Board of Education Meeting - March 12, 2025

001e e e to it's a great day we're trying to think of ways teachers would get classes to slow quiet down a little bit uh welcome everyone it's a uh it's wonderful to see so many people here uh this is I'll just do a little editorial this is one of my favorite meetings because we have parkway's best and brightest uh with us to celebrate uh your many achievements uh in your school building so we're excited to do that um so in specifically 31 exceptional Parkway teachers uh chosen by their peers uh as teacher of the year that you have shown dedication to students hosted Community spirit and consistently demonstrated a commitment to Excellence a special thank you to the parkway Alumni Association for sponsoring the teacher of the year program the Alumni Association provides monetary

002Awards and Crystal apples for the district elementary middle and high school teachers of the Year recipients uh so uh let's uh first we'll open our meeting officially with Pledge of Allegiance United States ofer so with all that said uh the board members are going to get up and uh if we could please welcome Dr Tiffany Holman best to introduce our teachers of the year president Todd vice president H Dr Marty and board members it brings me great joy to present our 2025 teachers of the year because of their sacrifice and dedication our students are reaching their goals coming closer to their dreams and they are well on their way to changing the world teachers please come forward as your name is called from Barrett's Elementary Carrie Frasier art teacher [Applause] physical education teacher at B

003Reeve Elementary Jesse Taylor first grade teacher at Carmen Trails CC lamarsh instructional coach at Claymont Elementary School C Cody burette from Craig Elementary kindergarten teacher Emily Waldman from our early childhood preschool teacher Katie Sawyer third grade teacher green Trails Ashley Holly from Hannah Woods fourth grade teacher Carrie Glenn kindergarten teacher at Henry Elementary Danielle teranova from High coft Bridge Kimberly rud first grade teacher from Mason Ridge Elementary our Elementary at elementary school teacher of the year and District teacher of the year danet Randol fifth grade teacher Mel intermediate Emily mccardy kindergarten teacher Melby primary Lisa Campbell from Oakbrook Elementary physical education teacher Jenny kulie first grade teacher at permont elementary school Maggie Brady from River Ben Stephanie logi kindergarten fifth grade teacher from Ross Elementary School Barrett biky reading specialist in Shannon DOA Valley Kathy

004Brown from sento Spring Megan Lewis and from Ren Hollow Emily Deval [Applause] counselor for our secondary schools representing Central Middle Allison Moyer family and consumer science from Northeast Middle theater teacher Jack goly physical education teacher from South Middle Jess nolles from Southwest Middle Alysa Dela camera matth teacher and middle school teacher of the year and from West Middle Jenny jell reading specialist representing Central High Kristen re science from Fern Ridge Jordan noise Mack ESO teacher from from North High Trisha Frank counselor from South High Carly roach and from West High Jeff chasen social studies and also High School teacher of the year congratulations to all of our teachers of year thank you for all that you do for our young people here in Parkway next please welcome Dr Keith Marty to the podium well as

005I said over in the cafeteria um this is as Jeff said is is one of our special nights and I just want to say um in Parkway we have so many wonderful Educators and so for those of you are being recognized tonight you are very special soak it up and uh know that um you are you are valued as so many are in our district and uh keep up the great work thank you for all your good work and for you know um spouses children grandparents came night thank you so much for being here this this a great night as Jeff said and the board really appreciates all the support so again one more round of applause for our teachers well besides recognizing teachers uh this is a board of education uh recognition month and

006so the gentle the the people not just the gentleman the young the young women and the gentleman in front of me need some recognition as well uh all younger me uh and it is my pleasure to recognize this exceptional group of individuals who serve our district uh you know in a democracy there is no better example of um of a democracy and and the way we you know do business an elected Board of Education because uh this is at the local level these individuals run as we saw last night during a b candidate for because they love their Community they love children they want to do the best they can to ensure that public education and the well-being and the education of our children continues so uh we're very very proud of our board here

007in Parkway I brag about our Board of Education the colleagues and people I know all over the country um because I think uh in here in Parkway we have board members who give so much time they attend activities uh they go out of their way to ensure that they're in classrooms at school events they are outstanding stewards of taxpayer dollars and resources and they are certainly uh always concerned about what is ahead for federal and state mandates laws and issues uh these are exceptional group of people and again I I brag about them and I want to tell you a story back when during the superintendent search that we went through in the fall uh we had at a meeting uh some of the uh search firm uh individuals who came to share with the

008board the profile for the new superintendent and then they stayed on for the whole board meeting and afterwards they they they hung around they pulled me off to the site and they said you know Dr Marty uh are all your meetings like this and I said what do you mean they said well you know your board members seem to uh really like one another uh they cooperate they they seem to like you as superintendent and you all work well together and I said no this is like all our board meetings and they go like well you should be one lucky superintendent and your one lucky District to have a board that truly enjoys their work is representative understands the role and understands how they how supporting Administration and teachers is so valuable so with that

009I think they need Round of Applause so uh again on behalf of uh of the administration myself and uh certainly our community and I think I speak for our superintendent action team and I think the administrators in the room we know what we have here and we have something very very special so uh I'm I'm very very proud of our board I'm very proud to have served with 18 uh board members in my tenure in Parkway and I've had the pleasure to uh see a a board turn over because none of these individuals were here when I came but they've carried on the tradition of of Parkway the how important uh representing our community are and they have been exceptional and are continue to be exceptional and I know with a board election coming up

010uh the community will do its due diligence and making sure that we have this outstanding people on the board of education in Parkway so again congratulations board members We Salute You as a community I salute you as superintendent thank you so very very much thank [Applause] you couple final thoughts congratulations again to all of our teachers uh thank you to the members of the teacher year teacher of the year selection committee chaired by Paulo rero from Southwest Middle although I know they enjoy reading the nominations it's not an easy task ask to narrow down the search uh in the elementary middle and high school and district teachers of the year so thank you for all your efforts in doing that uh thanks again to our teachers their families administrators for joining us for this special

011recognition we'll now take a brief break and we'll resume the meeting shortly e e e check check oh he muted me well I'm I'm ready to be heard now can you hear me okay we have we have working microphones so that's excellent thank you um we will proceed with our meeting agenda uh first or next up on that that agenda is 7.0 additions Corrections Andor modifications to the agenda they include 7.01 addendum to agenda item 11.11 approval of personnel items uh next up is public comments uh we provide an opportunity each meeting for citizen comments in an effort to maintain an open respectful dialogue with our community public comment section is not the appropriate forum for addressing individually identifiable student indoor Personnel matters therefore due to privacy laws protecting students and employees comments about these

012matters should not include personally identifiable information about particular students or employees members of the public staff and students are encouraged to utilize established policies and procedures for offering suggestions or addressing concerns and complaints prior to bringing the issue before the board please be mindful that the meetings of the board including your statements at the podium are broadcast and that you are responsible for any public comments you make in MO of a public statement you may choose to subit your comments to the board in writing also due to the time constraints and the need to complete the primary responsibilities of our meeting agenda we cannot respond during the meeting so you will receive a response from us in writing we're Al always available to have an open dialogue outside of our meetings and can be reached

013by email or phone using the contact information on the parkway website uh tonight I believe we have just two uh citizens who wish to speak um so I'll call your names and uh you can join us up here at the podium first is waldi up church and each speaker will have three minutes uh to make their comments yep perfect I am a graduate of par I started at par trans I also volunte Ates at St Louis Children Hospital Rec so I stud abun andain be part of the for each cont thank you very much thank you very much next up is Dorothy s i pronounce it good evening my name is Dorothy store I am a resident of the Parkway School District and a taxpayer thank you for your commitment to our school district's mission

014of ensuring all students are capable curious caring and confident Learners who understand and respond to an Ever Changing world I am encouraged to hear that our next superintendent Dr Schneider echoed her full support for both our mission and strategic plan at the Parkway state of the district specifically our strategic plan calls for three Focus areas that will guide the district's actions student achievement equity and well-being the equity portion includes implementing a comprehensive plan to reduce disparities in Opportunities outcomes and a sense of belonging between groups of students this includes developing systemic responses in areas of curriculum diversifying candidate pools and adjusting policy and practices to promote Equitable experiences and increase positive outcome for all students as a member of we can assist and Parkways Community I am heartened to hear that the Board of Education

015and superintendent will uphold this strategic plan that was formed over a year with the input of thousands of community members through focused groups Community meetings and online forums we can assist challenges the board and super superintendent Schneider to end suspensions for kindergarten through third grade to truly bring our strategic plan to fruition thank you for all of your work in the days ahead that is sure to be challenging in this ever changing world next up I have a motion in a second to approve the agenda for the regular meeting of the board of education is scheduled for March 12th 2025 so move second all in favor I opposed motion carries 60 the next regular board meeting will take place on Wednesday Wednesday April 16th 2025 beginning at 7M here at the Parkway Welcome Center the

016board's annual organizational meeting will also take place that evening starting at 6:30 pm uh next up is 10.02 board candidate filing uh there are four candidates who have filed for the two open positions in Parkway Board of Education candidates in order of filing and as their names will appear on the ballot are and if you're here if you're candidate here in the room and uh hear your name you're welcome to stand yourself um in order on the ballot Jeffrey Spectre Mia Robinson John kilper Alo the election is Tuesday April 8th 2025 the terms of Robert Reed and Jeffrey Spectre expire in April 2025 next up is board superintendent all right I'll try to be brief um I went to the Missouri School Board Association at advocacy day in Jefferson City yesterday I'm just frustrated um

