works with the U uh the homestead County District Attorney's office and he elevated our are at competition level quite a bit so thank you James for all your work and uh um as it as it goes this is a program for teaching kids how to speak well logically and um with a little bit of fight and you would not want to meet Ethan in a courtroom I promise you you want
040him on your side so good job Ethan and all the team for sixth place in State this year [Applause] last but not Le least I'd like to call up Josh Halverson for stem fair and Science Olympia I am not involved with science olympiads so if you are feel free to come up after this um so stem fair is all about getting kids to do science and engineering projects that are exciting to them in a personal way and we're recognizing um about 200 plus students who participated in the Rochester Regional stem fair the Minnesota state state science and engineering fair and a few students who are going to go to the international science and engineering Fair um I just wanted to quickly say that the secret or not so secret secret of our program is mentorship
041it's how we welcome people into the program it's kind of our strategy for um equity in science and hopefully equity in RPS as well um our mentor of the year was Dan Moyer he is an Immunology PhD candidate from the Mayo Clinic Graduate School of biomedical Sciences um he's brilliant he's funny the kids loved him he was relatable so Dan was one of about I think 45 mentors who came to our schools and um welcomed new kids into the world of science and then our teacher of the year was Jana Monette at Dakota Middle School um same thing she facilitated uh the after school stem mentorship program there um and made it special um I'm hoping our students can just very briefly um say what their projects are about um a few of them are
042going to the international science fair so i' go name grade school and then just what your project is very quickly hello my name is D Wong I attend centry high school and I'm a junior um in my project I created uh a model using machine learning to predict um novel drug drug interactions and I applied it to elicit drugs which I hope can prevent more overdoses and is also applicable to Other Drugs hello I'm Mr roal Gabriel um I'm an aspiring chemist from Mayo high school I'm in 11th grade uh we had a project um related to improving cost and sustainability of lising my on battery anodes and um yeah hope to improve it in the future and this is a team project with hello I'm erir koser I'm a sophomore at Sentry High School
043and I'm an aspiring physicist I'm Eric Hill I am a junior at Century High School and I was also part of this team project I also want to recognize Winnie new from Kellog who's here today Winnie are you sixth grade sixth grade when he's in seventh grade and she did the hard part of science which is writing it's how you get the money it's how you share your results and she did an excellent job and got the outstanding uh paper award and then I think AR was here too earlier and she's also just a brilliant science Communicator um we have these awards for our um isaf or international science and engineering Fair students so we just wanted to present them here [Applause] today [Applause] all right I think we had one other Miss missed opportunity
044here with Science Olympiad Cent Science Olympiad for sentury and M why don't we have those students please come forward if they're here I know Cheryl mortell could not be here this evening and uh Mr Whitney Aaron Larson could not be here this evening um again outstanding uh accolades for these groups as well um the male group Place third at State and I'm sorry go ahead and pick up the mic and introduce yourself I believe I'm the only one from the century Science Olympia team here tonight I'm erish yoser 10th grader Richard talk about your ACC lishments I'm going to put you on the spot go ahead sure so the century Science Olympia team placed 10th at State not sure exactly who I should be talking to all right so Century plac 10th at State as
045Mr quizley said Mayo placed third at State and personally I got third place in fir me questions with my partner William Yan who's not here tonight and I believe we got second place in robot tour thanks to two other incredible students Finley barlay and Copeland steel and I believe we also got several others in the top eight I'm not exactly sure how many but overall I think we did well of course Mayo did excellent they got third place outstanding thank [Applause] you and Dr clel again and board members thank you for the opportunity this evening you have all all the uh students that were recognized tonight and those who were unable a to be here in your board pack and I'd like to thank the athletic or the activities directors Josh Halverson and all the
046uh coaches and adults that make um activities and Athletics possible so thank you for being here tonight before we move on there's one recognition that was in the board packet and I believe that he would not self-identify himself but Josh alerson was awarded the Minnesota Academy of Science inspiring scientists award and I want to say a little bit about Josh being um in charge of the stem fair here in Rochester and coordinating uh these kids going to State and facilitating the mentoring and I just like us to give Josh a round of applause for all the work he's put into this [Applause] our next item is 4.2 National assistant principal week and National School librarian day on April 4th we recognized National School librarian day school librarians play a huge role in children's academic success
047by helping children find resources and creating an environment where students are motivated to learn we appreciate all the work and organization they do to keep our students learning environment the best possible we thank you for sparking a lifelong love of reading by connecting our students to books that provide Windows into the experiences of others tools to be informed citizens and the keys to unlock Adventures far beyond their own world and April 1st to the 5th was assistant principal week our dedicated Rochester Public School assistant principles work tirelessly to bolster teachers motivate students support their principal create a positive learning community and tackle the many unpredictable challenges that land on their desk thank you for all you do for our students and staff to make the school day run more smoothly item 4.3 is our project
048search presentation superintendent pick out thank you chair Nathan Kelly Campbell are you want to come on up Kelly is going to is our one of our coordinators of special education services at the secondary level and she is going to uh introduce the team from Project search I want to say to all of you students thank you for being very patient we know it's a long time to wait it's good to see you again oh not over there walking around ma clinic but here uh and the school board's very excited to recognize your amazing program and the amazing Educators who work with you so Kelly good evening chair Nathan Dr pel and members of the RPS School Board my name is Kelly Campbell and I am the special education coordinator for the secondary schools and programs
049tonight you'll get to hear about one of our secondary programs available to RPS students with disabilities project search through this program RPS students with disabilities who are entering their final year of school are able to have a unique hands-on experience at the Mayo Clinic while gaining competitive employment skills a day at project search includes classroom time time and experience with one of the three internship rotations they will complete throughout the year these internships are in different departments throughout the clinic and some of them are at other campuses this is a great way to practice many transition skills such as navigating transportation that our students with disabilities have been learning about in the classroom it is exciting to have our students with disabilities working side by side with various male clinic staff and supervisors once they
050have completed their year at project search they will graduate and pursue employment of their choice we've had RPS students with disabilities who have been hired as lab assistants Environmental Services technicians housekeepers utilities workers and more at Mayo Clinic as well as other area businesses to share more about the program I would like to introduce carile Corson our RPS teacher who works with project search and his panel of students that are here tonight to share their experiences in this unique [Music] opportunity [Music] good evening this is this year our theme is search forward we chose that because we are search forward to competitive employment my name is V art project search has helped me to be more professional white I am as Clinic I used to act imature and C enough around during my day now
051I continue to work on acting and adult and not FaceTime my friend or acting sir white work andic I am I am proud of [Applause] myself hello hello my name is Sam d party search has helped me dress more Prof professional I used to wear FR and a t-shirt every day but now I wear dress pants with the about and just dress shirt everyday dressing professional had made me feel more confident I want to thank everybody for the support good evening my name is Lis Guzman when I start project search I wasn't sure to I want to stay in program and my attendance was poor but at my first rotation in Food Service all the co-workers treating me with respect I really enjoy serving food talking to the people in Food Service I would like
052to get a job Food Service when I finish a project [Music] [Applause] search good evening my name is Josh henen bger I've changed since I first started project search in September 2023 and now I'm getting to know male clinic better whenever I'm stuck with a task that is hard for me I'll tell Carlile the skills trainers or my supervisor to show me a better way to do the task I am going to apply at mail Clinic because it will be a safe place for me to [Applause] work good evening my name is Tyler Mand my my nursing rotation was good for me because I had to talk to people I I went into patients rooms to stock supplies and I had to talk to patients before this rotation it was hard for me to talk
053to people this rotation give me conferences I will need so I can talk to patients or customers I am ready to get a job [Applause] [Music] my name is Kirk Peterson my name is Kirk Peterson since I've started project search I've noticed I've become more confident by accepting feedback better and I've matured project search has been helpful on making me more professional for those Reasons I'm glad I came to project [Applause] search hi my name is Jane and I started project search in August which ironically is my middle name I've gotten better at increasing my endurance because of project search I've also gotten better at accepting feedback I am grateful for project search [Applause] hello I am Haz weberg since starting product search I have changed by becoming more confident with talking to new people
054and learning new jobs at nursing I go into a lot of patient rooms uh to stock supplies this has helped me be more are confident with my uh communication I'm learning the importance of uh being on time to a job and I'm thankful for being a produ church and thank you all for letting us present uh our point of view and do you have any [Music] [Applause] questions board members any questions what was a what was a surprise about working at Mayo Clinic before you went to mail Clinic you didn't think it would be like that but then you were like oh my gosh this is how they do I mean you already mentioned having to wear like nice clothes I'd like you to talk to my son who's 24 cuz he doesn't wear nice
055clothes yet but what else was something that was a surprise for you with working with you know adults in one of the like best hospitals in the world what's something youd yeah okay so in M clinic so for project service we have to show up on time and when you have to take the bus and get ready and after you do that and so project is actually of independent work experience for other self communication teamwork and how your self skills and be competitive employee awesome that's [Applause] great anybody else anybody else something that surprised you yeah getting badges you didn't know you get what did you get a badge for the badge badge okay you mean those badges okay duh oh that's great those are cool that's great yeah we uh uh we kep right
056so our teacher told him to stop oh got it that's fantastic thank you no no no envious of your badge always have cool badges anybody else maybe one more something that surprised you or that you'll think about from your time with project search yeah there's definitely one thing that uh most of the supervisors that we have or have had are are probably some of the nicest people that we uh ever gotten to know or uh will'll get to know so nice that was a nice surprise yeah I'm so glad you said that cuz it lets me thank everyone at Ma clinic for this so thank you very much you guys did amazing amazing work and we will see you at your graduation which uh is another highlight of the year so congratulations item 4.4 is
057board member committee updates does any board member have updates from their committees since the last meeting or any information to share direct M clock I have an update from the legislative committee this is primarily from the msba Friday chat room that their organization puts on for us during the uh current legislative session um quite a few updates because the session I learned um as of last Friday has 27 legislative days left so we're going to have a lot of activity between now and then the uh updates are that the House and Senate passed their supplemental budget targets for a total of $4 4775 million with 43 million dedicated to education funding for fiscal year 2425 and indicating that $18 million of that will be a permanent increase but the rest of it will be one-time
058funding so keeping that in mind also learned that the Senate has presented and in committee 156 education bills um 60 I'm sorry 156 education bills and 66 bills related to education the house has presented 163 education bills with 70 bills related to education and the Senate passed their omnus education policy Bill if anyone wants to look at that it's s uh Senate files 3567 the governor also presented his finance bill and it was heard in the house the House and Senate have also heard their Finance bills uh one thing particular that we watching on the legislative committee is that the Senate heard a bill that the msba presented testimony about and this is something we've been tracking pretty close at our district to uh provide a 2% increase in the G general education formula for
