Rockford Area Schools - School Board Meeting - February 19, 2025

001from college it is 6:30 on February 19th in the Rockford area school district wro I'd like to call the business meeting of the Rockford are schools to order and we'd like to start with the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you uh Madam clerk will you please call the role Beth here K here Eric Gordon here Jessica Johnson here Chris Morgan here Jamie hilr here everybody's present excellent thank you very much so I'd like to call attention to the approval of the agenda items the agenda that was printed or provided to you previously had been amended a little bit to allow some of our guests and

002visitors to move up um in there so you will see uh APAC and our budget review has moved up from number eight to number six and things move down that way I also want to call to attention that we will be pulling number item number 613 R from the agenda for um policy review just making note of those changes to what was published previously uh Dr R Hoover everything else in the agenda is in good order it is thank you very much so I'd like to a motion for for the approval of tonight's agenda I'll make that motion thank you Miss Johnson there's a first can I have a second I'll second thank you Mr shadine there's a first and a second any further discussion seeing none all those in favor signify by I I

003post tonight's agenda does car unanimously item number three public comments seeing if there are there are no public comments public comments are now closed moving on to item number four consent agenda consent agenda has been provided to you for review um any discussion or question on consent agenda seeing none I'd appreciate a motion for tonight's consent agenda I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda thank you Miss prasa there's a first can I have a second second thank you Mr Morgan there has been a first and second any discussion seeing none all those in favor of the consent please signify by I I post consent agenda carries unanimously uh item number five we will move on to the superintendent report thank you chairy um the last month has been a very busy one as

004we've been weathering some bone chilling coal and working hard and accomplishing many tasks uh here we are being in the middle of February our work has shifted to include not only tasks related to this school year but preparations for the summer and also for the 25 26 school year uh recently been working on uh budget assumptions and enrollments which which in turn will drive our staffing process our consultant CFO Bridget Peterson shared some of these items at our work session today in detail she'll also be providing a more high level account to the board and public a little later on in this meeting I'm also happy to share that um RMS CS principal Mr Paul warzeka is here this evening to share about our middle school but before we get to Paul I would like

005to share some of the great news that has occurring at both Rockford high school and Reams starting with our elementary school um those kids are participating in the kids heart challenge the kickoff was January 29th that recently ended on Valentine's Day February 14th third grade students also spread holiday cheer throughout Reams on Valentine's Day with their annual Valentine's Day singing by the way this included a virtual rendition to our esteemed principal special ed coordinator and myself and it was awesome to have those kids sing so it was wonderful nice surprise students and staff are also celebrating during I love to read month this month uh several fun events that highlighted and promote reading uh Reams also hosted 20 students from Champlin Park High School on February 12th uh they job shadow teachers for a day

006um as members of their future Educators club uh principal nyus and counselors Katie Reynolds and Allison letigo spent the week of February 10th in classrooms sharing a lesson on kindness uh Reams is preparing for Kindergarten Roundup March the 6th to welcome the newest Learners to Reams next fall rehearsals have also started for the all school song which will be recorded Ed in March the teachers continue to participate in leading with literacy lessons monthly and Reams teachers participated in data reviews with Rachel yakish and Kathy Matson at the end of January billt continues to collaborate and Shore up systems and processes that'll make re more cohesive uh with the area of academics and ream is also making plans to visit schools uh upcoming as they review different literacy curriculum uh teachers have also been engaging in

007the second round of my Sabers inventory and they will continue that work through the first week of March moving on to the high school um the high school students many of them took their midyear fast in reading and math the result results will be used to better inform and structural improvements and tier 2 intervention needs after a three-year Hiatus uh RS teachers Mrs Ellinger and Mrs shil brought back the one act play our students represented our community well at the section competition learned a lot and very much enjoyed their experience our current 90-day focus of the high school um is on intentional reset as they begin work the second semester targeting uh methods uh which will support all the students uh currently reading articles engaging in dialogue regarding best practices and beginning to sculpt individual

008intervention plans for students this will lay the foundation for the last 90-day Focus def finding and in insisting on rigor and they feel strongly that they must first build student support in order to increase that rigor our Avid Regional program manager paid an annual visit to the high school uh she remarked on how the Avid elective teachers making great connections with students exceptional helping them organize their work and gave some suggests how to continue and grow the program schoolwide 12th grade students officially committed to play uh College athletics on national Signing Day February 5th and this was a really cool event and he happens to be here tonight but I'm happy to share this U Mr Bernard was surprised um with an award he received the Patriotic employer award through the Department of Defense and

009the employer support and guard and Reserve program in recognition uh for supporting active duty military members in fulfilling their obligations and regularly welcoming military recruiters to our school and since we have Mr Bernard here I want to just say thank you at the district level the last few weeks of January and the first part of February have been very busy uh the board level I'm thankful to this dedicated board for creating time for many things including um what was an outstanding Schoolboard retreat in addition to the retreat members of the board have also met and accomplished a lot of work in committee recently including Finance facilities and policy work all occurring in the month of February and while not an official committee uh Vice chair Johnson and clerk hilstrom were kind enough to participate in

010the work of our district calendar committee each of these committees engaged in important work and the recommendations from all of these committees CH the the course both tonight and into the future for our school district operationally continuing the work of our Communications committee um mailers will be going out this week postcards to Residents seeking feedback related to our unsuccessful capital projects technology Levy that occurred last November the postcard provide access uh to an anonymous survey that residents are asked to complete the data in the survey will be shared with the board at our March business meeting and used to inform future decisions related to topics of Health Safety and Security instructional technology and our technology infrastructure we're hopeful that by sharing this out to all households will receive a high response rate as the postcards

011are equiped both a QR code and a website link to navigate residents to the survey that survey by the way you've probably already seen it it's out on social media and on our website we've already gotten almost 90 respondents to that survey I also like to closely monitor things happening in St Paul as the full legisl later minus one house seat that's going to be filled in a special election in mid-march is now running as close to normal as they as they act I guess um items to note in Rockford continue to be Equalization Aid compensatory funding and the per pupil formula the February budget forecast which is used as a financial barometer for the legislature is anticipated to released late this year in fact March 6th is the target date they wants to align

012it with Kindergarten Roundup estimate for the formula uh which for the first time will include enfor inflationary index calculation somewhere in the 2.4 to 2.75 range um while this is better than zero or even 1% our general rollup costs are usually 4 half to 5% annually in addition to the governor's uh proposal he also proposing the elimination of qm after the 26 27 school year which if signed into law will have a significant impact on our Internal Revenue is related to teacher development and compensation we're fighting that one way I also wanted to share that um I've been asked to represent or to present the impact of an action related to the teachers Minnesota teachers retirement system at a meeting of superintendent this Friday more to come on this topic but while reforming the pension

013system is incredibly expensive calculations show it's even more expensive uh to the school district um substantially higher as our teach teaching Workforce will become more experienced and head towards the bottom and bottom right hands of our salary schedule um I mentioned the weather a few moments ago and as you're aware we now utilize the second of our two designated uh non-instructional days for this school year if another inclement weather day does occur this school year we will be implementing our e-learning plan as detailed under the resource tab on our school website we are hopeful that our school will continue uninterrupted for the remainder of the year but with the month of March still ahead of us we really never know no I want to thank U members of leadership team as well as the EMR