017it was there about 150 maybe 200 Schoolboard members from across the state came to Jeff City to stick up for public education and just the fact that um the majority is putting forth bills that you may at the end find a colonel we actually agree on something but the process to get there is so convoluted and um I can go in all kinds of bills that are out there right now but I'll just pick Onan for open enrollment right now and um it passed the house today so it will go to the Senate so if you wish to call your state senator it's um Senate Bill 1051 um from our lobbyists on the Schoolboard Association yesterday they said the house bill was kind of convoluted and the Senate bill is actually chaos just in terms

018of the financial pieces of it the costs over it long term how it actually could operate I think there actually is a pathway to open enrollment in Missouri but the way we're working with right now they're not talking to to Schoolboard members in the cities or in the rural areas and in some cases this legislation is going to hurt the rural areas more than will the urban areas just for transportation cost and move kids around so I encourage you to it's a lot going on legislatively at the federal and state level but U if you can take a little bit of time look at Jeff City because they're moving things through pretty well right now in general even Beyond public schools and pay attention because there's a lot happening right now it's kind of sad

019sorry about that follow that yeah uh but follow that uh something that we all attended was the joint legislative breakfast um not far after our last board meeting was uh with Parkway brockwood Pattonville and Special School District a few of our legislators were there where we got to talk about some of these issues and it's always a good event where we do get to kind of bend the ear of our local legislatures on things like this um I was also able to speak at the Spirit of Excellence award uh dinner or excuse me award night um truly an amazing night I mean the the kids that are being honored there are are amazing students amazing stewards in the community and it truly was an a inspiring night um as a parent I did attend a

020fifth grade concert for my uh the last concert I will have for that fifth grader uh in the ret tril it was amazing and then I'm going to do a little Shameless plug for my wife um she is starting a dance team at Parkway Central Middle for any of those who are interested um it'll feed into the high school and she's doing a great job and just wanted to give that little point so so um as as Mr Spectre said we did join the um attend the the legislative breakfast with um our fellow school districts as well as a few of our um legislator uh representatives and I will say I was a little saddened that we didn't have as much representation political representation of our elected officials as um I would expect um we

021are constituents of their districts and we have um a lot of a lot of um discussions that we would like to have with them in regards to public education um but other than that it was a very very well attended um meeting by the rest of the districts um I also attended the spirit of Excellence uh last month um and I've attended I don't know how at least think this was my 12th year I think um attending and it's always an amazing event um it always ends with our step team our district uh award-winning uh step team and that's always a fun event to to see as the as the last part of a celebration um and then something oh I also as a parent um attended my son's uh West High and West Middle

022band concert um which took place at principia so that all of the students could participate um it was a great event a great turnout um and then that was there was one more thing I wanted to say sorry take your time he um I don't remember now but oh I do I just want to congratulate all of our teachers again um I've said it many times that our educators are the backbone of our school systems we have amazing Educators and I appreciate everything that they do for our students every single day that's all thank you uh this gets done it sometimes because we all do similar events and I think Matt spoke more eloquently than I can about the political landscape of Missouri but I also attended that legislative breakfast and as Tiffany pointed out

023uh you the turnout's disappointing um but sort of what you'd expect from a state that spends the 50th most of any state on public education um but it's on us as Matt pointed out to kind of be advocates for ourselves and as hard as it may be uh in this political climate um I'm considering joining a dance team at Central Middle so good looking out um she'll cut you uh I also attended the spirit of excellence awards uh which I very much enjoy attending it's you know there's a political climate in this nation that's taken hold in the last few weeks uh and a lot of it is sort of anti those sort of um events and um obviously that's very well to me it's unfortunate I think it's really important that we honor students

024that have to you know that have overcome things that you know are part of communities that have traditionally um been disadvantaged and the opportunity to celebrate those kids isn't at the expense of anyone else but it's you know p on the back for some kids that have really put in the work and it's a really special night and obviously keep saying obviously and the step team performance is always great uh a few weeks ago I was emailed by a teacher at shanoa Valley uh to come uh read to her uh third grade classroom and it blows my mind that third graders want to hear from a school board member but I went and it was wonderful and it was just fun to be in a building and fun to see the happy faces and uh

025my daughter picked out the book I read so I read about uh Little Penguin pip pip uh but apparently the other people who had been invited to read brought two or three books I had to you know sort of stretch out the uh meeting by kind of doing a little Q&A with the kids about things they like about their school things that they think could improve and I got a lot of the usual answers of those questions I'm familiar with you know resource recess being longer that sort of thing but uh one of the kids I guess they'd had a fire drill the other day where they happened into the Teachers Lounge the kids didn't know that there was such a thing as a Teachers Lounge and so they um asked me if I could

026look into adding a students Lounge to S into a so we're GNA probably have to add that to the agenda because I thought was a great idea um and finally I just want to Echo my colleague thoughts uh tonight obviously the night we recognize the teachers of the year and it's you know Parkways a lot of things but it's a lot of great Educators and it's so nice to have a night to honor them and all the teachers and thank you all again for everything you did um a couple weeks ago on March 3 I attended the Special School District governing council meeting at which we elected our Special School District um representative for Parkway and I'm pleased to report that Aaron beaver will be our new director on SSD Board of Education she's a

027Claymont West Middle mom and uh her daughter and husband were actually present during the hearing which was kind of fun to get to have them see their mom in action and uh she has an occupation and genetic counseling at uh Washington University School of Medicine and is familiar with um the SSD process and the education that um they provide to our students so I'm very pleased to report Miss Aaron beaver will be our our Parkway representative on SSD board now last night I had the privilege and honor to attend the West Middle concert Orchestra um this Orchestra um if you heard them at the um the district state of the district address are just absolutely phenomenon phenomenal and they will be next week they are under the direction right now of uh Rebecca pontano she's

028been here a very long time and they have been auditioned and selected to compete in the National Orchestra Festival sponsored by the American String Teachers Association they will be going to Atlanta next week to do that and we just couldn't be more proud and really root these kiddos on there is such talent um all through Parkway but um as I said to another board member during the district address you wouldn't know this was a middle school orchestra they were so good so you know kudos to them keep it up we're very proud of you and um look forward to the outcome of of that uh competition um we also finalized the Puma cont cont ract which will um is on the agenda for approval tonight so um Mr Todd and I and uh Mr Schindler

029attended the last um Communications lab with them to to go through that process so we're pleased that that was uh finally come to uh to fruition there um we're we're in a busy time right now there's competitions going on sports events going on kids are taking tests exams act basketball games were in the big Prime I mean you could just think of all the millions of things that are going on in Parkway I couldn't be more proud of this District right now and um looking forward to some exciting times in our transition with our new superintendency um that's pretty much it um the only thing that I would say about the legislative matters I too attended the breakfast um we just got to keep plugging on and we need the help of our of our

030um of our community to get hold of our legislators um and I I think it was enlightening to the ones that were there at our breakfast to hear from board members and from District administrators just how much and what kind of impact their decisions are having negatively on our school districts and the more we can get that message out not in a complaining whining manner but in a collaborative way of you know let us work together to come up with a better idea or a different way not one that has such negative ramifications for not just our our our district financially but our students too I mean this whole idea of open enrollment having kids being you know travel Great Lengths and distances to get to school every day is just um there we have

031to come up with a different way to address what whatever the desires of the governor and these legislators are so we can only do that through communication collaboration so we will continue to pound on their doors we will continue to send the emails we will continue to educate ourselves uh because it's it's important and it's necessary that we do that and we we just need to keep plugging on so that's uh I I attended Orchestra uh events last week uh actually the all district Orchestra uh concert last week at uh St Lou Family Arena Dr Beckner and I were there waving the parkway flag and uh just as Debbie mentioned about the concert she went to just an amazing group of musicians uh I didn't have to tune any violins this year so that was

032that was relaxing um so I could just sit there and and enjoy the music and it was it was delightful um also want to thank the League of Women Voters who uh somebody mentioned uh was here uh last night uh they they every year they conduct a a very professional and thorough uh evaluation or panel uh where the public can ask questions of each of the candidates and uh all the candidates did great so we have four really good candidates this year which we're all thankful for uh then uh I will mention that uh Dr Schneider has been in the district several times since last board meeting uh I met with her over the weekend I know uh she's been in District buildings uh the beginning part of this week and she is more committed

033than ever uh to be present uh as much as she can during this transition period going forward so I know uh Dr Marty spent quite a bit of time with her U just continuing to chip away at bringing her up to speed before she really hits the ground running this summer um and then uh the last thing I have on my list uh there were a lot uh probably 60 nominations for pillars of Parkway uh this year pillar of Parkway is an award that's given out each year to a select group usually four five six seven uh people uh who are true pillars of the parkway Community uh and it's my pleasure to announce that Dr Marty was the recipient of one of those pillar this year so congratulations [Applause] thank you very much and

034I I I'm quite honored uh I've sat through a lot of appreciation nights because that's where we'll have further discussion but uh we have so many people in this District that are have been honored and who get nominated and so I'm very thankful and very appreciative of the recognition so thank you so much thank you uh speaking of the I know Matt started it but uh one of the one of the messages that I'm trying to pass on and anny Dickerson is kind of our legislative lays on from the communication Department when we talk to legislators I think that so much of uh what is going on in Jeff City is this idea that we have to have more choice and that's kind of the purpose of open enrollment and one of the things that

035and I know we're a unique District in many respects but one of my messages constantly is uh leave us alone because I think we can do Choice internally we don't have to necessarily send children you know I think one of the the ideas is well we have to have open en rollment so children parents have Choice well um I think Pary we're pretty fortunate to have some choices within our schools and curriculum and activities and we can do more and we can continually need to look to do more so that's been kind of a theme so for any of you who want to think about how you what kind of message you can send to legislators coming from Parkway I think is that I think we've done a good job over years to try to