059f fiscal year 2025 there was testimony about that related to the fact that um that is what msba asked for and we advocated for last year um for a 5% increase the that was not what was attain um attainable at in um the 2023 legislative session and the impact of that now is that some districts are in uh Cuts in their budgets because we don't have that level of funding so the proposal is to increase it for a fiscal year 20125 if we're able to do that uh there was also discussion of the read Act and the author of that bill is senator may Quade she wants to make this bill work for districts and is interested in any input from districts about in particular if any teachers or other staff are watching um if
060there's any stories about how the Reda funding has been challenging here locally or any stories or ideas to improve the read act again she wants to make that bill work for all of our districts um getting a little bit in the weeds there was a discussion of local option Revenue to increase that provide some modifications to provide Equalization there's also recognition that that likely may not happen this year but it's the type of thing that um uh legislators are looking at and talking about this year so that it can be presented in future years and finally something that hadn't even been on our radar but but may impact RPS is that uh there's some issues with food service funding surpluses and some creative ways in a new bill to um perhaps be able to shift
061that back into things that can assist not just with the food service but with the facilities related to food service so we are tracking those bills closely again there's um about 25 legislative days left and we'll have another in uh update when um when we're back in back here in front of the board and or at the end of the session um I would just like to remind people that we have a Schoolboard listening session scheduled for April 19th at Franklin Elementary from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. and our co-hosts for that event will be pmoa women item 4.5 Schoolboard Academy the 2024 Schoolboard Academy will be held on April 25th 2024 and April 30th 2024 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. here in the Edison boardroom the content will be identical on both days so you
062don't need to attend both if you're interested Schoolboard Academy is an important opportunity to learn about the responsibilities requirements resources policies and practices related to being a member of the Rochester school board participating in Schoolboard Academy will be very informative to individuals considering running for the Rochester school board or community members looking for a deeper understanding of the work of the school board board we have a signup form available on the district website under Schoolboard elections or through the direct link that's available in this assmbly um agenda item tonight we also have updated our Schoolboard elections web page with detailed information regarding the Schoolboard election for school board seats 1 3 and 7 the uh Schoolboard elections web web page has key dates including dates of the elections if a primary election is needed and
063the period for filing for office which begins May 21st the next items on our agenda are consent items 5.1 through 5.15 would any board member like any item removed from the consent agenda for separate consideration move approval second it has been moved and seconded to approve the consent agenda all those in favor say I I any opposed the consent agenda has been approved board members it's one minute before would we like to continue on to our Focus topic or take a break before we dive into our agenda keep going okay the next item on our agenda is 6.1 it's a focus topic Our Youth Empowerment strategy update superintendent picout thank you chair Nathan and board members uh I already see will ruffen the second our executive director of equity and engagement coming up and SAR
064Lise Henry Henry who now has the title of coordinator of Youth EMP empowerment um as board members are aware our strategic plan um is rolling out in three waves and that is uh for many different reasons not least of which is that it is such an ambitious plan that if we tried to do everything in one year uh it would be impossible and so each wave has had a design phase and then we move into implementation during the design phase we have looked at research we've looked at best practice and especially we've engag engaged diverse stakeholders here in Rochester when we move into implementation that's where we begin to think what's it going to take to bring this thing to life whatever the initiative is at both the system level and at the school level
065so we are now in the midst of our third wave that final wave where we have design efforts underway for the last critical components of our strategic plan and uh will and Sarah Louise have been leading the design phase of Our Youth Empowerment strategy and so what they're going to give the board and others who are watching Now is really an early update on work in progress I'll be working with both of them over the summer as we did with the previous two waves of our strategic plan to translate these ideas into specific strategies and initiatives that we'll be integrating next year into our diss or our districtwide initiatives for systems change and our skips or our school continuous Improvement plans but this has been a rich discussion that uh sir Luiz and will have
066engaged in uh and I'm grateful to them and the other folks that have been a part of this process when we developed our strategic plan over nine months in 2021 and 2022 one of the loudest themes came from students themselves and it was they wanted two things to be happening one they wanted their voices to be heard about their schools about our community and two they wanted the chance to lead this is not a generation that is waiting around to ask to improve things in their schools and their communities uh and in our world and so what uh under will and Sarah Louise's uh leadership has become Youth Empowerment really has from the origins of our strategic plan had those two indispensable parts of the strategy of Youth voice and youth leadership and the last
067thing I'll say before I hand it over is those two things are related but different a student who doesn't ever want to lead anything because leaders have followers in some way still wants to be heard wants their perspective to be heard but leadership also doesn't just happen it's developed it's practiced it's supported and uh as we all know we have more than enough challenges for today's young people to help us lead and solve so will and Sarah Louise thank you for this overview of really pretty near the conclusion of our design phase and we'll be looking in the fall to come back and share with uh the school board and the community the specific ways we're going to translate this into action all right shair Nathan and school board members superintendent pel thanks for having
068us here at the board table again on what turned out to be a great night of student celebration so I think it's only right for us to talk about youth voice and uplifting them tonight through what we have for you um with our presentation tonight um I'm really playing second chair to the sir Louise show sir Lise has done a lot of the work um I've been supporting her throughout that but a lot of the leg work has been hers and and she deserves that recognition so just keep that in mind she's been uh leading all the work for us so this is already off to a fantastic start thank you again for having us um very excited to be here there we go so this is kind of the you are here map of
069the Strategic plan and and um one of the Fantastic pieces of Youth voice and student leadership is that it does intersect with some of the other um initiatives that are taking place um we look at strengthening supports and the mental health aspect of that um creating Community um by increasing belong that sense of belonging with students and then even empowerment and looking at how This lends itself into those postsecondary pathways so we pulled together a dynamic team of um staff members who really were committed to seeing how this fits in their sector so we have admin we have um people who work in special ed and even though we are looking primarily at um high school we did have um some input from Early Childhood as well as um because we're wanting to look at
070that for the future so this was our Dynamic group I'm starting off in high school with the intent of trickling now to middle school and elementary school so this this is just the starting point uh this was our charge uh using an old teacher trick of highlighting the words that we want you to gravitate towards uh just basically strengthening the capacity of our students so that they have a vehicle to express their perspectives and have an Avenue for leading change some of the questions I gathered our work again were how do we get the perspectives of our students in the Forefront so that we can use that in in order to make change going forward how do they see themselves providing leadership currently and then lastly are there any new tools that we can that
071we should consider when building this module up some additional questions we're looking at also new vehicles for youth leadership and how can we Implement those in our schools and also when we are talking with students what are some of the aspects of school that they want to talk about and share their perspectives and when we look at leadership what are the skills that are important to them not the things that we think they may need or we know in the future you're going to need this what are the things that are important to them that they want to build upon so in this process we looked at analyzing what are the current opportunities and then where are some spaces where we can improve we also researched best practices and um the impact of student leadership
072and youth voice on academics and and we looked at the programming and Frameworks and what are some things that are happening in other districts and in other um sectors that we could potentially take um so then we asked the question what does what does student leadership look like right so we have these are some um this is an example the top left is um K kids which is a leadership group of fourth graders at Riverside and they do all all sorts of empowerment type activities like leaving kind messages on their peers lockers or helping out at events and so starting that leadership early and then this right next to where it says what is you voice that's an example of one of our student school board meetings and so when we looked at kind of
073how we were going to find some sort of common definition we pulled a few so the first one when we're looking at what how do we Define you voice we're looking at do youth have opportunities to select topics or identify the needs that are important to them within their communities both in the school and outside of school and are they able to visualize where they fall in that and how they are able to impact change um looking at have they had the opportunity to lead a small or large group or take part in mentorship we heard one of our students talking about you know that process of having having somebody walk through them with it and how empowering that can be and so also practicing skills such as organization being flexible and fluid when they're
074setbacks and also um receiving perspective from people with different viewpoints and learning how to value that which we know even in this space that that is something that is relevant and valuable so we look at types of student for voice and um this we pulled up the spectrum of student voice oriented activity and we look at being heard right so we're hearing students and so that's volunteering having students talk about um what's important to them sharing feedback and we are doing some of this within um our district I think of things like having our students at a panel for new teacher right sharing their perspectives then we're looking at participation are students able to participate in meetings with decision makers well we have some of that um it does tend to particularly fall in um
075more of a formal setting right but while we're looking at this Continuum we're also looking at how do we extend into activism in leadership so how do we get into looking at those problems and then that co-planning piece and having that shared responsibility for outcomes so then another so when we look at student leadership another definition um was looking at students being in the position to influence and motivate and guide others towards achievement of a goal and so we had these we had these definitions and talked about it uh but we wanted to have some insight for the students and one thing that we've been really intentional about in this work is not speaking for the students about youth boys because that defeats the whole purpose so in a way to do that we wanted
076to get some perspective from students right here at RPS what I think youth voice is is making sure everyone in the community is heard and the representation of the problems and dayto day life of the student being able to talk in the class you know I think youth for is the youth advocating for what they believe in I think our youth is our future generation and what we see now impacts future generation or introducing new ideas that can lead to many changes in our community I feel like the youth voice just like in my perspective means we go through the same struggles that adults aren't going through uh youth voice means um just getting the opinion from different age groups different people who are seeing different things you voices impactful and um it's just important
077overall I'm a leader helping my friends I would definitely say that you do not have to hold a specific um Club position or St government position if you ran for a position and odds are kind of out of your favor I wouldn't get too discouraged because I learned that you can be a student Le without having one of those positions because as long as you develop your time to change your hard work will not go on student leadership what it looks like to me is um whenever there's a problem between a student and a student not only can an adult deal with this students can and like I do always I ask my friends for help whenever I have a problem or anything um you can always talk to your peers and not just ad