014leadership for a conversation recently that we clarified all of those components around e-learning and we're feeling very good and confident as we moveed forward instructionally I'm proud to share that rock various schools completed and submitted a 2-year adsis application mde prior to their first deadline which was February 7th I'll share a little more about that later tonight but I'm happy to share uh that the most recent application was a a wonderful Partnership of all of our State colder to than our school district uh the teachers at Reams continue to vet new options for that literacy curriculum that was mentioned earlier with plans for us to make a decision in early spring uh whichever curriculum is chosen you know it will come with a substantial price tag um but we have budgeted for this and remain

015excited to align the instructional work in the science of reading with proper resources supporting that learning um I also attended meetings of our educational Partners at MSO Northwest Suburban MSD and saf in between these meetings I also participated in the Minnesota superintendence Institute and the Masa Federal advocacy committee learning about the potential impact of decisions happening in Washington DC and by the way they're more significant now than they have been in the past Al we're really watching things closely there in closing I continue to be very proud of the work being accomplished in our school district and I look forward to the wonderful things that lie ahead as we navigate navigate things this coming spring and that concludes my super intender report excellent thank you very much for your busy report thank you great to

016see not only leadership in the district but also across the straight so thank you for all of that any questions for Dr R Hoover seeing none we will move on and principal wara I believe you are next with some celebration yes excellent so excited to be able to welcome a few people uh the the join of being able to present to you is to introduce you to some really awesome people um so without further Ado I'll going to turn over to Jamie Madson who is going to introduce our student guest uh and he's going to talk a little bit of our outdoor club at trout and again if you those who know Jamie um Jamie is the magic that allows all of these awesome programs to happen and uh he'll talk later about how he's

017embedding uh this into the learning and specifically the PD of each and every teacher so we'll hear more a little bit about that um but for now we'll turn it over to J sure um I'll let these guys Inu some cell on up guys um they're going to talk to you a little bit about um outdoor club the camping of outdoor club and then Trum in the classroom something that we started this year um I'll let them do their deal and then we'll chat later yourself um my name is part of hi my name is VN I've been a four and we're doing a speech about outdoor club the trout in the classroom thing with the DNR and that's basically it for today hi I'm Emma hi I'm Marshall so first we're going to talk

018about outdoor club and some of of outdoor club is that if you don't have anything going on say for like a week you can just go there have some fun play with your friends and then also if you don't have equipment and you want to go they have appointment there for you um first meeting we did GPS's first we set the GPS to where we wanted to go we got an orange paper that had number 0 through 13 once we got to the checkpoint it was number if we got to checkpoint 4 there was a punch hole so we could punch up the number on the card of course we didn't do it alone we got put into a group of two to three this was so much fun we even got some hot chocolate

019after definitely one of the fun CL and then this off we were supposed to go snow shooting but of course we're having most dead win no snow so we're not going to have any snow we need like a foot to go snow shooting and we had maybe four in of snow but so we didn't go snow shooting and we did gpsing which I talked about and we did a lot about like a lot get to know each other games and this is a thing with other grades too there was a couple seventh and sixth grades I'm pretty sure and it was just all around a fun D the bus was and then trout this year we're doing a thing or so this year we had a tank come in and we had come in and

020they were just little eggs they were like that biger that big were like size of py nail though like your nail fre so and then when you get them they have like a little pry black eyes they so cool so when they grow up they get into the sack fry which they hand good choice great job great job great job did well go ahead I'm Emma what do you got okay anyway the stages of the sh X the eggs were smaller than your pinky nail you would see their tiny eyes inside of the bright orange eggs the sa the sa stage is the stage after the eggs the sa fry is smaller than the tip of your pinky and they have a bell like the they their mouths are too tiny to eat food so

021they eat off of their belly or their sack fry the fry is one of the cutest stages of the trout in my opinion they're technically tiny fish including their fence so they could finally swim which is which was exciting for all the fifth graders this has been one of the many class pets I've had in the past and this has to be one of I'm going to talk the some of the hardships are uh maintaining all the Trout making sure they get fed and and we get to learn all the chemicals and we made a couple bad mistakes um next time we can't put rocks because of the waste that the trout had once they started to eat was building up so the tank got all and the trout started to pass away um yeah

022rough day in the front world for us today um it really was I know we're not talking about um so back up yes Char unlimited is the sponsor of this and I should back up even further Education Foundation and some Anonymous donors to help us out with this um has it been a challenge absolutely it has um but I listened to these talk about this I didn't know anything about fish biology three months ago I'm clearly not an expert based on today's results um but uh we're learning it's messy learning is messy um and these kids are learning that um so uh great program we hope to expand it next year um put TS in other areas of the classroom um or other GRS uh elor Club they talking about this is the partnership between

023us um community and then three parks for Baker it started um we got some Grant monies last year uh that's paying for this first round of it uh we have 15 kids signed up 5'8 um apparently there's a whole bunch of f fairies who want to join this we're starting it out once a month um the nth part is Baker running the whole thing for us the natural are running for us um they sign up through commun ad um two hours after school once a month we're hoping to expand next year um I I we did this forever ago uh back when he first started as a sub school so it's nice to see this opportunity to come back and like they said it's a great opportunity for them to have something to do after

024school um staffed by staff here but run by Baker um so it's been so far um well received so that's the update on our trout don't go up there and look at them right now um and yes this is how we learn everybody okay so uh so just a couple things to add uh the reason why we selected this to celebrate is because it's a celebration of many Partnerships uh one with Three Rivers the other with Community Ed um and it's uh it's truly one of those things to hear them talk is is awesome and hopefully something we can continue to grow uh can we just give them a round ofuse thank you thank you I we could have asked questions like who had to clean up the dead seven I think it's not cleaned

025up yet oh I think it Happ today oh very good all right thank you so much that was EXC so not not big enough to eat yet Dr ID Hoover but maybe next time yes yes uh we will move forward then uh letter 6A the apack vote of concurrency Dr Perry Buffy and uh Jessica AAL I'm per Buffy I'm the district employee uh cultural eoon for our American Indian student education and this is Jessica peral who I just asked her today I knew this for a long time but she graduated from 19 years ago have the number make feel better I graduated from Rockford 42 it's all good um and there wasn't anything like this when you were in school no no so uh we're proud of the work we're doing and had our uh

026mandator mandatory vote um last week at our meeting and I think at this moment I will turn it over to as buy said my name is Jessica F and I'm the chairperson for our local APAC at our February 12th 20125 meeting we discussed our year which for the purpose of this discussion were considering to be March 1st 2024 to March 1st 2025 our purpose was to discuss whether we concur with the educational offerings that Rockford School District district has offered to our indigenous students we want to thank you for fulfilling our request made at this time last year that the school district with our input of our Apex parents h a cultural liaison we are grateful that record area schools hired Dr Buffy and I want to report on how that has helped us fulfill