036think differently about education we have personalized learning we have spark we have a number of things and again we could do a lot more but I think uh the idea that you have to go somewhere else uh is is sometimes an Indy message because you can go somewhere else you might just get the same thing you know just drive down the road and uh so I think we we really can can really use that as a theme if you're looking to how do I communicate with legislators talk about the good things we got going in Parkway and the good tradition we have and the good job we do to make sure that all our students are taken care of um I have been really uh talk about all lot activities going on it wasn't mentioned

037but I know some of you have been attending I think I attended three high school musicals in the last couple weeks the latest at West high school did um um Adams Family over the weekend and again our students this is they just do a great job we heard about the the north I was at the North uh and also at Central High School so wonderful job by all the by our our theater groups in our in our high schools at this time of year uh I was at the National Conference last week and uh one of the General Sessions started with uh our North High School choir last year they came uh our association came and did a recording and that was featured there was four uh choirs nationally that were featured as an opening

038and talking about the importance of uh Fine Arts and and music in particular in our schools and our North choir was one of the features so uh we was thrilled to and and but to be recognized uh with all the people in the net General Session that Parkway was recognized as as one of the contributors uh I couple of Saturday Saturday a couple weekends ago I attended uh the elementary State Elementary administrators Association uh uh conference and and their special banquet and jod Oliver from Henry uh was the St Louis area um principal of the air Elementary principal of the air uh she was a group of 11 that were honored that night and it was great to be there and and be part of her recognition we've had a lot of uh prin warier

039our own Nathan Burch was State Elementary principal year last year and Nathan spoke and did a wonderful job in terms of an address to inspire uh his honores and and all but all of us to support the good work that's going on in elementary schools I have spent time with Dr Schneider both here and also at the national she was at the National Conference and I have to tell you she is getting excited uh really is getting excited as as Jeff said to to get here in Parkway and we'll stay in communication and continue the transition um you know a couple other things I would just say is I think maybe maybe I should knock on W saying this but uh maybe we're Beyond some the weather now and consider started looking to Spring shouldn't

040Jinx oursel but uh I know Dr bogus is hoping that they we're done uh but uh I think we've had a rough winter and I really again want to keep thanking our staff and our families and our students for uh putting up with some of the you know the changes we had to deal with uh through the last couple months um I would just also that Jeff and Debbie and I attended a meeting recently with our Police and Fire Chiefs we are so fortunate to have so much support uh from our uh from our law enforcement from our fire departments here in in Parkway and I think we uh were told that again they're they're going to continue that good work with certainly the new new superintendent and continue to work with our our Administration

041um I believe that is oh somebody did somebody attend South uh s Olympics last week South High School just want to recognize that they had their I was out town and Special Olympics but again uh I know West is is coming up all all our high schools do Special Olympics and either the fall or winter and North will do theirs in the spring so always is a great great time so that's it thank you thanks so much next up is our consent agenda we all had an opportunity to review that so we have a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented in the March 12th 2025 so second to be pull closed all in favor any opposed any exensions motion carries 6 z uh we have no action items tonight uh however we do

042have some policy reviews um so I'd like to welcome Dr Greg Ma and it looks like maybe Dr Kevin Beckner toh join us if there are uh any questions we'll we'll call on Dr May later maybe and Dr Greg W so good evening good evening uh do not have necessarily presentation but an opportunity for the board if you have any questions regarding uh the proposed jg- r1. BP lot of letters there um around our student discipline and by Tech technicality it is the technology misconduct uh item number two the entire policy is about 12 Pages printed so in the memo that I sent to the board um we only gave the small snippet of the part that we are proposing a change to around cell phone and personal technology use so just open the board

043for questions got first off thank you for putting this out I I know that was a lot of work and a lot of input one question I have from an elementary middle school perspective uh the the use of wearable technology what does that look like cuz I've you know I know I've got an Apple Watch but there are some watches that don't have cell phone or texting ability what does that look like in practicality from a wearable technology yeah that's right that that's actually been a pretty deep conversation because we in some of the conversations having discussion first of all around the policy it's it's giving some overarching umbrella language uh and number one we want to make sure that as we're working with our principles at each level they're going to be consistent at

044the elementary level we're going to have consistency around um uh around the consequences for first violation second violation third violation Middle School the same and third and for high school similar um the conversation around watches specifically smart watches it's not listed as smart watches but that would be under personal um technology devices because that could change it could be the new The Meta uh Rayband cool sunglasses that my neighbor has those are actually pretty pretty sweet but um it could be something else for no plug I'm not sponsored by um but these look good too um they're old school but you you could have all different types of things what we want to do is is is to protect that instructional time and the distractions that are happening within the classroom and within the schools

045so what the middle schools and elementary schools are looking at And discussing is at the elementary school is actually not having those and and having them on during the time of school at the middle school they might be able to have them on but not be able to utilize them for the use of the cellular technology or the Wi-Fi technology to connect with other other people that's going to be a challenge it's going to be a challenge on how do you Monitor and use that our main goal is the cell phone use is really what's at rampant at those a at the ages that we're seen in the schools so that's further discussion needed on how we're going to to do that but the smart watches at elementary is actually a major concern that our

046principles are saying and seeing uh not as much on the cell phone so there's conversations that's happening in the elementary level that we will we will keep you informed on how that's going to look this policy gives some guidance but they're going to come up with the the more direct procedures and what that would look like we'll make sure we communicate that effectively to parents and the student handbooks that come out this summer um from there it'll be very clear on how and what that looks like by the nuances that you're asking thank you you're welcome just a quick follow up to that so with the smart watches in elementary school are there are there already issues that we're seeing with the smart watches according to our our our our admin rators and teachers in

047the classroom and from what we saw through survey data and and some discussions we've had they are seeing that that our elementary age especially as kids are getting older that they're coming in with smart watches that are able to connect to the Internet or to Cellular and getting actually calls and texts from their parents without a cell phone on them and in fact a little brief story this is just a oneoff uh uh a delivery came at an elementary school most recently to student that contacted their parent through their smartwatch to bring them lunch um yeah I mean funny kind of but you know that is a distraction and and yet those are some of the things that we're trying to work through it was a parent not like door Dash or something my no

048it was it was a parent maybe also door Dash I don't know good question Mr szer yes M um my question well first of all I had submitted some questions ahead of this meeting so thank you very much for um Dr be helped also we we we both kind of T because it crossed over I would say I'm I'm working on this policy revision side of this on the discipline side working with Dr Wagner and Dr Beckner and a team of Educators and many others have have worked on the study as well as a focus group with High School uh Educators most recently um and then we met with uh principles in the last week to kind of go through some very specific pieces on how we're going to work through um uh consistent um

049follow through and proceed procedures on following this these policies if the board approves them so that's that's somewhat of my question my other question are we developing a separate cell phone policy or is all of this going to be wrapped into just the student discipline policy correct this discipline policy only correct this so what what you're asking let me let me make sure I'm I'm gathering this correctly are we writing a separate cell phone policy that is not been the direction that we are headed our discipline policies are what we have as a district that guides us that is is this jg-1 which is from assault to fighting to um all kinds of different things that could happen within a school to disrespectful speech the things that Dr Wagner and I get to work through

050with administrators uh um on time to time because sometimes students may accidentally make mistakes at school and we have to work through those um so we have to have a clear policy on School discipline and how we react to those things um and then we're working through just like we do in those areas we work out a student there's a student handbook that gives guidance to principles that communicate to our families kind of here's exactly what this is going to look like in our schools and we're trying to make that a very consistent thing but that would not be a board policy that would be how we are implementing the policy in the schools so more procedures more procedures that's correct that's right and just one more clarifying question on on the grid that you

051sent us in your explanation on because I I was concerned with how harsh right the the discipline seemed as it was currently worded um and now we we have kind of a stepped first depend second third fourth is that is that what's ultimately going to be proposed or are we still looking as what was originally sent to us to consider right so within even currently on I'm use other policies as kind of an example other policies give administrators kind of a overarching umbrella of here's what you can do within the policy and within what laws kind of guidelines that msba kind of gives us to be able to utilize under that that doesn't mean that we go jump straight to uh 180 day suspension or an expulsion for for instance um second or third offense

052um but what it does it gives the opportunity to say we can create procedures underneath this for in instance in high school what we sent in the in the memo something like confiscation and the student gets it has it gets turned into the the office at the end of the day they can they can get it back on the second offense it could be turned into the office at the beginning of the day they get it back at the end of the day those would all be consequences and going down that list but let's say in a situation on a board if it's written directly in board policy if that's not working for for the schools and we need to Pivot and change we would then have to come to the board and say hey

053we now need to make some procedural changes every single time but having an overarching policy that gives us kind of a menu of things that we can fall underneath allows us to be able to make and pivot those changes as needed um and that's how all of our policies are are fairly written around student discipline so but we want to I'm sorry we want to make sure it's consistent and the principles are in agreement to do that but as it's currently written in the policy so this grid this chart that for SE third fourth right that would that would be under procedures that's right not the actual discipline policy correct and I can understand I know you shared some questions and and concern if the board it is your purview to say Greg we want

054to go want to go back and we're not comfortable with ISS being on a first choice that we could do that or expulsion or 180 we can revise and come back and say we take those off the list um for subsequent offenses um that is currently the way technology misuse number two is written in policy right now as msba as we did the J policies several years ago um had recommended um but if that's what the board would like us to remove that we would be able to do so what I would recommend though is to still keep those first offense and subsequent offenses in policy as general because then we can work it procedurally with the principles so we can have effective consequences to change Behavior versus having to Every Time come back to