078dolls a leader to me means like somebody who takes charge and knows what they're doing to make the world a better place [Music] so what a wealth of knowledge our students have right we just have to ask them and we have to listen and then we have to follow up and so we also did there we go we also did some research around best practices and how this work can positively impact academics so some of the um research shows that being a leader does enhance academic performance both in the short and long run um having those experiences May sometimes take time and that is something that we hear a lot right so when you're in extracurricular activities or some of those leadership things that take place during school um there's sometimes the concern that it
079takes away from study time but the research does show that all Al though those activities May reduce some study time it improves the overall academic performance because it improves learning Consciousness and I think we saw some examples of that tonight so just continuing on if we are able to honor student voice in meaningful ways then we can get to a place where we can have an increase and Improvement and uh better focus on higher standards for all of our students we can also get to a place where we can build the systems where their opinions are shared collaboratively with teachers collaborative collaboratively with our administrators we can get to that space where we can have a higher potential for increased problem solving too which is what we want for all of our students I do
080want to point out the picture on there is also a student Le um event that was a Culture Night held on by May high school student so y'all can read this here but on the left side we just have all of the mechanisms that were used for Gathering some of the data throughout this whole process over a few months just a few months right and then on the right side you have um the student groups that were given um the the feedback from us so n9th grade through 12th grade so we did kind of pull all of the students but it was from all of the high school so ALC centy M John Marshall um and both students in special education and general education PR programs as well including our multilingual Learners and I wanted
081to pull some quotes from some of the focus group discussions um one was I became a leader in my club because a teacher pulled me in our morning meetings this is another one um our morning meetings help me feel like I belong because it's a judgment free zone and we can where we can say anything and finally another student said I wanted to be a leader when I was was a freshman but didn't know anyone now I'm a junior and I don't know how and so like I said we did see some of these in the activities section but these are some of our current examples of things that are amazing and taking place right here in RPS we have um different Affinity groups such as um our GSA groups um and also our prayer
082groups there's also um groups that talk about global Affairs where students get a chance to talk about things that are important to them anything to highlight also we do currently survey our students there are multiple schools where restorative circles are taking place some of those um are leaning towards our becoming student Le so that's exciting and then um also looking at those student panels that I mentioned before examples of leadership are things like the culture nights um the junior Equity team at Dakota put on a culture night it in a slide earlier um and looking at things like the SOS Group which provides resources for students or a tops group that's peer mentorship so really some of those things that students are asking to see they are involved in it but we're wanting to enhance
083access to those things and representation we also learned about our gaps in our areas of improvement throughout our schools and one of the big things was increasing our mentorship opportunities for more students not just the students who may know someone or who's taking that class and has that opportunity but all of our students throughout the district how do we connect them to mentors so that they can get to that place that they want to be as well um we definitely need more student L projects and initiatives again you heard many examples of that tonight imagine if we multiply that by 10 by 100 what our students will be capable of another big thing that really came through we need better feedback mechanisms we're really good about listening to students not so good about reporting back
084to them what we heard from them and then actually doing something about what they share with us that really stood out collaboration integration I think you talked about that earlier but not just using the students for their voice in our ideas but how do we build ideas together how do we come up with new something new because the adults can't think of everything but if we partner with our students maybe we can come up with something fresh that we didn't think of in the first place since the belonging was also there if we can increase that sense of belonging that our students may feel a little bit um braver to step into some of those extracurricular activities that we've seen um throughout the night tonight and so these are our recommendations that we are going
085to touch upon starting with developing a comprehensive student leadership plan so we want to be this is a plan within the plan we have our larger plan but this is being really intentional about how do we create a sustainable um student leadership process and so part of that is conducting at least three professional development sessions for youth that really helps to focus on those leadership skills and personal development so we would take some of the information where students are telling us what skills and abilities they would like to develop and then um provide professional development to help them grow those skills and we also wanted to um connect to the gaps that were addressed in the previous slide so that we really are making sure that we are answering answering the call to the gaps
086that were identified and so some of what that may look like is also bringing in external uh resources to Empower student leaders and again using that feedback and this is our group um our youth participatory action Resource Group research group so another part of that we'll be looking at how do we increase opportunities to uplift Stu St or youth voice and really finding ways to engage students who are who have historically been disengaged or disconnected um people that we are not hearing from we want to know learn learn more from students who our school system is working for and also from those who have some fantastic suggestions for us that we need to listen to and so we want to increase uh the number of Youth Le initiatives and projects within the next school year
087so that we're really looking at what's important to our students and this one really goes with the last one um as far as expanding access for leadership opportunities but the goal would be just to increase the leadership opportunities and roles that the students actually have within their high schools throughout this um next school year keep going with this one um one example of that would be to expand our access to training so like SAR leiz said when they say these are the skills that we want to have developed we need to be able to to help them actually develop those skills so that they can turn into into the next thing right now we don't have any way for developing our students into um whatever they tell us we have to ensure inclus inclusivity and
088diversity in our leadership roles to make sure that they reflect our student body not all our not all of our um leadership opportunities currently uh reflect all students represented in RPS and then because this is a culture change right we're looking at now we're really collaborating and how can we collaborate better with students and so we want to help prepare staff for this culture shift and this partnership with students and so part of that will be training our staff members in um at least two youth inclusive strategies to really help build upon on the skills that we have to support our youth and that looks at collaboration and integration and also sustainability so we will try it and then also figure out ways to keep that going this just speaks a little bit more to
089that um one of the strategies that we did look at that really exciting is um potentially doing some sort of student L conference where students are able to build those leadership skills and then um communicate that to staff so we can talk about needs and teach us how we can do better so looking at some uh potential strategies and Frameworks one of the um systems that we identified was the enoa henen student curriculum advisory committee and this was created as a way to have students be part of the curriculum review and selection process and so students are selected by staff or their self- selected and they're able to come and engage and review um and provide feedback about curriculum and programming and assessment um another piece is where students are able to take then their
090feedback from some of the things that they've seen in the curriculum and give that provide that feedback to their District so that's a really cool thing that they're doing there and that also aligned with what we were talking about about that collaboration we have talked about doing some curriculum work with students and getting that feedback but this is just a structure that maybe we can take bits and pieces from and so this just shows some of the structure of how theirs works and what schools are involved in that and so it's it's students from multiple high schools that are coming together to do this I think what sir L just shared as important because we are trying to think about ways to improve our student school board and how we can change and beef that
091up some so that was just one model that we were considering um could be a big Improvement in that area we also researched this youth truth organization and I think it shows a lot of Promise as you can see there it really has a a pathway for uplifting the voice of the students by giving the schools the tools to actually get the perspective of the students but then actually shown how to analyze that into something that's operational I think that's something that's actually missing in RPS and if they have the the mechanism to do that already then that's something that we should explore instead of trying to reinvent the will some of the subjects that come the subjects that come with with the youth truth survey are the ones listed on the left so looking
092at that engagement belonging academic challenge College and Career Readiness so we're looking at some of these things that we're already saying are important and that our district values additional topics that we can look into is adding student voice and Leadership which right now we aren't we don't have a method of fully getting that information back in a structured way also school safety and then looking at the emotional and mental health that our students have already uplifted that they would like to see improve I know you had a chance to kind of take a look at this we won't fully go through the phases of the process but really it's just an onboarding process of finding out what our district is wanting to learn more about how we want to get that information and we gather
093the feedback and while the feedback is coming there's ongoing support from the program um as we're getting responses there'll be the tracker saying hey here's a way to get you have this many responses here's a way so you can get some more or here are some additional supports that you may need during that time and after there's the piece about really looking at making meaning of the data and doing a debrief to um highlight things in their results and um help with that interpretation piece there's also sorry I wanted to also highlight that ongoing piece that's a little bit different from Panorama because one of things that we were thinking is what's different than what we already have well with youth truth um it really focuses on school climate um looking at that continuous Improvement
094and then also putting the data back into the hands of students which really aligns with what we're talking about with both student leadership and youth voice um so students do have the opportunity to do a workshop where they're able to look at the data and um engage in activities that will they leave the workshop with a action plan draft and recommendations that can be used by school leaders and potentially districts and school boards to really promote those uh strategic plans also this uses the um two Frameworks for the seal model the Cassell model and the racial Equity Institute groundwater Theory and so just some different um baselines for that make it a little bit different than the panor survey and focusing on classroom school and Community rather than just the individual student and as we're
095looking at belonging that's very important to look at students holistically as [Music] well so the impact we just wanted to highlight some places where um they are using this survey even as close as um Pine Island so we have some neighbors using the survey and um one of our quotes be our teachers have valued this information and have asked that we survey our students again this year so they can respond to the data just another quote we wanted to read out loud just to put this into the space but youth truth is a great tool that gives School administrators important insight into their schools performance so how do we actually know we're doing what we said we wanted to do so the reports and throughout the program can help us figure that out and also
096we now have the information and expertise to better understand our students catalyze changes and monitor improvements so really using that data as an ongoing piece of how we can improve in a tangible way that not only are we able to see but students are able to see it too then the last quote um comes from the drop off provinal person in Texas our district and students are better off because of the student feedback results we have used to inform campus and District level planning so we could actually use what our students are telling us to help us make plans at the district level that's different than what we've been doing before also now it's the money part everyone's favorite part except for jobs so if we look at um administering this survey just at our
097high schools like we said that's where we wanted to start so ALC centry John Marshall mayo and RPS online it's just about 1,700 per school for a total of about 82 $100 if we wanted to also add the family survey piece or a staff survey that would be another $600 per School the reason we broke it up like this is so you as the school board can direct us which pieces you're interested in and which pieces you aren't I'll keep going so the project management piece as you can see there is included in the price of the survey so that's where they're going to help generate the reports um and then help us learn how to read the report so that we can make more informed decisions they help us uh with the debriefing then