027on the programming goals that submitted to MBE on November 30th 2024 One support postsecondary preparation for American Indian pupils two support the academic achievement of American Indian pup three make curriculum relevant to the needs interest and cultural heritage of Indian pupil four provide Pro positive reinforcement of the self-image of American Indian pups five develop Intercultural awareness among pupils parents and staff and six supplement not supplant state and federal education and co-curricular pro programs I want to give a few examples of how programming goals have been being met our Lea meets regularly with students in particular with the middle and high school students to mentor and encourage them to help prepare them for what they might want to do after they leave Rockford schools we are having regular meetings regular family events one of them which

028we're having tonight regular field trips and social events that help us celebrate our cultural heritage and provide positive rein reinforcement for Native self-identity we had a presentation last month designed specifically to increase Intercultural awareness among teachers students parents and the community for these reasons the aack concurs that the school board and District are compliant with the Minnesota statute section 124d 78 and that the school board and District are meeting with the needs of American Indian students we issue a vote of concurrence thank you I say something yes um I've said this before I know they've been here before the work that's happened under the leadership of Dr Buffy and Jessica this year with the APAC has been nothing short of remarkable um I see things happening almost every every day uh and it's become an

029exemplary APAC across the state I also share that um they will be highlighted in the up one of the upcoming editions this spring of the amsd connections um which will'll share a lot about Rockford and the apack themselves and I just want to say thank you because the work has been exceptional and the support to kids and families has been as well we're happy to be here any questions for Dr Buffy or Miss Pearl um I did have the opportunity to run into Dr Buffy uh last week and I and I shared with him and I'd like to share here and also for you to hear Miss pral I appreciate the passion that you go guys bring to apad didn't have it there you guys were here last year it was awesome I think the

030energy that has come from you uh Dr Buffy and helping lead um with Miss pral is outstanding so I appreciate both of you greatly um um for bringing your passion and and and your leadership to this group as well so thank you for that and for having brightly colored clothes on a cold day like we have thank you for that for sure excellent so this is an item for action for us to accept the vote of concurrence from the APAC committee I would appreciate a motion I make a motion to accept the vote of concurrence by APAC thank you Miss Johnson there's a first and a second I'll second thank you Mr shadine there's a first and a second any discussion see none all those in favor signify by I post and that does carry

031unanimously thank you so much for your time thank you and your energy thank you thank you guys all right moving on then we are going to go to 6B quarterly budget review we will ask our CFO Miss Peterson to join us and we did have quite a bit of conversation at our work session which detailed a lot of the uh budget information and some good questions were asked and Miss Peterson will ask for a review of that meeting good evening everyone um I'm going to present to you a review of the quarterly budget um for the quarter ended December 31st of 24 moving on to the summary page of this document which you have in front of you um as you heard me kind of uh discussing the work session um I I set this

032up so that it feels as though we are peeling the layers back of our onion uh so I start out really high level looking at all of the funds um one note of a reminder that December is 50% of our fiscal year complete so I have percentages in two separate columns for you to see I have last year's budget fiscal year-to date activity last year and last year's percentage um as spend percentage of our budget and then on the right side you can see the same thing for this current year so as I um review this high level from a fun level uh there's really um not a whole lot of excitement going on there which is exactly I think what we want to see uh our Revenue numbers look like U they're a little

033bit lower in a couple funds um that is strictly related to timing we have not received for instance if you look at the food service fund you see it's at 35 % we were at 34 last year that funded just fine we know our December meals don't come in until January so there's a lot of that stuff going on and just please know that I have peeled all of that back and reviewed all of that for you this evening um moving on to a more detailed level of Revenue by fund um and I'm going to speak primarily from the uh right side of this you can see that in the general fund the tax revenue collections are about 114% so it looks like we are not going to receive any more um tax revenue this

034year that is not the case uh that Revenue um all goes into the general fund when we collect it and then at year end I disperse it to the Community aded Fund and The Debt Service fund um that's just ease for accounting um and then to allow the counties to do things and make their Corrections and so I'm not doing a bunch of entries um but the food Ser or the I'm sorry the community service fund The Debt Service fund will receive tax revenue and they have received it it's just sitting in the general fund right now so um and then you can notice here on the general f at the top of the page where the local Revenue line is at 159% um so of course again that allows me to dig further and

035you'll hear um through this process of reviewing where we're at in these actuals it allows the opportunity to revise our budget and so that coincidentally is our next agenda item so you'll hear in that agenda item um all of my findings here and the reasons for some of these overages and or underes or what's going on but um moving away then you can well actually one last comment on the general fund you can see that our Revenue collections at are at our about 48% remember you heard me say we're at 50% complete so again we're very close timing is always a factor of delayed revenues coming in moving into nutrition service they're sitting at 35% again no no real alarms there for me either uh Community Ed though they are the winner they are exceeding

036their revenue even without the state aid or I'm sorry the tax levy Revenue in there so they're probably seeing closer to about 60% of their collections uh this evening and um that that's really good I know Melissa the director of community D has worked really hard and she's you just heard they're um creating new programs and everything so I'm not surprised that their revenue is where it is at at this time of the year so good work um and I commend Melissa for her efforts any questions on the revenue side from a fun level okay hearing none moving into then the expenditure side um I've highlighted for you by fund uh the eup fars and that's an accounting term um but it's the account structure that we have to use and so by category salaries

037and wages benefits all detailed there for you guys again there's a couple line items there that are running higher than 50% so I'll address those for you um in the budget revision and and kind of why we need to do that but um all in all the general fund overall is sitting at 42% spend uh so expenses are running a little lower than what we've projected and last year at this time we were sitting at about 38 39% so were a little higher than last year but still much lower than 50% um and then you can see the Food Service fund their expenses are running really low um that tells me we probably have not paid December's bill at the time of this report obviously um and and possibly even November um honestly there's you

038know vendors have to do building just like everybody else and so they they definitely could have with the holidays had stuff going so um we're definitely serving meals though and so no alarms there I guess either um moving into the community atun you can see there um so this one I was pleasantly surprised to see because remember last year the community ed fund they had a tiny small little deficit um and last year they were sitting at 53% spend and remember we're at 50 um but this year she's at 48.9 say she as the Director who's overseeing this budget so uh she is really doing a phenomenal job with um Community end so super super happy to see that and then the very last page of my quarterly report is yet another dive into just

039the general fund by program um I won't go into all the line items and why here in my report but you can if you do take your finger down that last column on the right side and looking for any items that are over 50% um believe me I I have answers for all of those um I will disclaim here that there are a couple line items in here where the budget is in one line item but the actual spend is in another so I do need to do a reclass either of the budget or the actual to get those two align it is a that zero but I do need to clean up some of those areas and much of that is just related to you fars and telling us where things need to go

040um but some of them in my quarterly um budget revision next agenda item you will hear me ask you to actually amend um some of these line items where we do see some overages any questions on that very high level but yet layering of both revenues and expenses for or all funds for Rockford for the quarter ended December 31st just looking across the board any follow-up questions from our work session or anything needing clarification excellent very good uh I appreciate uh the information uh Miss Peterson always helpful to see that and good to see numbers are in in in in good shape so thank you so much you're welcome excellent so with that we then have the ability to move on to succeed the revised budget uh budget amendments covered yes so each quarter our