055the board if we needed to um potentially change how we are uh effectively using those consequences so we're talking about procedures um will they be consistent from building to building yes that is what we are that is what we're communicating with principles and they're in agreement to do so because that's my biggest concern with our the way our discipline policies are right now um is that they're not necessarily very consistent building to building and what one teacher or principal might consider a minor offense another would consider a major off so that student at a different building could be getting a much harsher discipline recommendation than at another building that's right and I think it's important that we do this with Fidelity that in every classroom the expectations are set and that the the procedures are

056clear from high school to high school it's the same and from middle school to middle school is the same and Elementary to Elementary is the same and that's what we're we're we're working towards and that those discussions and our principles have had really robust discussions along with um a high school team that came together with uh teachers and input that I think we we we were able to tackle that and and it is something that is a little bit different within Parkway a lot of times it's been at the building level autonomy to make some of those decisions but something like this and a big change within our district it's essential that we get this right and that we've taken this time over this year to do get to this point and to have that

057consistency through the levels and building to building and again High School Middle School Elementary the consistency at those three levels I do want to commend you all for taking so much time and and thought in surveying the public teachers parents students um looking at other districts and their practices around the region and the country um you know I I I feel confident that we're moving in the right direction because youve put so much effort and so much time into doing this so that that speaks volumes to me uh I did want to I wanted to ask a couple of things one we've been talking we've been telling students for the better part of seven eight nine years bring your devices we're going to use them in class and and we we've encouraged the use of

058devices how are we going to now make that shift in a way that that students aren't taken back by by uh you know some of some of our our changeing Direction uh I think that's a that's going to be a good question uh that uh is a challenge for us it's we're going to need to communicate the importance of the learning that's happening in the school we're we are removing personal electronic devices our students all have depending upon the level our Chromebooks and I can let Dr Beckner kind of speak towards the curriculum side of the shift um but I do believe that that that is that is something that we need to challenge and face but I I also think that in the first couple months there's going to be some growing pains with

059this um but I also know some other school districts that have gone through it if done with Fidelity they've seen on the back end of this a lot more engagement in the classroom um and and um I think there's a lot of positives but Dr Beckner I think is a good time to segue over over I'll be close seconds to answer more questions yeah it's an excellent question of course as you noted we are onetoone with Chromebooks with our students in the classroom and our Chromebooks could do many almost all of the things that our students need to do in the classroom U as far as the curricular side of it there are still the policy does still allow for exceptions for specific academic usage an example would just be if I'm a journalism student

060and I'm doing interview and maybe I'm recording that interview on my phone or I'm taking pictures that would still be something that we would allow we' say you can't carry a Chromebook around it and do that in any reasonable sort of way or our spark students who might actually be traveling frequently to go meet with their business and industry Partners so there will be limited exceptions such as that but for the most part our crumbl can do those things that that we need our students to do on a daily basis as far as communicating and how we make that change uh we did include our secondary students in the survey data uh I believe the board has seen that survey data and we recognize that our students don't particularly like having their devices restricted uh

061which is not much of a surprise which is actually what has gotten us to this point is they don't want to be away from their devices and because they they know all uh all the things that they do on those on a daily basis but including them on the survey has communicated to them this is coming I have my own high school student who's told me dad I don't like this I understand but this is the thing we need to do to make sure we're taking care of our kids their well-being allowing them to remain focused in class responding to our you know teachers concerns about distraction so that they can stay focused so they can build their social interactions now even our teachers who said look I have this well-managed in my class is

062not a problem but I'm really concerned about our students wellbeing yeah so are we we want to make sure we respond to that so we've already brought our students into that communication just even through the survey but we will have to communicate communicate communicate which is why I'm really grateful for our Communications team and all the great work that they've done lining out uh I know I shared some of that with the board through the questions that you asked earlier this week um but that Communications plan is extensive because we need to make sure that they know what's coming that they're not surprised that we are very clear about what the expectations are that we're very clear about those procedures so that before students return in the fall they have a really strong understanding of

063what's going to be expected and that families know that as well so that we can all be on the same page and support our students and our teachers in this effort and this is sort of a followup to what is going to um obviously we're going to have building um every building is sort of in in elementary middle have the same standards I guess a challenge I could see is an individual classroom teacher saying you know what it's fine um and looking at okay how does that impact the other students that don't have that teacher it's a challenge I see I don't know if there is an Avenue to try and check things like that but it's just a challenge I could see where certain teachers within a building would allow it without any consequence

064and there are others who would is there any way you know we're looking forward looking forward on a way to maybe help yeah I won't name the district but uh just two weeks ago Mo McCracken our president of the PNA and I had a chance to visit with another District that's about three years down this road and they were very candid about the conversations they have to have with staff to say this is a universal and when you don't follow that Universal it impacts everybody else in this building uh one of the assistant principal said very openly this is a teacher that I've had to have multiple conversations with but we have to set that tone and expectation that we are in this together or it doesn't work and that doesn't mean that everyone will

065automatically do it but we have to be consistent of following up with those things and making sure that we have those conversations with individuals that aren't following it um because as soon as yeah you have why can't you be cool like Mr Spectre down the hall that's going to really impact everybody else right and and so yeah we know that that's going to be certainly a piece of it this particular District like I said three years in said uh cell phone missuse is still our number one discipline problem in the school so just having the policy isn't going to automatically fix it because our students have become so accustomed to having their phones with them frequently checking them all the time responding to other people that for many of them it's it's become a habit

066right just I pick up my phone I know I'm guilty of it I'm sure some of you are guilty of it where I we just get these routines I pick up my phone I start checking whatever so we still have to certainly Train everybody that doesn't just include the students it includes the administrators the teachers that we're all being consistent in enforcement and making sure that if if we're not doing that our students are going to slide back into the patterns that they've already developed and we'll be right back where we have been and certainly we don't want that um and this I'll touch on discipline and maybe this isn't exactly the right you know policy perspective to ask the question but you know if you were to survey these Le the students this part

067of it but you're going to survey teachers and parents and say if you did want cell phones in a building why would you want them I'm guessing the biggest answers would be you know so I can message or call my kid if there's a safety issue or a you know ride home issue but I'm guessing almost none of them would say I want my kid to be able to go on Snapchat and Facebook and Instagram while they're at school and so what I'm wondering is if other districts have any policies to touch on not just phone use but what the phone is being used for as far as as you know phones are going to be in our buildings but can we legislate out the use of social media and from a technology point of

068view I think Twitter is blocked by Parkway Wireless it is it possible to block all these platforms and Is it feasible is it something that's even considered don't track the well just because as you said when we have a disciplinary hearing almost every single one of these issues stems from somebody doing something stupid on social media and it causing A disruption so you go back to 10 years and that was a mode of control is blocking in general social media on the parkway Network the issue is in those 10 years everything's moved off of our Network so we actually see fewer in fewer infractions in my opinion on our Network most of it is happening on personal devices on personal cell phone plans um that never never touches our Network that we could Implement any

069sort of protection against so right mine well I guom around and and now here I am I am not an attorney this is for the people online and anybody else wondering and the attorney that asked the question um when we have a cell phone infraction what we don't want to get into is opening up the phone and digging around of why they're on it and getting into now a a speech and a and a personal property portion of this and that's actually why this policy says the use or display of cell phones having it out is actually would be a violation because we're not going to say are you using it or not having it out and being on display because our students are very good I have three daughters they're extremely good at dinner

070somehow they're looking down they don't have their phone I promise you they do but they're they it was out right like it that's the display because I I'm not going to go and look for a time stamp stamp of a uh Instagram post or a cell phone or text message or uh those types of things like that that becomes intrusive now it Mak sense you can somehow cut it off which I thought you could since I can't ever go on I try to go on Twitter our buildings but if you can't do it I I get what you're saying that's a nonstarter yeah I mean I think these are great questions not and I think for anyone that's going to watch this because I know that's what people are also wondering is why can't we

071just limit these things and not limit all of it because parents are going to wonder if there's an emergency well if there's an emergency we we we could contact a school building and we're going to have to work with school buildings on how if there's something that's going on how we going to to to think 20 years ago how did we communicate in the classrooms and get things out that's other challenges that we're going to face if that's the the mode of operation that we need to move forward with I was just going to ask I know we have some students who use their phone or some type of electronic device to monitor uh personal health situations whether it's diabetes or uh different things how are we going to support those students in in in

072addition to that how are we going to help other students understand why a particular student might have a device out when you're not supposed to right so tackle and I'm I want to tackle the first question I might need you to repeat the second part of that uh the first part is under federal law protects students who would have a medical plan an IEP or 504 that has this written in um Americans with Disability Act people that have personal devices to be able to communicate those things are very very essential we want to make sure everyone has access to what they need for access to their education and that would be written into their education plan or a medical plan uh that way so that is something that we would make sure uh those teachers

073of course would know the people in the hallways would know what those students have access to so um those are very uh few uh that would be able to have that um but if that's written in those plans we would be able to uh ensure those students have access to what they need absolutely and then the second question Mr well really just if you know if Joey pulls out his phone to check his blood sugar level and and 20 other kids in the class say you know why does he get to have his phone right well we you got to protect the the privacy of the still we would we we we really wouldn't be able to say it's because he has diabetes we would we would say well each student has we would we

074would have to give that teacher some some very very uh language to be able to utilize in that and um that's something that we would be able to come up with I want to give that language now it be incorrect but that's something we would have to to help those teachers with um can you give us some examples and this may need to go to Greg Wagner but so under the new policy it's proposed we're g to we're going to say when elementary and middle schoolers can or cannot use their phones and then a second paragraph about the high school kids and in each of these um in all these cases is a first offense could be in school suspension and then a subsequent offense which could be their only their second time could be