098the part that's actually pretty good is at the bottom where it says additional topics there if we wanted to dig into the mental health of our students we could do that for another $100 if we wanted to dig into um student voice and Leadership which is actually the purpose of this that's only another $100 that we can tack on to the initial survey price so if we did all of those things together we're looking at about $15,000 and one thing we did say we wanted to um improve the opportunities for professional development for our students if we did that uh the UT truth organization would actually come to town and help um uh train about 50 students for a price of $5,000 there's also a virtual training that's about $3,500 but again that's for about
09950 participants or so and also just to reiterate the the beauty of this is that you we take what we need we leave we don't um we have the opportunity to kind of build it into what we need and also potentially align it with other initiatives so for next steps you heard uh superintendent pel kind of alluded to this but we need to build a team together that's going to work on that implementation plan what is this going to look like uh moving forward we have to find a financial plan how are we going to pay for this how can we sustain it going forward if we decide that we like it then we have to form that comprehensive student leadership plan that we've been talking about all night to welcome you if you have
100any questions for for us director Garcia yes so I have been it's since we came back from the msba conference just just sort of been rattling around in my brain after sitting in a little Symposium of students saying that they are on their school board not a student school board but they are a non-voting member of their own school board and many of them as interesting as it sounded I think they sometimes feel like they get lost in the sauce right there's they don't maybe understand the rules of engaging in the process and they're not really sure like when they should be allowed to speak unless somebody sort of invites them to do so um and then some other kids are I think probably more just like me and they'll just sort of throw their
101voice in there um but unsure of their value the room always and I think people show that they appreciate the perspective but I was thinking how could we or do we as a district honor that voice because we do make every decision we make affects our students um and while I think um Dr Marvin does an excellent job bringing the report back about student Schoolboard it's not like we're hearing as we do with like public comments or in our emails students telling us explicitly their thoughts on the referendum or p turning into an early learning school and things like that and those are the sorts of things I would actually like to hear from them um and I'm wondering if this is an opportunity to develop whatever version RPS might use for that so even
102if we don't have a student on the school board might there be another mechanism or an improvement to student school board that would bring that information to us and have you thought about what that might look like I don't know if that's part of your plan but this feels like it's on that vein for me cuz I want to invite it more than we have it for sure I think you you word it great when you say that there are some students who don't who aren't necessarily ready to come and um be as vocal about that but they still have a voice and opinion and so when we look at building that student leadership plan um really looking at how do we build that with students right so we may not know how to build
103that structure where students are able to authentically get that message here but I think we have been operating in systems that we have put together even things like student Schoolboard like we have put it together we have structured it and so how do we then build something with students um so that they're not feeling like they're tokenized or like um we're just hearing what they're saying but not doing anything so I think that would fall in part of that student leadership plan and really working with students to create that yeah thank you I would just add that we're getting some of that with our superintendent as he attends the student school board meetings he's having great dialogue with our students about the things that they see as far as our district I also think it's
104it's a little bit bigger than that so if we can create a vehicle where they can have this dialogue with their Administration and their school now we have every school doing that now we're not we're not waiting on one student to come and tell the board what they're thinking but we're actually having those conversations with with all of our schools that that to me makes it more powerful than waiting for a student to come to us they're already going to be on the ground level doing the work so it's a both and yes we can get them coming to us but at the same time we need to empower them to learn how to have these conversations and work with their building administrator and the building teachers so that they can get accomplished what they
105want to get accomplished within their schools also director so I'm I'm not exactly sure where to start with this so it'll probably be a little bit more um incohesive than I usually am um I really appreciated the what you said about the intentionality of developing leadership and I was looking at the um mission statement on the back wall our mission is to inspire Challenge and Empower all students with the knowledge and skills required to reach their full potential to contribute to Future generations and to become involved members of a global community so that contribution to Future Generations is really critical and we have to have leaders to do that and this is this is what I see Happening Here is that we're not only focused on reading math science and whatever the other one was
106but how are we teaching them basically Civic engagement being involved in their Community being involved in the world um these are the students who are going to be making huge decisions um about many of us here for their future and I want to see those qualities that you're developing with your students in them to make those decisions rather than somebody who has become a leader just because there is a vacuum and they have kind of you know well I'm going to be the leader but it's not always working out as well as we might hope so um the respect the belonging all these things are so important and I guess I didn't really have a question here but I'm I'm really looking forward to your coming back and sharing more about how this is is
107going um I hope everybody else on the board is as excited about this as I am I think it is just tremendous that we are finally really getting into some of the real nitty grit gritty nitty-gritty of our mission statement that I just read from the back wall so thank you thank you so much director cook uh so I um I I I view this kind of in two different bu ET the the presentation that I heard there's developing student leadership for the purpose of developing student leaders and developing their leadership skills and then there was I I got I got a little bit lost with a lot of the um youth truth survey stuff which seemed a lot more related to harvesting or identifying the voice of students so that it can be used
108those ideas can be leveraged and ideally reported back but I I I love the ideas about mentorship I love the ideas about um um additional committees both to get some um useful inputs from our students and and harvest the potential in their voices but also as a mechanism to kind of have a farm team of some of the uh future student leaders the only way to learn leadership is you just got to start doing it and everybody that starts is bad when they start that that is that is part of it um and so I think you know creating some additional opportunities for students to rise up but I I would have just naively my assumptions would have been to start with more like entrepreneurial opportunities for students to start their own group to do
109their own thing and like providing the supports that enable that to happen um and maybe I'm missing something in the youth truth so I'm going to stop before I maybe I've I've like missed a total assumption but is there you mentioned that part of it was providing that feedback to to students are students involved in some material way in the youth truth survey data is it an example of a platform for students to develop leadership potential and not just another way for them to provide their inputs yes so I think you answered the the question within your explanation there so we are taking their uh feedback that were giving us and basically that's for the adults to show us this is what our students say is missing throughout our school district then the second piece
110of that is actually helping the students to develop those skills and lead some of those things that they just told us was missing within our schools so it's really a both end they are giving us the feedback but then at the same time we're going to develop them into being that entrepreneur interb that lawyer that we just talked about and all these other things that they're interested in so it's a both and and also that piece of leadership or of ownership and so we give we give surveys and students many times will offer their feedback and then not know what happens after that it just goes off into you know our information but they don't have it and so one of the pieces of this is really having students be involved in looking at the
111data and that way they're able to help us develop the goals and really analyze what are the needs what are the strengths what are some opportunities where um we can collaborate to move forward and that lends itself to the leadership piece of it too because it's built together got it thanks Dr brother uh couple things first of all um I appreciate um seeing as a this group charge um that within your presentation I I think it helps for me as a member of the board a better understand uh the value of and need for uh strengthen the capacity of students uh ultimately allowing them to express their perspectives and to lead change um that is so powerfully stated and I appreciate you including that also um having done the research and being able to identify
112the existence of current um I'll call them as a block Affinity groups um it's good that you have already acknowledged the existence of and perhaps are already mining if you will uh that uh uh uh student voice and Leadership uh capacity that those groups represent then finally just a question as it may relate to um a tool that is is currently in use uh will zel in any uh way be able to be used to potentially identify uh youth voice and or student leadership uh youth voice need and or student leadership capacity are there any questions designed to perhaps call that out or to um uh probe to see if there is U interest that even students themselves may not be aware of do you know Z currently has that capacity or are you envisioning
113that uh uh that Tool uh be used to perhaps acquire that as far as the youth voice of my sh zel can pull that out zel's job is to um match students with the career path that they may not have been thinking about or deepen deepen a career path that they are currently thinking about so as far as getting the youth voice out of Zell I don't think that's the right tool but I can look into that for you I think if I can say Dr Baro that I I agree with about the youth voice but the youth leadership piece I think is going to be a slam dunk because what zel will be doing in terms of the the personal career interest inventories the personal strength inventories kids often identify I want to lead
114um or there are tools in Z that actually identify kids who have the habits and orientations to lead but don't self-identify As Leaders so I do think it's going to be a powerful way for us to have a way to one of the quotes that sir Louise read which I loved it was sort of in there about you know tapping kids on the shoulder and saying hey you can lead like sometimes that's what a kid needs to know but we need to know to tap them on the shoulder and so I think that what zel will do uh not just in the area of leadership but in the area of many other aspects will allow us to proactively find the kids who want this opportunity who might have the skills and energies and passions but
115don't self-identify As Leaders so I think that that is uh I think that's a powerful piece of this um and as director cook just said com out of our strategic plan there really are two related but distinct parts of Youth Empowerment there's youth voice and then there's the youth leadership and I think we'll summarize the Synergy um we we had some kids tell us I don't want to lead anything but I want people to listen to me like and we other we had other kids say I want to lead stuff like I you know and so that was where we distilled into that those sort of two pieces that are related but distinct something else I'm thinking about uh director Barlo um zel just opened up a feature where we can have what we're calling
116wor work based learning where organizations within our community can post something on z um let's say Justin you have an internship available or there's a job opportunity available at excorporation or um maybe someone just wants to volunteer so as we're mapping out the career interest of our students we now have the ability to M to match them with someone in the community we do that that's going to start working on those leadership skills that you were just mentioning so the tool itself may not explicitly say this is for youth voice but I think like Dr pel said we're going to start pulling some of that out um in a way that wasn't intended Dr Marvin just very quickly thank you so much for the presentation and I think um that this is so appropriate is
117that it is one of the fundamental tenants of the Strategic plan because I see that this is the way our district is going we want every to know they can become a change agent they have something to offer um and like adults I think there are a lot of kids who think if I have a big voice I'm going to lead or I'm simply not capable of leading anything and so what this does is to sort of highlight the fact that we need to help teach kids and adults that leadership is more than just being at the head of the line or having the loudest voice that there problem solving that you have to engage you have to be able to work with other people and Inspire other people and I think it's one of