041budget review provides us an opportunity to review these variances as you just heard me um report to you in that quarterly budget review and so um with that I do bring some attached recommendations for Budget amendments for the quarter the second quarter ending again December 31st um and so I will now walk through um where we were at so um last spring um when we ad Ed our original FY 2425 budget uh we adopted that budget at 1,485 students um and as you know that budget had $177,000 loss projected for us for this current school year um school started in September and we are fortunate enough to have 1,532 kids um that we believe we will have as an ADM or an adjusted daily membership across Rockford for the whole entire school year so I

042am basing my budget revisions this evening on 1,532 kids um and so with that work um when I add that increase in kids the revenue is increasing for Rockford or I'm asking to revise the revenue and increase the gened number by almost $300,000 a right around it's actually closer to like 350,000 um for Rockford for fi25 as well as um there's an increase to some special education expenses um with increased enrollment um and so I'm looking to increase the special education Revenue about 200,000 um also there's a couple smaller Federal line items um where I would be asking the board uh for about a 400 or $49,000 increase to some federal revenue um and then the interest earnings are definitely trending so as you heard me saying the quarterly report that the revenue in local

043Revenue that's where this interest earnings Falls was well over 100% And the reason for them as I dug in um is interest earning so yes we um have received well a little over 310,000 interest Revenue so I'm asking to um revise the interest Revenue number up to 345,000 for fiscal year fy2 so all in all with those stating increases federal revenue increas es and interest earning increases I would like to ask to increase the revenue projection for Rockford to $349 for fy2 I will pause for any questions on that Revenue revision okay no questions from the board no questions on revenues okay excellent moving on to expenses so I'm just asking for two um kind of line item increases now there's probably you know 50 accounting codes that I'm going to be changing but the

044high level for all of you this evening is to increase the salary uh benefit Lines by $138,600 th000 and then I have like I said probably 25 30 lines related to supply budgets I'd like to disclaim hearing the word supply seems a little bit like you know teacher supplies or student instructional supplies this is a a uar supply category that does Branch across um technology software licensing um and you know some of it's a pretty broad area so the bulk of these overages that I'm SE or the ask for this $882,000 increase is in some of that technology or the bulk of it is in that um area um mainly with like I said the licenses are definitely up more than projected um not because we're increasing the number but just the cost of software

045licensing and such is increasing um and then we did purchase some other things in technology that were not necessarily budgeted for but but needed um you related to fixing stuff so it wouldn't crash and and that kind of thing um there are some changes to some um expenditure line items in normal curricular areas you know instructional supplies for kids and teacher areas as well as we're we're we're learning this new way of budgeting in Rockford um and so working with those principles a lot closer is definitely our goal to keep us all in alignment so that's the update on the expense side and then you have in your packet uh what all of this means uh so when we increase the revenue by 933 th000 increase our expenses by approximately 220,000 the new projection for

046Rockford would be that we have a $535,000 profit budget so taking us out of that deficit U budget into this um more positive or black if you will number um you can see there then that will leave us um at an ending fund balance projection of just about 6.3 million at the end of that by 25 pausing for questions yes yes please do interest sorry small Mr Morgan question sorry does interest roll into the debt Redemption no it does not good question it stays these are only generals y good perfect thank you thank you no other questions then all right this is an action item then I would appreciate a motion to accept fiscal year 245 budget amendments for Quarter Two I move to approve thank you Mr Morgan there is a first in a

047second second thank you Miss hilstrom there is a first in a second any discussion see none all those in favor signify by I I post and that does carry unanimously thank you very much Mr Peters thank you all right we can then move on to student achievement and growth and we will bring Mr warzeka back to the podium or table again it's been a while um I appreciate getting a chance to come to the board I know you have a a busy night before you but would love to talk to some of the exciting things at the middle school um there thank you um so first and foremost again just going back to our uh student celebration to kind of highlight that as um many different conversations with many different Partnerships and you'll hear more

048about um all of our strategic uh plans as we go through um a quick overview um without further Ado we'll kick it off with healthy and support environment so what you're going to see is a combination of our um School Improvement U plans it is also a combination of Q comp and just general things we are doing to accomplish um the mission and vision of the district um how we do them is obviously a reflection of our core values so first and foremost uh it starts with a healthy and supportive environment so one of our goals is around um really making sure that uh students have at least one trusted adults adult in the building so just some things as you are aware uh we started our see something say something which rolls out today

049in the Middle School um and then we also are doing some intentional teaching about how to access uh principes counselors uh to report any incidents or issues and then uh we started a check and connect pilot program to the University of Minnesota so we've gone through now about a quarter and a half of that program so that's a Intervention databased Program that is around mentorship and using that uh to help promote academic and behavioral gains with students um and have saw a lot of early uh signs that that intervention is uh effective and then uh in addition our frequent monitoring of all of the different uh things such as t absence is grades the one thing going back um to our goal it's important to us that we not only make sure that students can

050identify a trusted adult but that the adult also when possible um knows that that is their person just so uh there's a Heen sense of that um because we know that uh everybody needs a person especially in schools um and then lastly we implemented a paper staff and student nomination form which is as simple as a box and a coup slips of paper in our uh lunchroom our staff lunchroom where staff can nominate uh different other staff who are doing great things and they get a shout out in my weekly uh update to all staff and then if it's a student I will connect with them uh personally and tell them what a great job and on what so that has uh provided a lot of uh healthy momentum and just making sure we take

051time to notice all the positive things that are going on um rolling over to student achievement and growth this is a very detailed and needy one as it encompasses a lot of what we're trying to accomplish specifically with our building instructional leadership team and so out of this as you are aware our main focus is on identifying essential standards for each course um and corresponding learning targets and then making sure that uh we're creating and revising the summative assessments for each course so uh one thing I can appreciate about this work is just making sure that every that we have a unanimous way of doing this and even though everybody's in a different space we can honor um those who've done this either before and we can also um work towards a system that um

052can hopefully make certain to out live all of us and uh have added transparency shout out just because she's in the room um to Kathy Matson about uh our work towards this specific rubric I know that the board has seen this uh probably multiple times um it is important to me that you hear how uh specifically as a middle school principal I've appreciated this uh not only does it give us a baseline it allows clear Direction um for anybody walking into the system because we know the Staples of Standards learning targets and assessment um are standard in every uh school and school system I I have appreciated uh much like John had he talks about visible learning that's good for the adults too so um it gives us a baseline this year that also allows

053us to be able to identify what are those areas that maybe uh we we we need to further support the curriculum um to BU standards um and I know this is we're going through this process wrapping up into this spring um additionally Q comp uh cycle uh at the middle school is 33 students showing growth um by decreasing their risk level and again that's in Reading in 24 and math um this specific uh number has truly allowed us to focus on the data of who's making um who's making the progress specifically today um I met with an Anis teacher and we talked about um in review of the data specifically as we look at winter fast which students um have shown enough progress where they're graduating from that Intervention which students um in addition might

