001Hello everybody. Welcome to our regular regular meeting of the board of education for Cape Gerardo. It's October 27th at 602 and uh the record show all board members are present except Dr. Fgley and Mr. Ritter. So let's start off with the pledge of allegiance. Please rise to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Board, we have an agenda before us. We got a motion to approve. So move >> second. >> Right. All those in favor? >> I. >> Okay. Carries. So up first, Terrific Tigers. We're going to be we'll be reading your names and a little brief description if you want to. the student will come up and we'll take a picture and parents
002you can come and get a picture also and uh look forward to just meeting everybody. >> Okay, first from the early childhood center we have Kase Cucend Doll, son of Jesse Cucendall and Tamaya Jones. [applause] Kase comes in every day with a smile and a greeting for his teachers. He follows directions and asks for help when needed. He sings and dances with our groups and participates in all aspects of our program. Kase brings a ray of sunshine to our little school. Can you smile at me? >> Next up from Alma Schroder, we have Charlotte Ross, daughter of Michael and Adam Ross. [applause] Charlotte consistently demonstrates exceptional behavior and a remarkable work ethic in all that she does. She approaches every assignment with focus, determination, and a positive attitude that inspires those around her. Her kindness,
003responsibility, and commitment to doing her best make Charlotte a true terrific tiger in the classroom. [applause] From Blanchard Elementary, Dayton Palmer, daughter of Brley and Jimmy Palmer. Dayton is [applause] a role model in the classroom. She possesses all the traits of a terrific tiger. She is attentive in class, takes pride in her work, and strives to do her best. In addition, Palmer is kind and caring to her classmates. She's very deserving of this award. Congratulations, Palmer. [applause] From Clifford Elementary, Ariel Williams, daughter of Akidra Humble. [applause] Ariel is a fa fantastic example of following Clippard's roar expectations. She is always showing kindness to others, working hard in class, participating, and has a smile on her face. Ariel has also been a leading example of being an MVP, most valuable peer. Ariel is a wonderful student
004and very deserving of being a terrific Tiger. [applause] From Franklin Elementary, Cecilia Musgrave, daughter of Kevin Musgrave and Lydia Walboom. [applause] Cecilia was chosen as a terrific Tiger because she demonstrates exemplary character. She is consistently attentive and focused, always staying on task and completing her work efficiently and with precision. Precision. Cecilia is a responsible and respectful student who readily help and helpfully assists her peers. She always has a kind and positive attitude. [applause] >> From Jefferson Elementary, Israel Evans, daughter of Corey Evans and Tatonicia Robinson. [applause] From Central Middle School, we have Macy Joe Parker, daughter of Beth Murray. [applause] Macy takes pride in any task that is assigned to her. She is kind to everyone and loves to volunteer to help in the classroom. Macy is an exemplary student and a joy to have
005in class. She's an excellent role model at CMS. Way to go, Macy. [applause] from Terry W. Kitchen Junior High. Karma Jones, daughter of Britney Thomas and Dewan Jones. [applause] Karma maintains focus within her group and demonstrates an exceptional work ethic, even when she encounters concepts that don't come easily. She approaches them with persistence and determination, never allowing obstacles to diminish her willingness to learn and grow. Karma's positive attitude and commitments inspire those around her to give their BEST AS WELL. >> [applause] >> FROM CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL. JOSEPH CHOW, son of Chin Wu and Zong Hua CHOW [applause] from Central Academy. Lyall Hughes, son of Tabitha Moore. [applause] From September from Blanchard Elementary, we have Kamaya Simpkins, daughter of Jeremy Simpkins and Jennifer Wagner. [applause] And then also from September from Terry W. Kitchen Junior High,
006we have William Selenus, son of Lorena Garcia. [applause] William has consistently demonstrated hard work and dedication both last year and this year, always staying focused and on task. His positive attitude shines through daily, making William a joy to have in class and a source of encouragement for others. [applause] >> That's it, gang. >> Everyone take one more picture here. We're going to put you two places. Good narration. >> I think you pronunciation spot. >> Okay, great. >> Yeah, after you said it out loud. >> You're like, "Yeah, that's [laughter] how I did it." Context. I think it was great. YEAH, [laughter] [applause] >> that's how you get that job full time right there. >> I'll take it. >> That's good work. >> Yep. [snorts] >> I need to use that sentence. >> And you all
007are welcome to stay for the rest of the meeting or you can depart if you'd like. Either way. >> Sure to be exciting. Stay with me. >> Yeah, I don't think they believe you. >> They're leaving faster now. >> They're going to miss the baffle. >> Should I think we should >> Shannon, thank you for staying. [laughter] >> Miss Bley, thank you for staying. Yes. >> Oh, wait. You're presenting >> somebody else. [laughter] >> Oh my gosh. >> All right. Thank you guys. So, up next is information proposals or comments from the audience. Mr. Payne, do we have any for this evening? >> No requests this month. >> Okay. And just want to remind everybody that um information proposals are governed by policy BDDB, KC, and BDDH. And 5 days prior they can reach out
008to Mr. Payne here at the central office if anything needs to be brought up. So thank you. Next up, superintendence report. Dr. Ben, hand it to you. >> Thank you. Thank you. Um so this month's been a busy month. I can't believe it's already over. Um but uh we're ending it well. Uh thanks to the board for a great MSBA conference this past week in Kansas City. We had a great time uh learning together. Got to know some of you a little bit better as well. Uh it's always good team building. Uh some experts in pickle ball which is wonderful. Good team building activity. Um and we also just great job to Miss Keys. How fun. We drove from Kansas City to Black Light Bingo which was which was I've never done before but it