118the most important skills we can send our students out with and for that matter that we can help all adults learn I think it makes us better people when we feel that we can be responsible for ourselves and to help others at the same time and I think that's the kind of student we want to um send out of the school district and uh and I think that this can become a regular classroom thing too where teachers will be more inclined to have students determine and then lead their own projects that are meaningful to them so I see this being part of how we envision education in general U changing in this District deeper learning um I appreciate this work I think we could probably talk about this all night um I just had some
119thoughts based on what Dr Garcia was saying earlier about um involving students in potentially our work and thinking about the structures that this board has put in place things like the ABCD calendar that we have a structure like that that students could look at and if there is something that Sparks their interest we have a process now that they could start on that and then provide voice to us I think about even the next agenda item is the SRO contract we wanted for years to hear from students about that issue I know that there's been challenges about how to do that and how to present it and how to make sure that students are safe with that information but that's the problem I think the students could help us solve is that if they can
120figure out a way to overcome some of those concerns and barriers and you know grow with us so that we can do that in a way that's safe for them but still get that information and that data would be amazing and I think that's just an example of a structure you know that perhaps could be used um to implement some of this moving forward I also just really want to comment I love the fact that you're including staff development in this that I think that that's I I'm not sure that we can implement this without that staff development as well that we need that support for the students um so that everyone's on board moving this forward um to um give the students those skills that they want I I I love that concept of
121not only asking them what they want and what they want to learn and what they want to develop but providing that to them and you know providing feedback and and uh um helping with their growth in those areas that they're asking for and then that feedback loop to make sure that it happens I love that so one of the things I'm excited about in terms of developing these um skills to use their voice and empowering them to do so is I think sometimes when we think about high school students and wanting to have their voice in decision making we sometimes just think about their four years of high school or or what they can influence before they graduate but I think they're our best internal focus group to Look Backwards at their previous eight k
122through eight years especially as we're up uh revising curriculum and revising instruction and for those younger students they just experienced it most recently so if we can Empower them to use their voice to also help us reflect on how we can improve for the next group of students coming up um that might be our best source of information on you know the kind of real- time changes that we need to make but I recognize that we have to develop their skills in it we have to develop their confidence in it because I don't know how many of them have thought of saying you remember that thing I did in fifth grade maybe we could make that better for you know my my younger sibling or something like that so I'm really excited about all this
123work and I appreciate all the work that you all have put in so far to to to plan for this while simultaneously activating the youth voices that we have we're not just sitting putting a plan together and saying students wait until we got everything organized there's already we're seeing um the benefits of that so thank you right thanks you so much thank you can be contined all right board members at 7:50 we're moving on or do we need to take a break quick break take a break quick break all right we will re uh we J at 7:50 we'll be back at [Music] 8:00 e the board is back in session at 8:01 p.m. our next agenda item is a prep for action item 7.1 school resource officer update and consideration of contract renewal super
124attend pel thank you very much I am board members going to um do the honors of a brief presentation here in order to keep the presentation concise and at a clip and saving some time should board members want to have it with some of our colleagues um who really lead this work and so I want to ask uh Chris Langan who our director of school support and Joel blanck Sergeant Joel blanck from uh Rochester Police Department and Julie Clayman who coordinates our safety efforts to come on up so that um should board members want to either ask any questions of um these colleagues um uh or engage in a discussion that is very much something that we can do as you are all aware the contract with the Rochester Police Department for the services of
125six officers who serve in our schools is one that is an annual contract that renews unless either party takes action to change or terminate it and this has been a major subject of the board's work uh since I got to Rochester two and a half years ago as board members know we have looked at the research with the help of a doctoral student at the University of Minnesota we convened a task force uh that uh made recommendations on a new memorandum of understanding which subsequently with board leadership we integrated into a major revision of the contract we also looked um most recently at alternatives to school resource officers and some of the experiences in school districts that have made that transition this presentation tonight is in the prep for Action category as such we are
126not not asking for any voter action and as board members are aware um in a in essence you could take action by taking no action or you could choose to uh uh move forward in the different way in the contract one uh uh data point that I want to thank Dr Marvin for highlighting the version of the contract with ro City of Rochester that is posted in assembly in our board web platform has some dates that might uh cause close readers to under because it suggests that this is a contract for 2023 and the rationale for that is that in the previous years since that time the board did not take action to change the contract and so it remains in force because it rolled over think to Dr Marvin's perceptive Point um even if
127uh the board chooses to take no action on the substance of the contract I think it would make sense to update those dates so it's clearer that this is this would be in force should the board choose to uh continue the contract between July of 2024 and July of 2025 but it's the old dates because it rolled over so with that let me uh hit a few highlights here um in particular some very very important data that I want to credit the board for pushing us to work with uh sergeant blanck and Rochester Police Department to put together which is what happens to students who have an interaction with a school resource officer that is for formal enough to classify as an incident that's something that board members have been asking for since I arrived
128and I want to thank Sergeant bana in particular for helping us put that together with a level of accuracy that we have uh not been able to pull uh together in the previous two times I've done this um of course we have to maintain student confidentiality and in a couple cases uh given that the the systems involved here are large and complex there are a couple of students really a handful whose uh uh outcomes uh are not something that we were able to discern immediately through our data sets but you'll see we were able to pull together data on almost every student who had a formal interaction with a school resource officer this past year I want to start out uh and this is not in the PowerPoint by saying that we have received no
129complaints about the uh performance or behavior of any individual school resource officer from any parent student or staff member in Rochester Public Schools over the past year and we checked our formal records to be sure that I was not just saying that based on the fact that I usually hear all the complaints um but that was something that obviously is uh is a relevant data point as well so um board members know that as the board led the redesign of our contract they built in a series of expectations for uh school resource officer engagement in the life of our schools uh and in particular with kids and communities that uh whose experiences with law enforcement may not necessarily lead them to uh form those close connections and positive relationships with school resource officers so you
130can see there that the the goals for our SRO have been daily to be checking in with the administration and support teams to always be visible in hallways cafeteria um and then finding uh informal ways to connect with students staff parents caregivers on an ongoing basis somewhat more formally the goal has been weekly to be meeting with Equity specialist social workers counselors those people who are involved in those critical support uh roles in our schools and who often frankly are among the first to know when a student is struggling um to have SRO working with our student groups um and then also doing Ed educational uh presentations for our students I think the board has gotten to know officer alzola who could really take his show on the road in terms of his ability to
131uh engage students in uh presentations but it's not uh limited to him and our other uh resource officers are engaged in that as well monthly we uh have the goal of SRO being involved in safety preparedness and plans and review Protocols of course they're also involved in our safety uh drills and I was just uh chatting with sergeant blanck that the driver's ed work uh is a hugely positive but also hugely timec consuming uh uh piece of this kind of Engagement with our um with our students for the for the resource officers and then uh situations as needed bringing sro's involved in addressing safeties our SRO are focused on our middle schools and our high schools but they do get involved with elementary schools as needed they go in to speak in classrooms they've been
132involved in other presentations uh the threat assessment process that we conduct which is essentially a way of assessing a specific Potential Threat whether it's from inside or outside our schools uh intensively involves um sro's we've also had uh home visits and uh SRO beginning to be involved in our restorative practice work in our schools and then uh summer camp which uh I had a lot of fun uh meeting with students last year in the inaugural version of the summer camp that RPD ran for students who might be maybe one day interested in law enforcement or at minimum are getting a great leadership development experience in that um in in that summer camp experience um across all of those activities I'm uh very confident to report to the board that we have maintained the very clear
133line that we've uh drawn with board leadership between school discipline and events that potentially threaten the safety of students or staff or involve illegal activity SRO in Rochester Public Schools do not do school discipline full stop and we have really got that I think quite clear after a couple years of intensive work on it um I've seen videos in which a student is being disciplined including one who gets into physical altercations which are few and far between but do happen and you can see on a video that the school resource officer remains distant and removed from the entire activity and doesn't engage um unless and until there is actually a physical threat to safety and literally remains on the perimeter and comes in in a way that is very carefully structured and that our leadership
134teams have really worked hard with uh with our SRO should board members want more specific data on these activities either uh yet this year or um in future years we'd be glad to pursue that but I wanted to again in the interest of brevity give you an overview uh of where we have been so now we turn to really the deut of some data that I uh think needs to become an annual part of this process um whatever decisions the board is making on uh the the contract with Rochester City of Rochester and that's to look at what happens when a student has an engagement with a resource officer that is more than one of those informal conversations in the hall way or more than one of those classroom presentations it's such that uh RPD
135logs it in their records and we uh as appropriate log it in our records and one of the questions that the board members have asked is what's happening to these kids are these kids ending up getting ticketed are they ending up in detention centers are we actually putting them in what has Cally sometimes been called the school to prison Pipeline and so the data that you're going to see here has been uh pulled together and it talks about a a kind of a cascading set of outcomes a citation a ticket is a formal notice that's given for those minor infractions and it indicates the offense and potential consequences um and uh courts can oppose a fine uh refer to three Three Rivers restorative justice or uh diversion and if board members want to get uh
136deeper into that I'm sure Sergeant balani can talk about those options uh Three Rivers restorative justice is an organization uh here in Rochester that has become an indispensable partner both for Rochester Police Department and for us in taking a positive approach to students whose behavior um potentially or in actuality crosses the line of legality but for whom we do not want to get them engaged in the Juvenile Justice System diversion similarly actually entails redirecting students away from the traditional Court processes um and into uh community- based intervention or other re uh Rehabilitation and then finally no action means that law enforcement chose not to pursue action after there was an investigation of the incident now this is the craziest minuscule font ever and I apologize for for for board members and for the public there's
137a PDF of this that is not in that slide that you can get on our assembly website and um you can also if you squint look in at this at this slide um I want to again thank the team up here for working very hard to pull this D data together with um greater accuracy and precision than we have done in in previous years and we're going to get better and better at this going forward but to briefly just highlight three examples of how board members could read this chart just to take the first line obviously accidents or accidents or injury is defined as an unintentional Collision or mishap so if you go along you can see we had 17 reports in our high schools or last year of an accident that meets that criteria