075up to 180 days out of school suspension or an expulsion yeah under what circumstances would a kindergartener get an in school suspension or an expulsion for using their or bringing it out once or twice that gotta be tough I mean they wouldn't too harsh this is where I'm think they wouldn't I can answer that they wouldn't they wouldn't because we're what and and that is where in here we may need to from your direction as a board look at and and strike through that in school suspension on the first offense or that expulsion piece on that subsequent offense there could be situations of which I I can't propose off off hand to where something major A disruption has occurred because that student has that cell phone or something else has has caused mass panic because

076of something that is occurred with with their phone of which we we are now going to need to react past what is currently in a confiscation situation and that is what the concern would be and to not know what that exact situation could look like or a uh some kind of hacking situation or some kind of something else that ties back into that use in that classroom gives us that leeway in some some forms of Senses but there's other policies that we could tie that into as well so there's this both and here that I'm talk I'm not trying to talk out both my sides of my mouth but it would be comfortable to me if we had if we did remove part of that at the board's discretion this is what msba as far

077as the Missouri School Board Association language was little small tweaks I made just with the word student conferencing from before um from the previous policy that we had already already approved that's why I didn't make any changes before I think you kind of answer I mean any major disruption I think would probably fall into another bucket of the disciplinary policy disruptive speech um even yeah and so I I mean to Debbie's point if we did take out the suspension you know assuming there aren't I mean we could have a brainstorming of of what potentially couldn't fall into the other buckets that um but I do understand what Debbie saying there um as long as we are comfortable that that if something severe were to happen there is another Avenue to potentially discipline if needed um

078I mean that would make a little bit of sense Greg one of the things that uh i i people ask is where are students going to be able to store their cell phones and I know there's been some discussion Kevin wants to respond as well so uh like Dr mat mentioned we brought together a group of Educators group uh particularly at the high school level group of high school teachers administrators uh principes to really walk through the exact how will this work so we have while we're not ready to bring forward an exact uh here's the plan what we are bringing forward uh to our teachers and our principal brought forward actually uh on act day in the afternoon after students left yesterday was that we would have a place in the classroom where students

079would store their device at high school when they come into the classroom that would become part of the expectation you walk in your room you store your device uh we have visited other schools who have that in place and in fact if you've been walking through many of our high schools a lot of our individual teachers are already doing that so for many of them that is not a new practice but to make that consistent across our schools so that our students can learn that habit of I walk in the class I put in my phone I walk in the class I put up my phone um that's what we're working towards so like I said we've just been getting feedback on that for the first time yesterday uh and we need to get our

080principles back together and collect that feedback and make sure that we've got that but that is what we're moving towards is something where we would have a consistent practice and we heard uh in visiting some other schools that do that a lot of benefits of doing so um the real challenge we have and and I worked with that group of teachers the first thing we did was actually do a procon on off and Away meaning you just have to have it away somewhere versus having it stored somewhere in the classroom and after making that list we saw that there's pros and cons to both no question you but there's a lot more Cons with just off on the way approach because a student could have off off and the way in their pocket then they

081go use the restroom and all of a sudden you know they're texting about what they want to do you know we I know you as the board have heard uh discipline incidents where you know students plan a fight with their phone in the bathroom like we want to avoid that kind of behavior and having it off in away or I'm sorry having it stored in the classroom place they can see it they know where it is when they come in they have a standard procedure you know when they leave they pick it up and they they just get used to that approach other districts that are doing that um have reported that they've had success with that but it does take a there's a learning curve for sure so that's Dr Marty to the to

082that question of what's the storage piece um we're not ready to say that's for sure what we're doing but that is what we have been proposing to our teachers and getting feedback on I just have one last question I promise um are are cell phones permitted on the school buses the way that this reads it says including AAL and I wasn't under Elementary that is a great question that we're discussing with the principles we need to make sure there's consistency within that and in fact right now some schools do not allow them on the school buses and some schools currently do um and so uh that is in discussion of what that is as far as the way this policy is written that arrival is that arrival on the bus or is it and and

083on the way home or is that arrival at school in the school times and that is something that we again we'll we'll need to finalize what that determination is but this language either way would work it has to be consistent within those procedures and communicated to the students and communicated to the to the families one thing I will say to that you know I know we have been exploring GPS on the buses um I know parents do use those devices to help see when their kid does a school so until I think we are on the GPS on all the buses maybe that's something we kind of look at because I know that is a tool the parents use to make sure their kids get to school on time and and where they are so

084just something to think about from a bus perspective and to that that point there was a perfect example right in front of my house yesterday there was a situation um between a school bus and a concrete truck and nobody was going in in either either way and a student got off a bus and the parent came to pick the student up because we didn't know how long that school bus was G to be stuck by a concrete bus or by a concrete truck so um that's that's an example of it would seem appropriate that somebody's got somewhere to be right and it can be hard to manage for the drivers with a lot of the other things that are going on as well is what we're intending this policy to be is the protection of

085that class time and that school time and so but this is just a discussion of just being transparent some schools say no on buses some schools say yes so there's some more discussion in and pieces that are on there I I I I've written down some of your comments of of what the board may prefer and and we'll talk with our Administration about that as well so I'm sorry I have one one more question then that's it for both of you and it's going back to the smart watches because I don't have any elementary students anymore so I wasn't really focused on smart watches but I do have friends who have elementary students who instead of getting their kids cell phones they got them watches for the same reason to be able to to know

086where they are because they don't they don't feel that their child is ready to have a cell phone so if the child is taking well one how do you expect a kindergarten first grader or a second grader to take off their watch every day and then put it back on every afternoon the same way for the first thousand years we all you know we've never I've I'm sorry kids the way some of these smart watches are for the little ones they're not easy to take off they're they're designed so that they don't come off I know I got through kindergarten without a smartwatch I feel like it's possible yes but but we also didn't have GPS and all this other I think I think the conversation we're having with Elementary administrators is definitely one that

087we're going to need to talk through what those challenges may be and those face what they'll face um in in their procedures or what that may be and I and I can't speak to how hard it is for a kindergartener I was a high school teacher uh and principal and but when I'm at the elementary schools I think that they're capable to be able to take something off and put it in their cubby or put it in their pocket someplace and put store it away at the same time I also see them trying to put their crayons away and it's also very difficult too so uh I uh I I I will let those experts uh help lead that discussion but we will come back and keep the board informed on where we're at and

088those those pieces you know among the uh legislation Matt you were talking about I think there the legislature is dealing with cell phone at the at the state level and particularly bills are pending that would in some fashion Outlaw but I would imagine it's still going to be up to the local I can't imagine them getting into the detail we're talking about here it's mostly to have a policy in place yeah yes yeah and so I think it would so I mean I think this work is is significant because whatever legislature might do or not do it's still going to be up to us to certainly administer it Kevin looks like he has a comment feed into school choice the kids will pick the school where they can use their phone just wanted to make

089one more comment on this this is exactly why communication is so important that we have to make sure we're really clear with those families who you know I send my child to school with a smartwatch in elementary school what's what are we going to expect what do we need to plan for is it when we're like I need to attach it to their backpack at the beginning of the day so I know that they then have it on the bus like those are the things these are new behaviors that we have to train people because our current policy has allowed it to be well everybody has just created their own patterns of behavior and now we're trying to say actually we need to behave differently so we have to be really thoughtful about how we

090communicate with our families about that because we recognize that there are a lot of valid reasons you might want your Elementary child to have their Smartwatch so that you know where they are that they arrived safely or that they got to so and so's house or certainly understand all that stuff we're not trying to take that away at all we just want to eliminate those distractions in the classroom and now it's about how do we how do we do that in a way that's going to be as least disruptive and as smooth as possible and we're going to have to just really communicate about that with our families so that everybody's on that same page and and and speaking of communication I mean why are we doing this we we want our students to have

091uh an opportunity to learn effectively in the classroom and for teachers to be free of uh you know having some of their students be distracted so I mean we're back to what why the why is we want our students to have an experience in the classroom where they're truly free of all these other things that could be interfering with their learning right I mean that's kind of the and so I think we have to educate um parents about this and know and parents may have some other attitudes you know the world we live in is who knows what we'll be dealing with in the next five to 10 years I think somebody mentioned that already so I think we we have to continually come back what what are we what's really the objective here uh

092we anti- cell phone no we're but we want to have students have the best opportuni so a rich curriculum and our Rich opportunity in school can be achieved mine's kind of a last question really I'll say um had a lot of those I had one yeah um with the way I read the policy currently does not apply to the school board during board meetings so I will recommend I will recommend at the first meeting we have the first meeting we have in the fall we have little pouches right back there and we all come in at least for the first meeting put all our cell phones in the pouch I think Mr Seltzer texted me to wrap this up that's what I saw on my SmartWatch so yeah um no thank you does that mean

093no one no board members can watch games know how are we going to make comments to each other just like the kids we can certainly be great examples for our students I like that that's actually so that was that was one policy of the four that we have to review do any board members have questions on the other policies good I did look at them and I thank you all again very much thank you uh okay next up uh is another favorite uh aspect of board meetings of mine that's when Mike seppy comes to visit us uh so welcome Mike the director of Parkway Rockwood Community Education good evening thank you for that introduction um good evening members of the board Dr Marty Miss Stover um this too was one of my favorite nights of

094the year because it's an opportunity to come and talk about um all the great things that a whole bunch of people besides me get to do are working really hard to do every day to bring opportunities and experiences to Parkway families and so um before I get started just a couple things um I do want to take an opportunity uh Dr Marty mentioned at the beginning of the meeting this being the Schoolboard recognition month um we share that recognition and appreciation in community ed for the school board here in Parkway um we can't do what we do without your ongoing support and for that we're very appreciative so thank you so much um I I also just want to um thank a group because again I'm going to share all great things that are happening