054need a different intervention because they're not showing the progress um that that intervention was hoping to so I think that's uh created some really healthy conversations among built individuals um within that um for culture of collective purpose uh I'm going to turn it over to jie Madison and I'll ask him to come up and join me for this one to highlight the good work about making our mag come to life all right again um so as members of northwest ofan or nsw ISB um we are evaluated every three years um called reflection and review um this will be well it's not this year it's coming up again next year but one of the goals that they had coming up out of this is all right where does your magnet programming show up in your curriculum

055um the the answer to that has always been well it's woven through the curriculum but is it specifically called out I don't know that we've had that specific called out process yet this is the first kind of step in um heading in that direction so um with my schedule being a little bit different this year I'm in every other day I'm for social St I won't get into my schedule but it allowed me the ability to then have one-on-one um meetings with the teacher so I approached um staff development earlier this year and I said what do you think about St down Beach teacher um with the lens of U you click on the r oh um taking a look at this rubric and figuring out okay look at your subject area where do you

056land here on these four different categories um and these categories have kind of evolved as years have gone on um there's outdoor red that's getting outside okay um doesn't necessarily mean teaching about stuff outside it could be teaching a regular content Theory outside okay level biomes is something that we've been talking about for a number of years um there's a lot of really strong tie-ins for each grade level having a biome I think I've talked to the board about that before um environmental integration is true like okay what pieces of environmental integation can I bring in what I'm currently teaching and then engineering design process uh much like um much like the the writing process much like problem solving much like solving math problems um there's there's lots of different places can be integrated so

057teachers looked at this and they kind of ranked themselves on where they landed on this um no pressure this is one thing I'm going to share with Paul this is just where were you at let's sit down and have a conversation about it um then I met with them each time and I just I listen to them about what they currently do um and where I can help them and what goals do they have um some people um and this is I've been doing this for a while some people are the people who yes I want to get outside every single day this is my thing that's not everybody's deal and also doesn't it's not appropriate for every class either um and having different inroads this was really helpful to the teachers um one particular

058person I met with um she's one that she's not one that takes the kids outside um but there's a particular book she was reading about it's called radian girls I don't know if you're familiar with the book but it's a it's a story of um some girls who were um painting watch or excuse me um numbers on watches um and licking the brushes in between and long story short it turned out very poorly for them and she says well so she's telling me about this I'm like well okay so that sounds like an example of we didn't know any better okay are there other examples of that okay AI like a thousand examples of when have we done something we didn't know the consequences of where that was going to go how can I tie

059that in and right then that was her hook and she think oh oh I get it I can invite I can do environmental integation it can tie into the book that I'm currently already doing with the kids um and this is the endro that we can make so we kind of tied that into Eagles we didn't know any better um turns out that the shells are getting really um Fragile with eagles they were sitting in their shells and crushing their eggshells till we figured out what was going on and there's like a thousand examples out there so that was a good way for her to tie that in with the kids um a project that you're going to do with them so the goal with this um was to First identify what's currently happening then

060identify some goals with them like what can we accomplish this year um what's achievable and then I'll come back to you um in the spring and see where we're at what stuck what went well what are you like nope didn't want I'm not going to do that again but you don't know until you try um with the idea that you know everybody's going to move over is everyone to move our in every category no that's not necessarily appropriate for everyone to move our in every category because it doesn't necessarily fit their um content area so um this has been nice and and the fact that I I know these people I've been around for a while I have a little Street c that I can go in and just sit and have a conversation with

061them and it's not intimidating um I'm not here to judge this is just like hey how can we do this um how can we make ourselves unique because this is our hook um you know we're we're a stem school yes there's a lot of stem schools out there we're a stem school that also focuses on the environment that's our hook you know and well Paul can talk about the tour we have today I mean I'll let you talk about that but yes um so if we can continue to mind that and then when we come back from Northwest Suburban again next spring I'm hoping that I'm able to show this like here's where we're at here's where our holes are here's we can back fill and then what do we need to do with that

062so it's been successful I've been happy with it so far any questions for Jamie before he heads out there awesome thanks yep all right thank you so again the other component of this that um see similar as the other rubric that we showed you is how we use it um to make sure that um we pair similar teachers with similar uh goal related things and really Foster have an idea of who wants on what and how we can amplify that for the purpose so a couple things um just to kind of talk about Community School family Partnerships there's a lot to share here um if you if you are available I would encourage you to come join us with the stem showcase uh we're really trying to amplify that and make that a community event

063um and I uh again would love to have you come on out and pay a visit even for a short amount of time um we got a lot of really cool neat opportunities uh and some that uh are a little bit different than than previous years um and then uh the one thing I want to highlight So Jamie and I got an opportunity to visit Weaver lake at their event and we hope to expand that to other elementaries as well as recruit within our own uh starting at dreams uh in their arts and academics um but out of that we just uh have noticed an uptick in families being aware specifically younger than what we typically I uh we just gave a tour of a whole lot of kids and I know in particular uh

064they had uh four or five fifth graders and then um then three third graders so yeah it's great to see young families showing interest um and we've seen that even slightly more than what what we're used to um and then uh let's see the the other thing that's important is building stronger bonds with activities in athletics specifically at the high school giving them an opportunity to come on over to stem showcase or if we have something going on in the building to make sure if they want to come in just be a present and promote their activity uh that we do so across all of our high school activities um and then um we had kindness week that was a fantastic job by our web leaders kept off where they did an activity with our

065fifth graders um continuing some uh Bond our strong bonds with our FF and a uh which you will soon learn are doing some really cool neat opportunities um and last it would not be a board update if I did not invite you to chaer on a middle school dance so that's coming up on February 28th um and I think we have 16 parent volunteers so I I can't wait um that' be good time um as we talk about the uh stewardship of resources and again this is just kind of a broadcast overview of some things we're trying to focus on um when we look at hiring teachers making sure we offer informal tours um so we get a a sense of who they are uh as best as we possibly can and how they interact

066with uh those in our community um making sure we have mentorship one thing to highlight too um the partnership with MSO this year has been fantastic we've overhauled our entire SP program not only moving it from upstairs to down uh but really training everybody who works within that program parents Etc on the ideas the philosophies that pass and really starting from the ground up and it is uh a whole team of MSO so that is one unique partnership that you might not hear about and um specifically as a steward of re resources to make sure that those who are working with our kids have the the most proper training and have all the information they need um and then uh creatively Emily Bartels has been assisting with uh the unique schedule com complications that come

067with um of a large par team and many abs going um and so really maximizing the student support on ground level and then obviously continuing monitoring of uh spending Staffing U budgets and then um we're really seeking ways uh to make deep Portage uh more cost neutral and maintain what is otherwise some inflationary Rises for both transportation and um and DEP Portage lastly a cool little thing I get to share uh with you and endon is um one thing I appreciate about Rockford is there's always a dream uh and there's always a partnership with somebody willing to come along side so we what started as a conversation between K and Jamie uh on vertical farming um specifically with our EG classroom actually grew no pun intended uh into our food service and Chef arand uh