138um one in middle school and zero in elementary and zero at our um uh Alternative Learning Center so we have a total of 18 cases and in that instance RPD reported they took no action on those 18 cases of accidents in so far as there was any involvement with Juvenile Justice System ticketing Three Rivers the police assisted as of course they often do with addressing the accident if you go down to one that is a little more comp assault which is uh four layer four rows down which is deci defined as a physical attack or and this can be very important the threat of harm that might not actually involve a physical altercation you can see there were six that were reported in our high schools six in our middle schools none in our elementaries
139uh one in the our Alternative Learning Center and so we have a total of 13 that were reported four no action was taken beyond that three were given a citation a ticket and then when we talk about those students who got a citation two of those remain open these are recent instances remain ongoing one is uh under Court jurisdiction um and then four we referred to Three River Three Rivers restorative justice for the kind of community engaged and rehabilitative um uh exercises that are the Hallmark of what they do with young people and two of those are actually in court at present I'll give one other example just to kind of help read the uh the the minuscule font and the chart since it may become Something board members want to talk about tonight or
140monitor on an ongoing basis parking violation we had four of those uh in our high schools no middle school or elementary school kids were parking in the wrong places um and so which is good um we so we had four incidents that were reported two had no action and two got tickets and so that is a good way there are a couple cases where we found where we say not licensed in MGA and that is as I'm sure Sergeant blon can describe a a data source that we were not immediately able to identify the specific outcomes for those students but as you can see that's relatively uh infrequent so board members if I had to take a step back from this I think it is fair to say that um the total number of students
141who are being involved in any incident with uh sro's given that we serve about 17,500 is low and that of those students who are involved in an incident that involves an SRO the vast majority are resulting in no action restorative justice or some type of action that does not take them into the juvenile justice system in a formal way which of course is entirely our and Rochester Police Department's uh intent so um as I said at the outset the school resource officer uh contract would automatically renew unless either party provides that written notice um as board members will recall in previous years where board members felt they needed more time to look at this issue we've requested and uh Rochester Police Department has agreed to an extension of that deadline we are bringing this to
142you tonight in prep for action and it's on the agenda uh for your next meeting for Action that would allow us to meet that timeline um uh but again the need for more time and consideration of this issue would be up to the board so with that uh Madam chair I will turn it back I Envision that uh from this point forward uh any discussion board members want to have will be much more with these three folks who live this work every day but I wanted to give that high level overview of what we've seen in the work of our school resource officers thus far this year board members any questions or comments Dr mvin I just want to say thank you for the U for the Glasser that you provided it it makes it
143much easier to understand what these incidents are exactly and so that you and we have the same understanding about what for instance does um project Lifesaver mean so thanks for that director mclin um actually a question for um Mr lingren would it as I listened to um Dr Marvin talk about that are these reflected then in our student handbook or is this something we want to maybe further incorporate or modify what's in our handbook to better match these so that students parents everyone are on the same page with these very helpful definitions these definitions would be more on the police side than what we would use um we'd have like um assaults and harassments and those things but we don't use the word escort as is when they're helping somebody or um missing person type
144of thing um but we could match it as close as we needed to okay there we go um but yeah we do have some some of these with within it um I think I'm answering that question but is it is that what you're looking at or you looking at the data more um I think it's more the definitions that are there cross references or similar definitions in our handbook that perhaps need to be updated so that we're on the same page sorry yes we do have some of those things in there as I was like wait I'm question do you feel like these definitions already match or are there some updates that need to be made I'm certainly there could be some within the updates of what of how the police use it to and
145recognizing that this list is probably longer than much longer but still relevant to this discussion but there might be some that would be helpful for the handbook um and then I also wanted to point out just one technical thing about the presentation that um that data slide when I'm looking at that on my iPad it cuts off at the parking violations um so if someone is wanting to look at the very nitty-gritty detail of that chart we may want to print it they may want to print it out um so that they get the full information and there also is a a PDF of just that data that's in the in assembly as well um because I know that that is a that might be where I looked very unreasonable slide we we'll work on
146the graphics thank you director Garcia mine was more of a like a comment slash question to you when you were saying that you had not received um feedback essentially or like negative feedback I recall sending you a screenshot of a message that I got on social media about the presentation can you just speak to how students and their families are notified when an officer is going to be doing a presentation in the classroom and what that content is about and how they are able to opt in or out of that process uh thank you Dr Garcia what I was referring to we haven't received a formal complaint um so when someone files formal complaint about one of those um the presentations that our sro's do um when it involves a subject that might be sensitive
147for Parental reasons we do ask our schools to let parents uh know and other caregivers so that they have an opportunity should they choose that applies across the curriculum of course not just with SRO um I will tell you I think um Dr Garcia that is a process that going into next year again not just regarding SRO presentations I think we need to revisit and tighten up and so I think uh it certainly is the expectation I think we can get better and better at that so that a uh a parent or caregiver might have the uh the appropriate lead time to decide that a presentation might not be something that they want their student to participate in um but we certainly do have that expectation and when I'm very confident that when a parent
148makes a request not to have their student attend a presentation that our schools comply as your question suggests the question is do they know um with sufficient advanced warning and so that's something that uh we've had recent reason to think about wanting to make sure we have good processes in place um and that we're not leaving it to you know a teacher counselor social worker who's got a zillion other things on their plate to proactively think okay how I've got a SRO coming in to do a presentation or I've got a com Community agency coming in how do I let parents know the subject of that early enough to make a decision sure so I would welcome the the chance to come back to you with that um uh with an update on how we
149can tighten that process director mman I was struggling earlier to read my own handwriting so I apologize um I think this is really really helpful I guess the one question I have of being someone on the board who has really looked at this issue previously is can we commit to using the same data analysis moving forward it seemed like that was one of the struggles prior years as we kept getting different data every year and if we know that this is going to be workable continuing with this so that we can compare year-over-year data well I I agree Dr M and that's critical I mean sergeant blonck if you want to comment on from the RPD side this is data you are all collecting and I think to your point it's really about making sure
150we have tight definitions and that we have both officers and our staff recording these incidents accurately and as closely as we can I don't see a reason why we couldn't commit to to provide the board with this same data every year do you no and we've collaboratively worked together on this and I think the last couple months here just sitting down having conversations on what you're looking for and what you need we can definitely provide that we take a little bit of time to put together but we will definitely do that I will say Sergeant blonic sends me every month um the updated data and then at the end of the year where we're at right now is where he had collaborated with records and the people he needed to to come up with the
151results that we have but we do get every month what the data looks like that's great to hear um and then I have one comment just on the contract do we want to talk about that now or go ahead okay um I appreciate there is nowhere near the level of angst and anxiety about talking about this contract this time around than it has been previously um I did have one comment that I actually previewed with Sergeant blanck over the break is that there is a provision in the contract for when they hire a new officer that someone from the district is on the hiring panel and I know superintendent pel I think I mentioned this to you previously I would really advocate for a school board member to be on that panel as well we'll
152need some advanced notice um but I I think that that's one thing that um a board member can attend observe see the candidates understand what the process is for selecting candidates and then report back to the board um what I told um Sergeant bonck in the back during the break is that the big Focus for me is to make sure that we're having officers in our school who are confident and comfortable working with our students um that I think that firsthand experience in an interview process would help ensure um at least for me as a board member that we're picking the right people to play that very important role in our schools if if I can ask uh Dr mcin would you would you like us to include that as a proposed change in the
153contract meaning specifically board members there or just to pursue that with RPD through our leadership channels because I think it's a very from my perspective and I am not the police department uh a very very doable uh thing we don't know if we'll have any transitions of SRO but you know they tend to have kids and take jobs and life happens so um we could pursue it through the contract or we could just take that as I think a board uh direction that will try and work out collaboratively is there I think it could be um collaboratively I actually was surprised that that wasn't in the contract already it identifies uh District Personnel um that I would encourage us to think about that broadly and include the school board in that in that definition all
154right thank you I don't think it necessarily needs to be modified in the contract now if we want to in the future that could be a future consideration yeah I I can commit to take that up with RPD leadership for sure and report back on how we think that would happen if I understand that right now it wouldn't involve the change in the contract but should we should we find over the next year that that is not a process that we can make happen we could the board could Rec consider in future years actually putting it in the contract and I guess I look at it that if it's it's School Personnel I think that's our choice to decide who you know we send one person do we send more than one I think we
155get to have some ownership of what that is and what the expectation is right thank you director Garcia I would say to pick up I guess or maybe piggyback on that not necessarily specific to the contract but like when we're talking about no action being taken because we're diverting some other way having those processes laid out somewhere else because I think the thing that often is missing in these um presentations like I do appreciate the The Adjustment and data and like making it clearer but what are the safeguards that we also are putting in place like the administration and the school board to ensure that if this is going to happen it's in the way that we want it to occur so when we have things like we're asking a school board or some other
156Personnel member to be a part of the board like what does that process look like when we're choosing to divert what are the roles of each agency in that and how you know what does that look like sort of thing so that we can show like I mean to me it's a significant and some of the numbers like if you have something that's you know there were 38 incidents and 26 of them resulted in no action to me that means we did nothing when I get that that means we actually did something else um rather than getting the kid in trouble and putting them in the criminal justice system like because then we then would become data for all of the um or maybe like a response to if SRO you know if the studies
157now show that SRO in schools increase the likelihood that students would um you know increase their access to the school to confinement pipeline if this is showing like we're doing something different here how do we articulate that and bring it out in the data to justify their existence in our schools yeah I I think it's an excellent point it's a little bit similar to what uh Mr ruffen was making about the youth truth survey like you can have the data but do you articulate your process for acting on the data and I think this is a this has been a Quantum Leap for us this year with the data and I think you're right we ought to have some flowcharts we ought to have some definitions that describe meta yeah like a meta analysis of