095in community ed um there's a lot of people involved uh and making that happen and three of them are here tonight oh two one she stepped out there she is over there um these are the current uh members of what we call Our Community Ed leadership team so these are the folks that help guide um all the three to 400 staff members a year that provide all these experiences for patrons so I'm I'm I appreciate all their work as well okay so let's kind of jump into this here every year I have to remember how this works so apologize if I take a second is on the which one the green one oh that makes sense okay here we go um so some of these slides uh if you have seen this um presentation before

096there's a lot of similarities just because I think the the it is important to reiterate every year the why and the how and the what uh that we do so on this slide I just want to call attention to two things um this is year 11 of the partnership hard to believe but here we are in year 11 already um very excited about that and then throughout the presentation tonight I've added kind of down in the lower right hand side I thought it would be interesting just so you could see a variety of different things that happen throughout the year whether it's uh youth families or adults uh so these are just highlighting some of the programs that we have and offer to the community um on this slide I just want to call attention

097again this is kind of the why and it's really really the first bullet point is the why because um the partnership what what community ed is about and what the partnership has allowed us to do is to provide enhanced and expanded opportunities for patrons and so in the next few slides as we talk about all the great things that are happening I can say with certainty um that the quality the the value the extent to which we do these things have been enhanced because of the partnership which translates in in my opinion to better experiences for the patrons um lots of numbers on here won't go through all them just want to call out a few things um so as a reminder when we look at the numbers so this is uh if we look

098at that top um uh uh line there that shows us all of last fiscal year how many seats were filled seats are not Unique Individuals seats are seats filled so I always give the example um if I sign up for a venture club for the entire school year it's one seat if I take six sessions of swim lessons in a row even though I'm the same child it's six seats because I'm paying for each seat uh you'll recall that Community yet is a self-funded program so no District taxpayer dollars are involved um all of our costs uh associated with operating the programs are born through fees charged to the program participants um I do want to highlight you will see a little bit of a drop from fi23 to 24 and this kind of comes

099into play with the total seats filled concept that second um asteris underneath really explains what happen um you may recall that we have a a partnership with Missouri state parks to operate an outdoor education center located inside Baer State Park um towards the end of fy20 um in November let me think backwards here November of 23 um we had our uh person who runs that facility left um and and it took quite a while to replace that person so as part of that we kind of had a uh a pause if you will in a lot of our programming and so um just as an example is Not Unusual to have a group come out and with 70 kids and stay for three or four nights well every day those 70 uh participants are counted

100so that's really 210 seats over three days so that number of 5,000 that you see here adds up very quickly when we're talking about the way that the state requires us to count attendances by person by day not by how many people come in a group regardless of how long they stay so that number is a little scarier than it looks on the flip side what I can tell you is that things are going very well we have um fully staffed that facility we have we have an outstanding person um our schedule for this spring is packed and we are really strong for summer so you are going to see that number change as we uh review next year in fy2 um I'll just call attention I'm going to I'm going to break these out

101a little bit more but uh I know an important number that you like to always see is how Adventure Club is doing in Parkway and so we do want to call attention here that we are up this was as of March 1st um almost 200 uh children uh currently active in the program I'm going to talk a little bit more about that in an upcoming slide about how we've gotten there um so excited um to see these numbers um really great things are happening and again we're filling you know over 40,000 seats per year with you families and adults coming choosing to spend their discretionary dollars for these experiences so we're appreciative of that okay so Adventure Club weight list this is always something um that depending on the year you remember I have stood

102up here and said we have really long wait lists I am so pleased to tell you and this is my 19th year doing this position um I cannot think of a year where we've had a better result with getting kids into a venture Club than this year um and it's really due to a lot of factors but mostly the hard work of these guys and all the staff behind them um and so when you look at Parkway Venture Club again as of March 1st um we have approved almost 98% of all contracts um that have this is school year before and after care um that of Interest Who want to be in the program um and then you'll just see the comparison Rockwood is very similar number and so why is that happening what's different

103this year I can tell you that we have spent countless hours um trying to figure out it all comes down to Staffing how can we get more staff in to alleviate families off the weight list more quickly and so the combination of bullet points that you see there is how this is happening we are having really good progress with hiring this year um we've raised the entry point uh our our um lowest level position in Venture Club is now $15 an hour um but we're using a lot of new tools for communicating that we have openings and I won't read them all there but you can kind of see all the various ways that we're getting the word out about what we do that has resulted in I just looked this morning we have um

104our first thing that we do because sometimes a lot of the people that work for Venture Club um these are very part-time jobs and so um sometimes through a school district when you apply the application is designed for a full-time teacher so it a while right and so um we've created a new system where we have a very simple um it's a job form very similar to Google form um we ask people to fill that out first so everything we do guides them to this form they give us some basic information and then we call and talk to them about everything before they even go through that whole step and we're seeing a lot of um good progress by kind of eliminating that barrier up front until we know that they are interested as are

105we do we ask them to go through all those steps and so um we have received Barn near um 700 of these job forms this year so far people who have expressed interest in working uh for a venture club now what I will tell you is that number is fantastic but when you look at all of those um Avenues by which we promote the capture rate's quite low and it's not unusual we're not doing anything we're not worse than anyone else but if we're getting 15% of those coming through the door ultimately to work for us that's really good we're actually tracking all this this year we're trying to find out where we're losing them in the process from the time they um submit the job form then they come to an interview then do

106they fill out the application then do they actually start work so we're actually doing tracking we're going to have data and see exactly where we're losing them to see if we can maybe make some of those other steps more efficient to try to get more people into the program but again we're at about a 15% capture rate so what that tells us is let's just say we need a 100 new staff every year for a venture Club well then we can work backwards and equate that to well how many job forms do we need to get if we think we're getting 15% capture rate so then we can start looking at we ask people one of the questions every time is how' you hear about us so we're finding out where they're coming from and

107then we could put more time energy and resources to those Avenues to try to get more it's working as I mentioned I've not seen these numbers in 19 years it's really we're having really great success with Staffing and Adventure Club this year okay so uh next up I always like this slide every time I get a chance to talk about community that I do this because I think it tells such a story so as we stand here today uh March 12th there are over 2 200 people participating in a community program across Parkway in Rockwood a lot of that is a venture Club of course um but when we look at uh the breakdown of those participants um our youngest uh today is eight months old taking an infant swimming class and then our oldest

108I I love this uh we have an 88y old doing aquaerobics and an 84 year-old doing countryline dancing so really just I always like to show the variance of of of just how we are trying to provide service to all all members all patrons of the school district and so now I'm just going to kind of focus in very quickly as you know we spent a lot of time over the last couple years talking about the swim clubs and what that looks like and so I want to give you an update on where things stand on that and I will start with by spoiling the the punchlines that things are going very well um and so um where we're at is for the current swim year uh current school year um the parkway swim clubs

109are still operating as separate programs uh but you'll recall starting the fy2 parkway Swim Club moved Under the Umbrella of community ed which meant all the employees because Rockwood is the Fiscal Agent for Community aded um are now hired through through Rockwood as Community employees um they share an office together I hear them laughing and talking and sharing best practices um they have been working together very very well not only with maintaining um the programs that they have separately but they're spending a tremendous amount of time uh preparing for next year and so um which of course next year is when the combined Club will launch um swim seasons start in August so even though technically it will start with the fiscal year uh from an um employment and an um positioning standpoint the swim

110season doesn't actually kick off till August and so what you see there is just the current uh swim club membership as of March 1 these numbers have a tendency to go up and down throughout the year because when High School swimming is girls high school swimming is happening some of the members will drop out during High School swimming and then they'll come back so it's kind of a snapshot in time what I will tell you is that the parkway numbers are a little bit lower this year um as you know there's pool construction and so um with one pool down what that does is limit the size um we have to move some groups to other pools and so some of our group sizes have a limitation this year U just based on the construction

111schedule that'll all change um but but so it's a little bit down um but but it's still moving quite strong okay so as I mentioned planning continues for next year um the coaches are meeting regularly I think they're they're certainly every other week if not every week at this point um I'm a little bit ahead of myself tonight because um if you give us till the end of the month we're going to have some exciting announcements um we're very close to being able to announce the official name of what this is going to be what the logos are going to look like all of that will be coming in the next few weeks um we have been including U members from both parent groups and in some of the planning sessions um and they've been

112giving great feedback as well um and we continue to provide updates through the FAQ page that we've created for families so you're welcome to go on there and check out what's happening um the two parent associations have begun their meetings together you'll remember they're a booster group and so they are their own entity so they are working together and I um I've been told they share with me that they've even engaged some legal viice to try to formulate their bylaws and all these things and so that meeting process has begun um and things are they have told me things are moving very smoothly that is their process so we're we're here if they need help but they're they're leading it um and so this I did want to just give you a quick uh update

113on on where we're at with Staffing as you know um all of the uh employees of both clubs are guaranteed a job next year uh in the in the combined Club all full-time uh employees will have a position it may not be the position they're in but they are guaranteed a position and so what this looks like is uh we just wrapped up um the interview process for who will be the head coach um and I would tell you except it's going um not going to the rockco board for approval till the end of March so I'm not at Liberty to say other than we have made a recommendation maybe if you ask me offline I can tell you but um we have made a recommendation that will uh be approved hopefully uh at the

114end of March we will have an announcement right after that and so then the next step to that is is the head coach uh will begin the process of filling those full-time jobs and conducting those interviews and so you can see the timeline and how this is all going to pan out the goal is May 1st to send the recommendation uh for board approval for all the other full-time positions and then we're going to be ready to go come August 2025 so feeling very good about uh where things stand uh we have come a long way I can tell you I'm even more convinced how passionate and um ex uh what quality uh coaches we have for both clubs it's going to be great okay so kind of in wrapping up here what what do