068and our EG signs uh have a relationship where um it is our intent uh just arrived uh this last week where we will grow the lettuce uh kids will grow in this um SE gr quarter class for AG signs and the lettuce they grow is the lettu they eat La room which is a really cool not only talking point but it's a u hopefully they don't walk by the lettuce and just keep walking and try it and eat more fruits and so with with all that is there any followup questions um or things I can sh light to all good all good awesome appreciate thank you for all your work and all your information good stuff thank you uh we will then move on to 7B learning and Innovation report it looks like Dr Ryle

069Hoover and we may be being joined by a guest yes um would you like me to come there Kathy or stay wherever you um I I just want to make sure that you know I think Kathy doesn't like the need an introduction I give you anyway Kathy is our learning Innovation specialist and Kathy and I work um side by side um on all things instruction from the district and she's going to share some things tonight with you of the work that we've been engaging with really for the better part of the school year but in particular the last couple months so yes I'll pass slides just cck y perfect thank you so I'm really happy to be here with you tonight I'm grateful to do this work in Rockford this is my 21st year I've

070been here my entire career and so the opportunity to support teachers and learn from Dr Ryle Hoover and our fantastic principal team and work with our leadership teams at the has been a super exciting development for me in my professional career so I feel tremendous support and I also feel my roots as an English teacher so when I started this year in the work of implementing or building instructional leadership teams I developed this graphic to symbolically show how I thought of this work and so the first picture relates to the collaboration and learning we're working to do um the one on the right is is innovation new ideas and then at the center is growth for both our teachers and our students so thank you for the opportunity to share a big part of the

071work I've been doing is with our building instructional leadership teams and as a part of a class I'm in right now I wrote this about the shift I've seen in the district that really is tied to a positive collaborative culture leadership and Collective purpose and really that speaks to our healthy supportive environment and that's exactly what's enabling student achievement and growth to highlight the work the builds have been doing I've created a newsletter and this comes from feedback from teachers they said in December they wanted to see into what the builts were doing in a steady way and so we created this built newsletter so they can see snapshots and then follow up with built team members to understand what those conversations are about and ask followup questions as they have them and really the

072goal is that this news letter will tell the story of what we've done throughout the entire year one of the things we've done throughout the year is kind of Reform the way we're using data and the way we're structuring our building goals so when we rolled that out to teams this is how we framed that reminding them to keep it in perspective and the new goal structure as principal wara talked about is decreasing risk so helping students grow by decreasing their risk level and this new structure really empowers teachers in the process because they can see the results they can see the fast scores that come from that that are hosted in Infinite Campus our student Information System One Way teachers are working with the data uh is through data Retreats at Reams and I

073want to celebrate Rachel yakish for her leadership in this work and you can see that those data Retreats were well received um they felt like that that time provided them an opportunity to express where they're at with literacy instruction and they also voice that they'd like to see those continue and so we're going to continue to innovate and find ways to offer that time for teams to collaborate and innovate the elementary school is also working through a timeline for curriculum review to adopt a literacy Curriculum by this spring that's Dr R Hooper shared we are in the process of setting up some site visits we confirmed a virtual visit with a school that's implenting the curriculums we're considering for March and that will also be when a site visit the middle school I was going

074to highlight um what was just highlighted and Jamie certainly did a job that exceeds what I could do to highlight that but I want to celebrate his work with that Environmental Education I also want to share we had a map um team meeting so we pulled them for a day that new team to support them in developing ccul that they could feel confident about I'm going to share more about the high school in a minute but before we get there I want to talk about some of our professional development structures this year so far I put teachers in the position of students meaning that I've hosted all our PLC and professional development work on Google classroom and this created some discomfort for teachers to learn how to interact with that tool and uh it required

075support from our guilt teams and it has been an effective way to sort of get them to think as Learners um and I think for the most part we are through the hardest part of the learning curve with that um I want to highlight some of our PD work I would say this year we've been really focusing on providing teachers with longer chunks of time to do work that's really focused on a few areas and you'll see that in October that was focused on Curriculum maps in November it was Curriculum maps again plus training onl a tool that supports student achievement with math and reading here's a few snapshots of our use of that tool since November and we've recently decided we'll continue with that tool for math and language arts support so I look

076forward to just watching teachers use that in addition to their Core Curriculum to support students withs can how many how many grade levels using uh we piloted with all of them and then we're going to go first through 10th for the next year okay so this is uh representation of 1 through 10th grade utilizing the uh this this specific data was 1st through 12th but higher use in certain pockets and it was started in what month would you in late fall in Earnest in November I was just wonder what the treatment area was yeah it's cool to get that data it's a great and we do have the data by deer by all that yes so using this in combination with other interventions I think it will be a powerful way to support burning we

077also had a rocket Camp you know I love to bring a pie chart that's 100% to you they really appreciate that format and we had a great series of sessions the the sessions led by Rockford area teachers were the highest rated and so I want to celebrate that and continue to encourage that engagement with leading sessions and sharing expertise with each other within our professional learning communities which meet weekly we've been acknowledging the reality of the work and moving through a process that might requ some trust because it's new and connects to past history that might bring emotions and just really being sure we welcome feedback along the way from teachers and being really clear about what our focus is and what our goals are in terms of standards and learning targets and assessments so

078the core of our instructional work the curricular maps are the way teachers are really document that currently and so this is the template that all teachers are using and we created a guide for them to move through that work and they're all in progress and as principal wara shared they're writing themselves on this rubric which I developed on a phone call with principal Ora um mentally and then sat down at a computer to make it a reality and I just looked at the data and everyone has moved up and category since October so in this in the same way that we want to see students moving up in achievement we're seeing that from teachers and we're modeling instructionally something that also helps them in their classroom we also adapted this for our teams that have

079unique roles like our district counselors there's a different learning skill and they've identified a goal for example our counselors are working on attendance supporting improved attendance across the district and so they're using this scale to rate their priice in that goal overall when teams reflect on our program it is well received overall and in terms of thinking about what they see as most valuable they have rated the three you know shaded areas as the top and staff development this is the first time that has ever been at the top so I was glad to see that increase in value um I want to see the observation category reinvigorated I think sometimes rethinking how we approach those observations could help provide that energy um and I want to share some teacher voice about the program and

080I've bolded some of the words that highlight um a trend in how teachers are thinking about the work we're doing through professional development and plc's with that pattern and being goal focused and valuing teacher voice and collaborating and feeling that sense of coaching we do ask teachers also to tell us what they see as the least valuable and this has been the area that teachers rate as the least valuable I think because they felt the least sense of agency I hope to see that change with the change in goal structure one of the things I also want to highlight about our new goal structure is a way of working with data that is new and the high school has been piloting that this year so I want to celebrate Samantha Bloom who's been collaborating with

081me in our high school Guild to create Clarity around how we're going to review data and share it and make sure students know where they're at and families know where their students are at and that our teachers know as well as a part of that this fall we shared testing data with students and asked them to share what they noticed about it and student voices you can see how they put things uh and that reflects the reality of what teachers work with in their classrooms every day there's a large large Variety in voices and we asked them to reflect on how they could use that information and what questions they have uh the swimmer is to goggles as pilot is to Flying is that right I was standing trying to understand what this student was