158like these are all of the things that were asked for basically since 2020 and this is what we did or didn't do and why I mean it's almost like kind of like our Apec letter like we're responding to the thing that they're telling us we're not doing and like how are we doing that in the district I think would be helpful so not so much comment to them but us you know on the way that we do that Work Director parlo um I believe two quick things um this current legislative session um Sr were discussed quite extensively uh were there any decision ISS made um that affected or impacted um what RPD SRO do um I'm thinking of the uh training uh requirement uh that I think that was passed I might be mistaken at
159least considered I think it's still yeah I think it's still in the house 100 do you envision that potentially having any direct impact yeah it's it's interesting you bring that up so we plan in August um Homeland Security through safe schools are going to be coming down and we're networking with them and actually we're going to put on a school resource officer training to kind of mitigate some of those questions that you're thinking or talking about there and we will address those but yeah we we strive on making sure that all the sros have all the proper training that they need and actually we go above and beyond there's actually two of them right now that have the Advanced Training um but we are going to continue to network with our partners and host training
160and so forth because we like to be the leader in that so and then um oh uh my goodness I'll move to the next thing uh so I noticed and and this is clearly to allow us um to consider the current um uh contractual arrangement we have with RPD um the separation between District discipline data uh they used to be kind of together or we would well these were referred to RPD and and and this is a response for I think what we've asked well what happened what came of that so will we still have if you will discipline data presented okay uh you will direct B we'll have a whole Deep dive into it this summer we intentionally decoupled it in so far as um discipline data is separate from engage I will tell
161you that in putting this together everything that is cataloged here in RPD data is in our data as um either something that was an investigation or that there was some action and it would code that the SRO was involved but we haven't brought the discipline data to you tonight with the logic of it being separate from the sro's but we are our data systems are talking to each other better than uh they have previous ly for sure I think and I was probably unclear I meant more so uh referrals uh to RPD uh and uh so thank you for that and I'm still trying to figure out that last something just a reminder not every one of these is a referral that we have given okay so an example is that the animal whatever um
162we that doesn't go into our discipline referral there's not an animal that's tr get referral for us or whatever so it's not every one of these discipline for real but ours are inside of that yes is that kind of what you were going with with that question too uh yes I mean given the time yes good enough well and I I think it is an important point that a few people have made um because a number of these categories do appear in our student handbook as level two offenses so just because there may not have been an action by um a diversion or a citation doesn't mean that through our student handbook procedures we didn't take action on that behavior and that I think is what we're going to see when we see the discipline
163data will there be a way to remind us of the of the data that we're going to get in the discipline data some sort of tracker of total number of referrals in this category these were also cross referenced as an SRO um encounter referral contact let me commit to take a look at that okay it's not as simplistic simple as it might seem given that once a student is actually in this process in many cases and pulling this together we didn't know who this kid was that was getting restored to plac to Three Rivers or cited or whatever we don't get the individual Billy got this consequence in the justice system but we got it in the aggregate so they didn't tell us the name but we got it in the aggregate here so we
164would need to build a marry the two um because we do know who all the kids are in our discipline system and we know who all these kids are who had an interaction with an SRO but it's the consequences that's the Breakthrough with this data that we're beginning to see now so I I hear what you're asking for I don't immediately see why we couldn't do that but I don't want to commit to do it if it proves to be a little more uh complex than I'm thinking it would be okay but isn't that the tension of this I think when you're asking about like us decoupling discipline data and what is illegal activity and actionable by law enforcement that's essentially what we're looking for like we hope that SRO do such a good job
165in our schools that they're working themselves out of a job like they've managed crime in the area that they don't need to be there anymore right and so when does it like when do our data numbers hit so low that we don't need that now we're focused simply on disciplinary issues that are not necessarily illegal but things that kids are doing that are disruptive to the learning environment right and so it it's difficult but I feel like that's kind of the drain we've been circling for four years almost now like how do we how do we articulate that and and who is responsible I mean we're all responsible like who is responsible in each of those moments and when do we need to shift roles like when do we overlap and when when is it
166there is versus our responsibility to to follow up on whatever the consequences or the outcome of that I I absolutely hear what you're asking for this was harder than I anticipated it would be and so I don't want to overpromise but I told you don't have to do it in the same format yeah bigger fa yeah but no but I totally understand what you're both asking for and we will take this as we I think we're in June for the discipline data or July so we will absolutely um we will find the the most accurate ways we can to connect the dots between these data and our discipline data um when we when we bring that to you I I just wanted to uh quickly add my voice to that of others that I think
167that this format for reporting the information is a helpful feedback mechanism for the board so um I would encourage um the collab operation that was involved in pulling that information together to continue um and also from my perspective the uh um the information that's presented is helpful not because I have an interest in kids avoiding accountability I think that that is how you honor um a a culture of high achievement and high standards um is by providing that accountability I think we do that and we do that um very well and very conscientiously um in ways that avoid legal justice outcomes that do more harm than good in terms of bringing about the full potential of each one of our students and keeping in mind the adults that they're going to grow into um and
168so I I I I think that this is a really helpful format for us um I also really value the role that our sro's play in incident response and threat assessment um and uh I guess the my last observation is I think that this contract might be the only one that we've looked at this year with only a 2% cost escalator um so that's kind of nice don't anything else board members I just wanted to add um because I don't think I articulated it very well earlier I love the fact that the discipline data and the the SRO data is separate that I think that that's been a major goal since we started looking at this issue and having those very clearly separated out in our data and in our thinking and in our implementation
169is a primary goal of why we work so hard on this all right thank you thank you all thank you okay moving on to our next prep for action item which is the Schoolboard response to APAC um the board is scheduled to take action on this agenda item at the April 23rd meeting superintendent pick up thank you chair Nathan and board members uh our executive director of equity and engagement uh will ruffen is uh coming up um the purpose of this session um uh tonight is simply to to find out if there are um themes points issues in the draft uh response to our American uh Indian parent ad advisory committee that board members would like us to work on between now and when you would be voting on this response in your next meeting
170I will say that the study session the discussion that we had um and your last meeting was invaluable to us I want to thank will and also of course Amilia Cordell um and Tucker Quito and our American Indian liaison for putting together the draft that you have um and so uh Madam chair we really stand ready to take any board feedback or suggestions into a Vision that we will prepare for your consideration at your next meeting board members any comments edits markups dror Garcia um I just had one I think the letter uh thank you for this um generally reflects my sentiment and what I heard in our study session the one sentence and maybe this is just personal preference so feel free to provide your response is that it says we firmly believe that
171RPS and APAC can embark on this journey of healing by maintaining close collaborations with members of APAC to guide our efforts the word healing feels a little bit like white savior to me and so maybe there's another way that we can phrase Our intention that we firmly believe that we can collaborate or work in the space together and maintain those collaborations without suggesting that like we're coming in and doing the work um but I would be also interested to he like and maybe we don't there's not time for this but like apex's response to that because obviously we're saying that the two of us together and perhaps this is a word that they would want to use for this um but just on first read that felt a little bit like kind of weird to
172me and that's really my only sort of like editorial comment we'd be glad to take a look at that term and we can talk also with tuer on Amilia but I I said will and I agreed they did not need to be here uh tonight just to get this we'll pass on that feedback and have a dialogue with them I appreciate that any other comments board members okay you thank you thanks for all your work for listening good job Mr Ren all right our next is an action item the RPS online name change this is an action item but before we talk about a resolution I understand and there is a presentation and a reveal there there is a presentation and a reveal and I'm looking to make sure that I have B Brandon mcrai
173our uh wonderful RPS online uh principal is coming up um a as board members we'll recall one of the first recommendations I made to this board was to create the secondary program at RPS online very shortly uh after I got to Rochester and um Brandon has picked up that mantle with the amazing team at RPS online and really nurtured and grown a very Innovative program especially at the Middle High School level which didn't exist at all but we've continued to offer services to our younger Learners a as I have been more and more excited about what we're offering in Rochester I started to get this feeling in the back of my head that does RPS online even mean anything to anybody outside Rochester or maybe even in Rochester and if we've got a good I
174hate to use this terminology but product we ought to Market it um and so that prompted a discussion with Brandon and then he and his school Community have taken it and run with it and that brings us to tonight it does so thank you for uh inviting me tonight to to share this information with you um do we have the oh well look at that right I think the last time I was here I said you would think that the principal of the online school would understand history repeats it so so I'm happy to be here tonight to share with you um a little bit about the the why that Dr pel shared um our process and uh the group of um stakeholders that were engaged in in this decision and a little bit of
175the feedback that we got from our stakeholders on the name that we are bringing to you tonight and then the reveal of that recommendations so um just to repeat a little bit of what Dr pel said we are are looking to engage in a more comprehensive and Statewide marketing effort to raise awareness of our learning environment and um to increase our enrollment in in this K12 learning community and uh again while RPS online uh has a minimum level of meaning in our geographic area it just simply does not carry the same weight or meaning Statewide for instance if you are in the Twin Cities RPS could be Richfield Public Schools Robinsdale Public Schools um probably six or seven other rpss and you know finishing our third year um as a comprehensive online learning community we
176know better now about who we are and and what we aim to provide to our to our students and families um and so um we believe that that process of achieving our goal of becoming the best online learning community in the state begins with a new name and I do want to point out that we are going to maintain the Chargers um mascot name and logo we put too much time and effort into coming up with that last year um to to change that so timeline of our process and I promise I'm I'm G to make this quicker than it may seem but um as Dr pel said this started with a conversation in December with um between the two of us and and director Peterson and then I took back to our site uh
177continuous Improvement team a proposed timeline and process for um for this decision in January we convened an eight-person steering committee and I'll share with you the members of that on the next slide and we established a preliminary list of school names and descriptors so I want to be clear on that school name would be like um John Marshall descriptor would be high school right um so we came up with those separately proposed school names proposed descriptors during the month of February we gathered stakeholder feedback um on those preliminary school names and descriptors both ranking and narrative from students staff and families that are aligned with RPS online and then in March that steering committee came back together and reached consensus on a final school name recommendation and here's just a quick overview of who served
178on that steering committee I thought it was appropriate listening to uh will ruffen and and Sarah lise's presentation um two of our most active members on our steering committee were our two students um Lily and Joseph who are on our our student council and I do want to give a shout out to Christine who is uh the lone member of our steering committee who who stuck it out tonight and uh and came to be a part of the presentation so we had staff parents students and then a member of our Communications team who helped us na navigate this um before we get to the big reveal I just want to share with you some of the narrative feedback that we got on this name that we're bringing to you tonight so um somebody liked the