115we have looking ahead so um FY 26 and Beyond I won't read through all these I just want to highlight a couple of them um we're focused on continuous Improvement in a lot of different ways um in fact we're focused on continuous Improvement so much that we have three uh we have about 30 people that work in the main community at office that are all the full-time staff and everyone in that building serves on one of three committees um those committees are either Staffing how how can we not only recruit but retain our staff um another one is customer experience how do we make everything we do easier more convenient more quality for our customers and then process just because we're doing something one way today doesn't mean it's the right way to do it

116tomorrow so we're reviewing how can we uh make things better so everyone in in the office uh sits on one of those so that all voices are heard across our programming operations and marketing staff um we do anticipate like your over Year from last year to this year kind of nominal to Flat um uh participation levels um uh as we hit look into FY 26 um and then I just want to call your attention I think I mentioned this last year uh that we were starting a middle school needs assessment so um we're kind of on the tail end of that we're really excited we've done um a lot of leg work up front which has resulted in over 50 parents from both Parkway and Rockwood who have expressed interest in being on focus groups

117and so the next step in that that uh we're going to be doing those this spring uh and the goal is going to be to to start implementing some of the program ideas in the fall so we're really excited about being able to expand what we're doing for middle school students um and then as I mentioned the last bullet is we're doing some really great stuff at the Baer red Center um now that we have our our staffing set and ready to go okay here's here's my last slide before I ask if you have any questions um I would be remissed if I didn't take a opportunity this is the last time I'll be up here in front of the board with Dr Marty here um and I do want to share um just the

118the the magnitude of appreciation that I have for you so um as you know you and I this is 11th year of the partnership but we've been working on this a lot longer than 11 years um and as I think back over those 11 years or 13 plus this years and I think about all of the individuals who from both districts who have um played a part in getting us where we are today there is no one that has played a more critical role or been a bigger Champion than you um and I know that I I speak on behalf not only of these these folks here with me tonight but the 300 plus um employees who are just so appreciative of everything that you've done um your leadership your mentorship most importantly your friendship

119um has meant the world to us and me personally and I just want to thank you for everything that you've done uh for not only me but for for Community ad and the Parkway and Rockway communities because um because of your support we've been able to do really great things so we just appreciate you very much well Mike uh I appreciate that so much but you know how I feel about you I've shared uh fact I just was able to contribute to your evaluation yes thank you thank you and I and I think I I just I I think back to when I came and really thought that we could do better and uh I tell the story that Paul Tandy and Mark sto came and they came back and said I think we should

120combine with Rockwood and I go why would we do that and that was a great recommendation and Mike your leadership and the leadership of your staff and your consistency is is also been something I've really enjoyed and the the watch us work through some of the issues the latest the you know trying to make the swim club bigger and better through the the you know the combination uh and many things we've worked through I I just appreciate you and your leadership and what you've met for the both commun so thank you for the comment but likewise I have great admiration and hope you'll continue leading this effort I know we had the opportunity when Dr Schneider was here to sit through if Dr Schneider was able to sit through and and meet Mike and get

121to know Community a little bit and I know she'll she'll be supportive and want to continue that good right relationship with you and the whole program so thank you so much Mike I appreciate it thank you uh so with that if there are any questions I'm happy to try to answer that well I'll just say thank you for your 19 years uh in the same role that' been beat he's outlasting uh but thank you again for everything and and I mean it when I say that I look forward to this I look forward to that slide of of the wide range of Ages that are participating um the only question I have is uh we talked a lot about Swim Club what about Swim School I know we had we had what 14500 kids uh

122in the fall in the spring a year ago is that still yeah the same yeah so we're doing very good um as you know um prior to combining the Swim Schools Parkway West was a location as well as cresview middle school and if you'll remember cresview midddle School in Rockwood used to be a high school and so now it's Middle School the middle school doesn't use the pool that's really our home base of operations it's about I think just under three miles from Parkway West um and so um knowing that the swim club was in need of more Lane space for the club it made sense to make um move the West swim school lessons down and combine into cresu because we just have the whole pool there that that is solely for the swim

123school Swim Club really doesn't use that pool at all um and so between um the Crestview location we also utilize Kirkwood High School um and Rockwood Summit High School and then in the summer we had Eureka High School and so um we are still going very strong what I will tell you is um you know we're always looking at demographics right so Swim School is very much about young kids so just as we see when we look at District populations and the number of elementary students maybe ticking down a little bit um we see that um with a lot of our programs including some school um but it is a program that still fills up I mean it's just a very very quality program I appreciate your time thank you so much thank you very

124much thank you all right next up we have a little work to do uh so I would invite Dr Michael lus our chief HR officer to join us talk about the calendar all right good evening president Todd vice president Hopper members of the board Dr Marty Mrs Stover I left my phone and my SmartWatch on the table actually along with my wallet and my keys so Dr it is is that time of the year where I get the privilege and opportunity to present to you the upcoming 2627 proposed academic calendar button before we begin tonight I would like to highlight that this is a collaborative e effort that takes months uh to get to this point the district calendar committee is comprised of teachers and administrators from all levels as well as members of the

125Communications Department the human resources department TLA student student services and the athletic activities Department we are 21 members strong and I'm honored to present our work tonight to you our journey started in September with an initial meeting designed to gather our hopes and dreams regarding this calendar for the 2627 school year each member shared their thoughts and that list was utilized to create a first draft version that was then moved to a smaller task force to meet in October what we heard loud and clear was to mirror as much as possible the 2526 calendar that was approved last year for next year and so let's take a look at a couple of the changes that will occur next year must haves we will have first semester finals next year before winter break and second semester

126finals Before Memorial Day and all of our uh half day schedules we will not have an early release we will have all half day schedules for professional development and Records day the committee wanted us to continue that for the calendar items to also continue um per the direction of the board several years ago we were asked that students not attend school on Election Day leaving those days as full day professional development days we also we'll continue to look at having a fall break and after long conversations with teachers we learned that it was okay to have uneven semesters also starting next year we'll be in session with students on Good Friday and per the request of P&A the desire to have teacher self-directed days before school begins for classroom preparations were also asked to continue

127the item that we need to fix was next year we do start on a Monday it was the only thing that we could not fix for the 2526 calendar and so those were our task for uh recommendations to move forward in the collection of this calendar another item I want to highlight is Misouri State statue 17131 which is where we are required by the board to prepare a calendar with minimum terms opening dates and exceptions number two is most relevant for us in this conversation as it reads each local school district May set its opening date each year which date shall be no earlier than 14 calendar days prior to the first Monday in September the reason I bring this up is for the 2627 calendar Labor Day is the last date possible for the

128first month or first Monday of the month which is the seventh you will see how this complicates several of our conversations later in this presentation but tackling this challenge the entire committee was able to reconvene in January to review and make a decision on the final that was completed in February for me to present tonight so to begin this proposal meets the P agreement of 191 teacher work days as well as 174 student contact days for this proposal our scheduled academic hours are 1 180. 2553 which is over the state minimum requirement of, 144 hours per Desi guidelines hours of snow a makeup must be built into the calendar and we have done that since 2122 school year the district has communicated our action plan of taking the first three snow days as traditional snow

129days if needed allowing students and staff to enjoy time with their families and decompress after the three traditional snow days the district will utilize approved our approved Ami plan alternative method of instruction to conduct virtual learning Ami allows us 36 hours for virtual learning while this slide displays a lot of information I'd like to highlight a couple of things first and most importantly I'm pleased to announce that for the 2627 school year calendar we will we were able to accomplish all the items that I discussed on slide three we will have finals before winter break we will have halfday schedules we will have a fall break and we will start school on Tuesday with students this is a huge undertaking with more Det later in the presentation but something the committee is very proud of

130second you will notice that the approved records date for teachers for the pnaa Agreements are provided we have to provide a half day uh for all student or all teachers at the end of first and third quarters and a day and a half given at the end of each semester which is quarters two and four for records days third teachers shared in the pnaa survey that they wanted more days at the beginning of the school year for classroom preparation two teacher work days were added on Friday August 14th and Monday August 24th teachers will report to those assigned work locations on those days as they are reserved for their self-directed work in buildings as a result the first day of school for students will be Tuesday August 25th finally on this slide school will be

131in session on March 26th which is Good Friday while we recog recognized that next year will be the first year we will be in school on this date and the potential substitute concerns pnaa has agreed to assist with the message of Staff attendance on that day so number of days of students in session per semester this is where State statue 171 comes into play first quarter will have 38 days second quarter will have 42 days giving semester one a total of 80 Days days third quarter will have 45 days and fourth quarter will have 49 days giving second semester a total of 94 days ironically this is the exact opposite of our current school year 92 days for first semester and 82 days for second semester through conversations ultimately the committee decided that this year's

132challenge of Labor Day should not offset the benefits of having high school finals before winter break as I shared earlier dismissal times for this year's calendar 2627 will again stay with halfday schedules the halfday schedule starting next year will allow for the three-hour window of extra time utilized for building professional development one hour and two hours of Cl or PLC work for teachers another concern noted at the beginning of of this conversation that that both parents and staff is the concern of having students in session on both the November and April election days the main concern relates to the large number of buildings that are utilized for election day and the multiple people entering schools these days as a result both days will mirror each other and are full professional development days for staff with

133no students in session linked to the November 3rd election day is a no school for STA and students on November 2nd which has been labeled our fall break so the question has come up especially lately why are we different than other school districts in the area one of the things that Parkway believes is the use of professional development throughout the school year in the form of half days and full days within this system Parkway has seven half days plus four full days of development the half days on the right side is displayed on the screen are all fall on Wednesday except two January 14th and February 11th are on Thursdays January 14th is linked to Martin Luther King Jr weekend and February 11th is linked to the President's Day weekend to avoid the district calendar