082telling me and I checked in with Kevin nef and he said oh that's one of the questions on the test and so I had a student who could recite questions from the test which has led to good conversations for us as far as testing structure overall students have appreciated seeing their data and it's fun to watch them annotate it and draw some inferences about what it reflects once we shared it the information with students then we took it to departments and they had a structured conversation about student achievement Guided by these questions and then they discussed and collaborate um by noting what they see as the barrier for specific students and then how they can act to support the student in achievement and then we worked through a defined process that we're piloting to then

083create student achievement plans and this is the template and this is one that's kind of an example of what it looks like once it's filled out so we take the data from testing and from class performance we think about the barriers that might exist in those contexts we think about the systemic level supports and then we start to dig into okay given all of that information how do we support the student in the classroom each individual classroom and then also broadly across all classrooms with the formative and summative work effectively this was work that just was happening last week it will be happening tomorrow morning in the high school media center again and I'm excited about where this will take us and it won't just support single students because as teachers have these conversations they'll

084make adjusts to to instruction that impact their entire classroom and speaking to impacting the entire classroom we also met about our mtss system um as a district team and we reflected on our current process how we're going to strengthen it and we're going to communicate that out to teachers in March and April and then we'll revise and plan the implementation for next year so there's many things to celebrate and there's a lot to come and I appreciate all the support and the great teams I'm getting to work with you have any questions for me um I have a comment very good Miss Johnson I just want to go back to teacher voice about cuom would love to share that with the State Legislature for them to hear from our teachers about how valuable Q comp

085is because that voice needs to be heard right now we really need that heard so passing that on to teachers like somehow get that voice heard from our teachers about how important Q comp is so we can continue because I can say it as much as I want but I'm not a teacher and our teachers need to be sharing that too because that voice needs to be heard over and over down there because they're it's on the chopping block and we don't want that to go away it's important it's valuable and it's valuable for our teachers but it's valuable for our kids it's it's very important so if we can continue to have that teacher voice that would be wonderful agreed thank you yes ever since I heard that I've been thinking about how would

086we re-envision this work if we didn't have that and I'm someone who if you're like do you have IDE for this I'm like how many do you want and this is one where it's like I'm I'm really struggling to come up with my normal your six because it's so embedded into our practice here at Rober ex that's and they need to hear that because uh today I was down there at the capital and someone shared that Farmington in a meeting Jamie right that Farmington wants to get rid of cuom but it's because of how they designed their plan it isn't about what qm is it's about the faults in their design and that's why they're upset with it but that voice is not the voice that should be heard the voice that should be heard

087is the successes of qom and how much it benefits so many districts and it helps our kids absolutely it I mean just looking through this it's helping our kids when you have have it designed well and it's you know benefiting our staff and then that trickles to our kids that needs to be heard that's a voice that needs to be heard down there right now so um yeah we can get more voices from our teachers that would be wonderful great comment also um I just want to say thank you for all of this work and all of this detail it's great to see what's going on especially the newsletter that you're sharing with staff I know we had a lot of people excited about built program so it's it's exciting to see that they're still

088excited and wanting to know what's happening and it's great that you're able to share with them so that they can really so that we can all feel involved in the process so it's I I love it great thank you Pasco and I'll say that that is really wonderful to see because of the transparency then so that everybody becomes an owner of the process and I just wanted to commend you on using the pdsa cycle because that's so well researched and if you ever need resources I've used that at a state level so reach out and that you also have that student action plan because you're moving teachers from admiring data to actually doing something which is a really important step if you're going to have any systematic change in student um achievement so it's wonderful

089and I appreciate the openness that you have to come to this meeting to share all of this with us Beth thank you for saying that um that's exactly what this was designed to do um and and I was actually going to say that you know you look at this stuff and sometimes you look at the if we do nothing with this we just we we do an autopsy in the year and saying well this kid didn't wasn't successful well we see right now that we can look at this sitting in February before it becomes too late and how can we do this wraparound care for each kid using data and also observable you know things from all of the staff so hugee huge um kudos to the entire staff for engaging in this work the

090data work that's happening right now is in its infancy but it's really really coming along well um and then the other part I wanted to share you know Kathy and I created a a road map for instruction a structural road map last year and you've seen already from the three different buildings those exemplars of um you know standards learning targets and assessments well we are actually looking at our road map for the next two years and saying I think we need to adjust some things and so not just saying well we plan this last year so we'll do this so we have an upcoming um instructional cabinet where we're going to partner with u many of our our teachers to say help us develop the next two years and I think we have that coming

091up in is it early March March and um that's going to be pretty uh pretty powerful I think because we're going to be actually asking the folks boots on the ground what do you think should be our next steps and how should we get there so um the collaboration and partnership piece is alive and well um I also want to thank Kathy uh we meet regularly and we talk about all these things she's in the trenches with all of our bill all three of them um all of the time and um then we take all of that information and we design the next steps in our process so um I think I heard the word from Jamie street cred whether we call it that or political Capital Kathy has it and it really does help

092move the needle when people trust the people working with them so that that's been a huge plus and I want to thank Kathy for that you excellent any other comments just making sure thank you so much M appreciate your time thank you great work great work um moving on then to healthy and supportive environment number 8A adds this application yeah the application is in the board bag online um but I wanted to share again as I did the work session in prior to to the um my superintendent report today that we did um work in partnership with our adsis teachers and and administration to submit our Adis application at the first deadline there's actually two uh February 7th and I think the other one is March 7th um we got ours in early and I

093think it's really strong um it's 60 some odd pages long just on the narrative component of it and then there's the um um there's the budget document that I worked closely with Bridget on compiling and a couple other different components that all went into that that process what I want to share with the public and the board knows this already is we did make an application for the next two years because they're in a two-e cycle to include and and keep the things we have and hopefully to also increase um two total FS a 1.0 math ft at the elementary school and a a 1.0 um point five to fill out reading and a05 to fill out math at the middle school um we don't know if we're going to get all of it some

094of it um I'm pretty sure we we won't have any issues getting none of it but who knows with the political winds as they're blowing I think we're quite quite confident um the work that happened the last two-year cycle has been um demonstrated to be moving the needle and we'd like to continue that as a note to the the board and the public uh whatever is granted through the MD application is roughly um provided in reimbursement Revenue to us at 56% so there is a cost to this as the district at 44% for this work and we're looking to engage in this work in different ways um some as I mentioned at the work session U would include some pushin as well as the pull out on adsis we're feeling pretty good about the areas

095of the work we're doing in both uh reading math and behavior so with that being said I wanted to make sure that I shared with the entire board that we are working around um the assumption that much of this will be granted for us in school year 25 26 and 26 27 and that is the application that went forward so there any questions with respect to the application I'm happy to stand for them now or um see what happens and I'll bring back information any questions from the board no very good then we will move forward look forward to the next update on Anis uh moving up to number nine cultural like to purpose the school year 2526 calendar revision Dr idah Hoover thank you chair Gordy as mentioned previously there has been some work