179idea of using MN in the name so this is a little bit of the tease um another another stakeholder felt this really Encompass both the format and location but they also felt it was trendy um liked the idea of the name gives a clear representation of what the school is is I preferred this one the most it's state Pacific specific kind of sounds like you're sinking or bringing the students around the state together ties in with every aspect of our school the best option by far it's concise and has Clarity the sync aspect also underscores inclusion and cohesion I was really impressed with how much our stakeholders read into the names and gave us feedback that even we as a steering committee had not um had not really thought of our disc discussed best option
180is caty rolls off the tongue easily and comes with purpose and meeting I love it it's a more clear explanation of what the school is synchronous First Learning so without further Ado we're thrilled to bring before you our unanimous recommendation for our new school name which is men sync online brought to you by Rochester Public Schools any of you that are fans of '90s boy the millennial and me laughed when I saw that so happy to answer any questions that you might have sorry I won't do it had that One queued out you had that yeah that ready um board members any discussion before I read the resolution all right be it resolved that the school board of Independent School School District 535 approves the name change from RPS online to msync online is there
181a motion to approve so moved second it has been moved and seconded any additional discussion all those in favor say I I opposed the resolution has been approved congratulations thank you very much congratulations I I would just add Madam chair and thank you again for this work I mean this is fun but this is this stuff's really important I mean I've talked to people who have said uh there's no doubt Google would not be Google had they not found the name Google which was This brilliant like you know thing and I mean I think uh when when I first heard this of course I did think of in sync and whatever but actually I that's not bad and like I think that um this is and we have to support you in the larger Outreach
182and marketing as in fact we need to do a better job with all of our schools and helping them um really uh convey what makes them unique and you have a unique unque opportunity because you can be anywhere and be an and not an RPS online A Min sync online and and I think the synchronous first focus is really one that we have to continue to highlight because there are so many versions of What online learning looks like and sometimes it is a recorded teacher who recorded it three months ago and there is no human interaction but the model that you've developed the the human connection through the virtual space has been your priority and I think that's what we've heard from a lot of our students and our families that that's the piece that
183they value um so much from what you've put together so and we continue to hear it um from our any any student or parent that fills out our intake form they're excited about that synchronous option Dr Cook so the the trademark attorney and me can't help but um just um elaborate briefly the association with the unique capabilities of the Min sync um online learning opportunity is is helpful because of the distinctive brand but it's a brand is only ever as good as the product that it is associated with and that it is meant to um uh draw associations with in the people that you're trying to communicate with um so it's a it's a good brand it's distinctive um I hope actually that it is not something that creates Illusions to uh pop stars but
184um lean into the the synchronous offering and how that's a distinctive feature of our um unique capabilities in Rochester I think it's great and it's and the reason it's great is because of the unique learning um opportunities that we have in RPS um that you've done such a great job of of leading and creating that Community around so love it thanks so if I if I can just respond to that our steering committee did have conversations specifically about in down the road when someone searches for online schools in Minnesota that's why they wanted to have the MN in there um and then the synchronous and writing a really good Google profile so that when men's sync online comes up it speaks to exactly what you're you're talking about where it shares the unique features and
185and supports and opportunities that that our school provides to students across the state Dr mman um kind of a practical question but also personal to me because I have to give the update after the meeting is it okay to talk about this in the update ready to roll out what's the time frame uh as far as I'm concerned yes um our staff knows theyve they were kind of given a little bit of a gag order until tonight um just because we we wanted to um keep it but I believe there's a a press release that that will go out um in the morning I worked with Michael on that today so yeah as as far as I'm concerned Dr has any objections certainly I'm sure there's five reporters here because of this go every one
186of these here for Minn online they couldn't wait yeah I just think we got a big charge out of this so thank you and given that board members thank you and congrat congratulations thank [Applause] you so our next agenda item is also an action item the rethinking funding guiding principles uh the board discussed this recommendation at the March 19th meeting I'll read the resolution ask for a motion and second and if received we can open the floor for discussion we have resolved the school board of Independent School District 535 does hereby approve the rethinking funding guiding principles as outlined in the background of this agenda item move approval second it's been moved and seconded any discussion you have any additional information no I just want to thank the board there was a significant revision of
187this from the first draft to this one it's clearer as a result of in particular the division of it into three core components of the funding strategy and then descriptors of how we want the system to work so it's actually uh I think a a more userfriendly set of principles that we will be using over the next 6 months uh well somewhat more than six months to bring you a recommendation by December hearing no other discussions all those in favor of the resolution say I I opposed the resolution has been approved the next item is Pinewood conversion to An Early Learning school this is also an action item that was discussed at the March 19th meeting I will read the resolution ask for a motion and second and if received will open the floor for
188discussion be it resolved that the school board of Independent School District 535 does hereby approve relocation of Mighty Oaks learning early learning school to Pinewood Elementary School and be it further resolved that the school board of Independent School District 535 does hereby approve a maximum construction budget of up to 2.1 million to be funded by approximately 1.4 million of operating Capital reserves 0.5 million of general fund and .2 million of Community Education fund of approval second it has been moved and seconded any questions or discussion hearing none all those in favor say I I opposed the resolution has been approved our next agenda item is 8.1 our annual Board calendar draft updated the current version is available in the agenda for reference for our future uh Schoolboard meetings are there any agenda items board members
189would like to raise for consideration for a future meeting agenda Direct Dr berlo uh yes uh out of consideration of policy 208 development adoption and Implement implementation of policies I like to have um the RPS administrative guideline for supporting transgender and gender expansive students move to um policy uh if I may briefly comment within that guideline the superintendent did indicate that uh the guideline was only in effect up until the time the board developed the policy and also referen that that would probably occurred during the 23 24 school year of which we are uh rapidly moving towards an end so okay um I can give you an update on that um we have been in contact with msba regarding um that guideline which is originally based on msba model guidelines and because of um changes
190in the Minnesota Legislature that happened last session and this session as well as waiting for some Title 9 uh updates from the federal government they are going to be updating the model guidance on which our guidance is based so we were waiting to bring that back to the policy committee for consideration as a procedure um it would it would be amended to one of our current policy as a procedure until we got those updates from msba okay so the the question is if we if we take it to the policy Committee in its current format we could take it to the policy committee policy committee could recommend it to the board but it's most likely there will be significant revisions coming from msba in the next few months that we would then have to update
191again so the question is how quickly if at all we' take action well um if I may Madam chair um I don't think we necessarily run a file of an administrative guideline uh I think Dr pel and I don't want to speak for you but you had uh I won't say purposely but within the guideline you reference that the board would uh and and that would occur during this current school year uh does that then suggest if uh the model policy isn't released within this current school year will you then reissue the guideline or is it only in effect I I guess I wonder how does that affect the guideline if it was tied to language that was specific to policy development within the current school year uh thank you Dr R the guidelines uh
192as chair Nathan said were not only based largely though not entirely on on school boards Association they also were based on extensive input from our legal council and they adhere very closely to established legal precedent that said the legal environment around some of these issues is fluid and changing so when the initial guideline was written we had anticipated that uh in particular some upcoming Federal guidance on title line and revised um State Statute would have been finished by now and so I was never entirely sure what the policy committee would choose to recommend to the board but always did believe we should take it up and that's always been the intent the lot the The Hope was to take it up as chair Nathan said when we have the most recent um updated guidance from
193our School Board Association and then uh as I mentioned we also got guidance from our legal councel and their interpretation of current relevant uh laws we certainly could refer it in advance of that guidance for the policy committee to engage in that discussion I would have some concern about making recommendation to the board if we thought that there was likely to be significant uh shift in the guidance that we're adhering to I also know that Rochester uh school board can and should do what you think is best for Rochester students and so should you want to put a process into motion it might mean uh an additional revision once we have uh additional insight um I think that the way the administrative guidance is written is quite intentionally administrative guidance it's neither procedure nor policy
194because when I issued that I give administrative guidance to our administrators uh about a lot of things from testing to um discipline to school resource officers and in this instance the administrative guidance seemed important and I think it has been largely very constructively received um but as you know Dr Baro I've always thought that ultimately this is something that the school board should take up at such time as we have the best understanding of the legal requirements one of the largest I think among some folks who have not understood the guidance I issued one of the largest sources of misunderstanding and frankly which I was quite surprised to learn about as I engaged in a pretty intensive study is that this is established law we are not freelancing um we are dealing with established law
195that has been uh well supported in litigation um and that we are of course obliged to adhere to there are of course other areas in which school boards uh can make decisions within the parameters of law so that was the logic of waiting until updated M msba guidance uh and updated uh advice in particular on some tital L issues from our attorneys but we'd be pleased to support the board policy Committee in looking at this at whatever time frame uh you decided was advisable and it would be that's a long-winded way of finally getting and until that happens the the guidance is in force so I can promise from a policy committee standpoint because we are starting to look at scheduling the rest of our meetings for the year um to schedule the meeting and
196we'll put it on the agenda and at that time we'll know what our current status is with receiving more information from msba um what the title 9 information is it's coming from the feds and um we could have a conversation in policy committee with the superintendent of how the guidance might convert to procedure because as the superintendent said the way it's written doesn't necessarily follow our structure for procedures so we could always get it into place in a structure that would be ready to either bring to the board or then decide to wait for further updates thank you thank you any other feedback on that all right thank you um I actually do have a little bit of feedback um would you envision that it it seemed to strike me that if we could get
197this accomplished before the beginning of the next school year um to have it in place for a new school year starting I think that would be an ideal time frame if we can meet that time frame recognizing we have to wait for some others but could we at least get the procedure in place prior to that time frame I think that's mba's hope as well that they'll that they'll be able to have that that information on that timeline and then us being able to incorporate and vote prior to the school year awesome thank you all right our next item is other business board questions and responses um any questions submitted by board members on tonight's meeting agenda items are available in this agenda item we have three upcoming board meetings uh two upcoming board meetings
198in April April 16th is a study session and April 23rd is a regular meeting both begin at 5:30 p.m. and hearing no other uh business this meeting is adjourned at 9:02 [Music] p.m.