134appearing too busy teacher related dates continue to be outlined by month on a document called important dates for teachers and is available on inside Parkway to assist all staff there will be two Links at the bottom of the page the first link directs them to a list of the work calendars for 2627 separated by classification which outlines contracted work dayss contracted paid holidays and unpaid work dayss the second link will be the 2627 professional development calendar that is located on the teacher uh Talent Development work page also at the bottom of the right corner are religious observant days these are highlighted as the district is asking that no events testing or work projects are due on those dates before I conclude I do want to highlight the Parkway West High English Department as they did

135not go on notice for me as for last year's uh Halloween contest they dressed up as the school calendar so not sure if you won in your building but you're a winner in my hearts any questions um I have a question in regards to the number of hours you had mentioned that um snow days are built into the academic hours so that 1,080 hours that we have currently have the no built into it already so that's so the 36 that were over the state requirement are just they're not snow days that are they're they're actual extra hours the hours yes so the hours are built into our um calculations for that 1080 okay I'll just say my annual complaint that the statute was put in place not for educational purposes and we must react to

136it mat are going to war with Missouri legisl I put that slide in for you that's a tough one start in the 25th you know I think one of the things uh that we came to realize and I think Mike would agree at that we were concerned about the you know the balance of semesters but I think one of the things that I know like you shared is that the realization was during the second semester is where we more often do have snow days and interferences it's also some testing correct map testing so having more days second semester may be worthy of of consideration I think that's a committee kind of came to that conclusion right yeah the teachers did not see it as an issue one question that I have we may have discussed

137this previously but just to refresh my memory so like this year our three our our um snow days came right after our winter break that was two weeks long has there been discussion or conversation around the idea that okay if we've got because the the whole idea of taking traditional snow days was so that for refresh and relaxation well we've already had refresh and relaxation for two weeks and so is there conversation about perhaps the idea that if that happens again that we would go into Ami days rather than make those consistent work um snow days right after a big break like that yeah I think I think this year was an anomaly for sure we had we had the snow days right after winter break and we had a snow day after um a

138long weekend and so when you look at that planning pures I think is the main concern so when you look at planning and and for for both the teachers and for parents having those first three days be traditional snow days is helpful for the planning especially for our teachers and our students for AMI um for computers and other items for for them at home um we did talk about the ability to try to see if we can change that and look at it differently some districts do Ami first and then once they're through their Ami they do their traditional snow days if they have any and then after that they'll do the makeup hours as as Tiffany was sharing um for our conversation we kept going around the table talking about how it was just

139beneficial to do the three days up front because when we go back and look at historically they've not Fallen like they have this year right after winter break of course we can't adjust the weather that comes as we see in St Louis but um we kind of just came to the conclusion that it was better to stay this course because it has been historically what we have done um and this again year being an anomaly for the right after winter break to have a storm to continue our longer winter break um well with finals as I think about it with finals being at right before winter break nothing has you haven't really gotten into anything yet and then this gives them time not be interrupted I guess with a snow day if um you know

140we're in The The J you know the the Crux of education and academics and testing and things like that and as I shared last year for next year's calendar to have finals before winter break is is a wonderful change uh for our students and staff um and so hopefully we will we normally see the weather the second half of the year but in Missouri you just never know as Dr Marty mentioned earlier we have two is days of Ami left um if we needed to use them for the remainder of this year and then again we have built in hours um to to cover us for the 36 hours before we'd have to start making up days so this will come back to the board for approval next month next thank you very much thank

141you app next up one last uh little bit of work business uh so invite Dr Tiffany H the bestest and Dr Kevin Beckner to join us about see good evening again we will not be before you long uh you did have a folder on your chair it just has some collateral in that for our work session this evening and so as we prepare for our the development of our 2526 uh CP we thought it was really important that you knew um how we were doing on this year CP so if you recall we have three areas Focus areas for our CP Student Success in school student success in life and Beyond and resources for Student Success there is what we call a fancy Gant chart or that colorful chart in the left hand pocket um

142if you're curious about what's happening over the next 5 years um but tonight our conversation is focused on where we are right now for the 2425 school year uh so we're going to talk about the three Focus areas um center around our work this year so that you know how we are informing our next steps as we develop the comprehensive School Improvement plan for the 25 26 school year so Focus area it's all about our Student Success in school and those of you who I know I believe all of you were in attendance at our state of the district meeting much of this information was presented at that time as well we have three goals within this area one around achievement one around Equity one around student well-being in the area of achievement we are

143using our nwaa assessment to measure our students achievement we don't use map only because it's a onetime a year assessment whereas NWA gives us three points in the year to check in on our student achievement our goal this year we set at 80 or at 80% in ela and at 78% in math as of our winter assessment we're not quite there though we do have a couple months of learning still to hopefully achieve that goal with our students we set this goal around both achievement and growth that is an achievement when we look at growth uh the average for all students is always 50% just statistically that's where they said it so we wanted to aim a little higher than that we set those goals to 52% uh we actually uh in the frommer fall

144to winter already met both of the those growth goals and which is certainly good news and something to celebrate for our students in both Ela and math we also have a goal around reducing our disparities between students in the state defined student group and all students um this is certainly a ongoing and continuous problem and challenge for us and how to address uh it doesn't show very well but those numbers are slightly closing but nowhere near fast enough for us to celebrate any kind of significant achievement yet in this area uh we also are looking at our student well-being and we've got some great areas to celebrate which are just on the screen uh things like people feel treated fairly by School Employees or I get the help I need at school these are all

14590 plus percent of of positive responses from our community and our students which is great or at elementary and you know the things that I'm learning in school are important to me and and teachers care about me these are all really wonderful things that support our students wellbeing but we also do have some areas of growth here uh for example in our secondary schools fewer than seven out of 10 of our students say that students at their school care for one another so certainly an area that we can look to improve or at elementary that I get to do the same things as other kids in my school uh we're at 81% on that particular question Focus area two is about connecting students to that real world learning and things Beyond school so we have

146three areas within FOC Focus area too and that's real world and relevance how we're personalizing for students and how we're meeting our vision for a learner uh in this area we uh uh want each student to connect to those real world experiences we want each student to experience various Pathways and pacing and then again to achieve those four areas listed in our vision for abund uh we have some areas that we can celebrate here like this is our application growth within the spark program and we see that just over the last four years we've seen steady and continuous increase in the number of students applying to participate in the experiential learning through the spark program and where you can see that number has gone from 255 to 438 last year um these are our South

147Tech applicants so tech school where we have that partnership with South technical school with special through Special School District where we continue to see those numbers increase from 148 a few years ago up to approaching 300 at this point U we also are monitoring this thing new term for us really big on the other side of the state and part of our work through the sixcess ready student Network this thing known as a market value Asset which means students have some kind of credential or they've earned something that they can point to that say I'm ready for something Beyond School currently we do have 80% of our students plus earning a market value Asset uh you see the various areas now one area for growth for us here for sure is many many of our

148students the V majority are earning that NBA through either College and Career coursework or qualifying assessments we actually only have about 15% of our students currently who are earning that through either work experience career ticket entrepreneurial or other real world opportunities to connect with life outside of the school's four walls uh so so the future some things that we have planned is we're trying to increase that 15% so that we can get more of our students connected with real world learning opport opportunities where they can access careers and Pathways that are really going to put them on a on a path to be successful once they leave us and make sure that we align those middle and high school experiences because right now we're very heavy on the on the high school experience for sure

149and Dr home and best is going to talk about Focus Area 3 so as you know Focus Area 3 looks at facilities and operations as well as Staffing and so we've gotten creative in this area and started some work uh in your folder on the right hand side I believe underneath the first hand out you'll see um we are Parkway proud uh this is usually about point of Pride but we have adjusted this to try to attract uh potential employees to the district regardless of what role they're serving and so uh the courtesy of our Communications Department in partnership with our human resources department um just highlighting um the excellent benefits we have here in Parkway to attract highly qualified candidates also uh attribute to our human RAC department and their um recruitment retention efforts

150to um get creative in how we're recruiting by setting up shop in areas um around St Louis and in St Charles um just to meet with candidates um for both certified and non-certified positions they've been working on that throughout the school year and um just showing how we're promoting our positions differently whether that's through Linkedin and having Flyers published um that many of us actually republish on our own personal Pages as well um also one of the things that we've been doing is a staff Spotlight um where there's an award given at a particular school um H HR goes out and highlights the staff member with principal that school and then we post this to social media um to help with retention of our staff um there is also a task force that is forming

151uh this semester to continue the work on Staffing and um at least for those of you who serve on our steering committee you know we started our work of our facilities revolation revitalization with u facilities 2050 um the parkway project Parkway steering committee is assisting with that we began our work last month and we will continue it on March 28th next steps March 28th we have our steering committee meeting and we will again update steering uh with some information on where we are next test and our strategic plan as we set up our comprehensive School Improvement plan for 2526 um we have our leaders all back together in April at a princial meeting where we'll have our district directors join us as well we have a board work session with you coming up on April

15216th as and then another followed by a steering committee and a board Workshop later in April our hope is to bring you our proposed comprehensive School Improvement plan for the 2526 school year on May 14th with that we're happy to answer any questions Friday March 28th March 24th March I am so sorry it's wrong I'm sorry I think I said the 28th I it's Monday the 24th just kidding we want to hang out with you guys just try um on Focus area one under well-being so um the survey that you that you showed um what was the participation rate great question I think we'd be happy to get you that data um we don't have it you know off the top of our heads um we do and of course it varies depending on whether

153it's the family survey the student survey or the staff surve we'd be happy to provide that great question thank you much okay uh we have no special meeting but at this time the board will reconvene into our close thank you all for attending and or watching