096done uh to recommend some revisions to the school year 2526 calendar the revisions being recommended uh for approval tonight for your approval tonight uh would be uh decreasing the student um instructional Days by two and replacing them with professional learning days because we are shorten them and this will align us better with many districts around the state and provide us with more opportunities for teachers to collaborate in the areas of instruction as mentioned by Kathy so those two dates that we are recommending the board to approve in this revision um as professional learning days are February 17th 2026 and April the 6th 2026 in addition to that we are looking to move our new teacher days which don't affect students or families um at all from the 12th and 13th of August to the 5th

097and 6th of August and to move kindergarten round up up a month to the month of February and that date would be February the 5th being that the board did approve um this calendar roughly a year ago uh we're asking the board under your purview to please um uh take into consideration these recommendations for revision and vote to approve those this evening excellent thank you so much Dr ID Hoover and we did have consider considerble conversation at our work session uh prior to this meeting as well talking about uh this calendar how there was input from uh District staff uh building staff as well as how this aligns much better to what other districts uh touch districts are doing with us in terms of instructional days as well as stacking some of our professional development

098days with uh extended weekends for families to take advantage of that so appreciate that any questions or comments at this time from work session very good with that I would appreciate a motion I'll make that motion to approve the updates to the 2526 calendar thank you Miss Johnson there is a motion can I have a second please second thank you Miss prasa there's a first and a second any further discussion seeing none all those in favor signify by I I post that does carry unanimously thank you so much uh moving along we have final read for 9B policy review and please remember that 613 R was removed from the agenda so that is not part of the final read this evening uh I'll give this up to Dr Ryle Hoover or the policy committee policy

099committee um we've had these out there uh actually since December yep I believe um and like said we just have um some things that need to be corrected on the 613 because of the switch over from one program to another there are a couple errors made so we're pulling that and it'll be on the agenda for next month but other than that nothing else has changed from last month to this month so anybody have any questions regarding any of that okay just a reminder the all of these are msba model policies except for 620 which we will be approving and that has the r which has some minor um objects in there 524 I don't have that so in the um fix that thank you very much so we will fix that into the R

100so any so I'd appreciate a motion to approve the policies listed I will make a motion to approve the listed policies thank you very much there is a first and a second I'll second thank you Mr shadine there is a first and a second and the only amendment is on the uh um included uh cover sheet 524 R has to be amended in there for the notes excellent so is first and second any further discussion no seeing none all those in favor signify by I I opposed and those policies do care unanimously we will move on to resolution of acknowledgements of contributions and Nations Dr idah Hoover thank you CH I just like to thank and extend the appreciation on behalf of board and the school district the many uh folks and entities who have

101U provided donations via monetary supplies or in kind donations through the school district for the month of February exent so again echoing the uh generous donations from from multiple people um for our activities our classrooms and our uh co-curriculars so this is a resolution but I would appreciate a motion to accept contributions I'll make a motion to accept the contributions and donations unstated thank you m Johnson there's first and a second second thank you Mr Morgan first and a second any discussion seeing none Madam clerk will you please call the role Jus Johnson hi Morgan hi Gord hi Jamie hilstrom itha I Kevin I perfect that does carry unanimous ly then we'll move on to 10B with announcements uh board education work session Wednesday March 12th 2025 5:30 in the district office boardroom regular meeting

102of the Board of Education Wednesday March 12th 2025 6:30 in the district office boardroom I believe that is all we have on the Slate no other committees very good then we'll move on to board and committee updates and I will provide mine first um we did have a facilities committee today this morning right uh where we talked about our our um continuation of the projects with the track and the uh parking lots so that's progressing along nicely continuing on uh amsd uh meeting where Dr ridle Hooper was was there and I had joined virtually able to go in there Jessica and I are working together to go through uh board msba board chair training we had a session last week on Thursday we will be be here again tomorrow U if any of yall want

103to come and do virtual stuff with us uh and then um grateful about the uh board retreat that we did have so that was a nice opportunity for us and those are oh yeah and some planning for these two meetings that we just had just safe all right uh who'd like to go next Miss Johnson thank you all right so yes board retreat so new board members on your form like this feel free to put out School SCH board retreat put it as the 1st of January or sorry the 30th of January and label it as c um just make sure you have it on there um anyway so we had the board retreat which was awesome I left that like feeling awesome about direction of the district and everything and I just thought we

104it was very well coordinated and uh beneficial and uh love our board I just think everybody is here for the right reasons and it's just awesome I love it um uh calendar committee was there for that one uh it was great um nice to have so many voices at the table um and I think we came up with some really good days uh to benefit our staff to give them the staff development that they need um board prep calls and then um part a training last week tomorrow B uh was really good last week really really good very informational awesome looking forward to it tomorrow uh today I attended the facilities meeting in the morning and then got in the car with uh Clerk hilstrom and we drove down to the state capital and spent

105the day down there uh for saf uh schools for um Ting for advocating for fair funding um we visited with all of our reps down mayor uh senators and house um reps was really a good day down there we had some amazing conversations St Michael um big lake and anandale were with us and it was wonderful it was really a great day down there um uh the conversations with our representatives were just good quality conversations it was nice that they could give us the time because their schedules are so packed and they just were fully there during those meetings so it was really nice um and I think oh maso meeting had that and yes I am the chair now over in maso so um uh yeah one more hat there um but yeah so

106I think that's it any questions very very good next person Beth please so just the board retreat and I caught the tail end of the very tail end of the policy conversation they were fast I was late because of a meeting and I walked in they're like oh we finished but we did review a few we did and I had read them on my own so thank you but yes that's it Miss Hil could you go next please uh yeah a board retreat um um MS stuff just uh their copy and conversation and they have a Friday chat that goes over legislative issues for the week um which I always find very informative it is if if you don't go regularly it is hard to find a catch up because they move fast um I

107went to a chamber uh meeting this month just a Cofe uh in the morning um the calendar committee with Jessica um I went to a saff meeting with Jeff um again schools advocating for fair funding um and then attended their day at the capital today um again great meeting with all the legislators they were really receptive and also some of them like threw out their own ideas and one was like well how can we write a bill for this and was asking for those types of things so it was it was really great um and then finished up with a policy committee right and I know because you forgot cuz I forgot as well the coffees in conversation from msba the board chair chat which I was right some of those things that I will

108say uh St Anthony Brighton probably will have a staff or a board handbook that looks really similar to ro there there might be a couple of other oh there's a few I I said reach out to jaff oh no I just put the link from the last board meeting right in the chat so great Mr chenine would you mind sharing what you have I don't have much just the uh Schoolboard retreat was great and about it perfect awesome thank you and Mr I too enjoyed the retreat it was uh revealing um quite surprised and then um the first finance committee session was good it was good to get um get a little bit of familiarity with U school account I forgot to mentioned the policy meeting today yeah today's just been a day Schoolboard day

109from 7:30 this morning on so I would ask questions about the shocking school board retreat but I'll leave that to you besides the fact that I'm completely opposite from though that was that shocking shocking how accurate you answer some questions and they tell you all your insecurities it was really good gave you good Insight right honestly apparently we all got we all got y so appreciate all all of your updates um and this next item is hard because it's adjournment I'll make a motion to adjourn have a second thank you Miss Johnson first in a second any questions or discussion see none all those in favor by iOS and 806