009was a really good time. And uh didn't win anything, but uh just congratulations. [laughter] Didn't win anything, Miss Keys, just so you know. Um but congratulations to Miss Keys, Mrs. Thomas, and Mrs. Barry uh and many others that were there working. It took an army to uh truly uh do this black light bingo. We had a fantastic time raising money to support our students in the areas of health, hunger, and hygiene. So, you guys did a great job. Um hopefully you will share some of the numbers after we've uh >> hopefully at the next meeting >> at the next board meeting >> and everything >> because there was a lot of people there filled up the Osage Center. So it was fun. November [clears throat] 4th, just a reminder, November 4th, we are hosting a
010new event. It's called the Medicaid Night at Cape Central Middle School. We'll be guiding families through uh filing filling out paperwork to apply for various forms of assistance. We'll also have information on mental health support that evening as well. It starts at 4:30 and is free to any of our families. So hopefully you can come out and enjoy it. And that's all I have for my report. >> Awesome. Thank you, sir. Uh information reports up next, board president's report. Um again, MSBA meeting was u really good time. Got to learn a lot of good stuff. We'll be I'll be sharing some more stuff with the board from some of the president's meetings, things. There were some really good things that came out of that. Um, of course you already mentioned we have districts this week
011for all sorts of sports. Lots of exciting stuff going on there. And um, did just want to comment the welding facility ribbon cutting was fantastic. Uh, we had, you know, state representative, state senator there. Great turnout from lots of local vendors and, uh, suppliers and it was just really, really great. Super excited that we've got that as a tool to arm students, adults, uh, so we can, you know, again, help this area to grow. So that went really well and that is all I have. So up next, CIP lead five. Dr. Bignyan, your name's first. So >> lead five. I believe we're just going to be going over salaries and benefits and I'm going to turn it over to Dr. Beck. Uh we got our report from MSTA, so he's going to go over some
012of the uh rankings for us and salaries. >> This will just be a brief update. It's kind of just following up. Um, lead five, MSTA annual salary and benefit survey results are always lagging information, so you're not going to get them till the following year because they have to compile everything from all the school districts. >> Um, just to retouch on our CEP goal, it's to develop a long range fiscal plan to address employee compensation. Specifically, the superintendent developing a process to create a long range fiscal plan for the school district that addresses employee compensation. Our key metrics to see if we're being successful are staff turnover rates, which we talked about earlier this year. That's actually at the highest point it's ever been in since the inception of our CSIP. Uh budgetary analysis that's
013performed with Dr. Benyan and our uh CFO, Miss Dudek. And then our overall employee compensation package, which which has only increased over the last two years. The specific attachment you see from MSTA's report reflects that for the bachelor's degree starting step, CAPE still ranks as the fourth highest paying minimum salary at 41,165 as of last year. And then we have the third highest paying salary for the region as it relates to starting master's degree at $44,665. And then our CIP goal specifically stated that over the life of the CEIP, we wanted to increase that base by no less than 10%. And currently we're on track. We've either met or exceeded that every year so far for the life of our CEP. So I'd be happy to answer any questions you have. Just as we receive
014the information, wanted to provide an update to the board. >> I had a question when I was looking over this. Okay, so we rank fourth for the minimum, but then when you look at the max or the plus, just from my brief overview, it looks we're like we're on the lower end of the spectrum, which to me reads like we're going to do a great job bringing teachers to us, but then as they gain experience, they're going to go somewhere else where they're going to get paid more. So that so what it reflects is we have the fourth highest starting >> and when it says max it's what we're going to max out for strictly the bachelor's degree column which we freeze on 12. >> So it's promoting those teachers to pursue advance [clears throat]
015all the way the 30 steps that we we encourage our staff to go back >> to continue their education. Got it. Okay. So, as they progress to bachelor's plus 15, master's degree, things like that, those columns keep increasing. >> Yep. I see. >> Getting a bigger step as they go. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> It has on the next page. >> Yeah, it's on the second page, so it's hard to track it, but >> Yeah. [laughter] >> Well, they send it to you like this. So, it's it's hard to have to take one. >> Any other questions about the MSDA survey? Sorry, benefits. Okay, thank you very much, sir. All right, so uh up next, academic services report. So, JAG, jobs for American graduates program update, Mr. Russell. >> So, I'm going to hand it
016over to Mrs. Purley. >> Fantastic. [laughter] Thank you. Thank you for coming. >> Hello again. Um, I don't mind. So, >> I did it, but I forgot. Is that better? Okay. Um, so once again, I am back with you um to get to talk about a program I absolutely love and am so passionate about, Jobs for America's Graduates. Um, I'm going to talk to you a little bit about what we've done, what we're going to do, and kind of what it means, and where we're headed with the program. So, our whole goal is to get students prepared for what they're going to do when they get out of high school. And as much as we like to say we do that across the board, it is so hard for students to sometimes perceive what really
017is going to happen um once they actually leave our doors. And so having a program like this where students get to address those issues and actually talk about some of those things is extremely important in my opinion. Last year in pictures, this is just a small snapshot of what we did. I have thousands of pictures. If anybody ever wants to just go through them, I would be happy to share. Uh, but you can see we had students awarded. We got to go to Jefferson City a couple different times. We had service projects where we made nature kits for the Simo Pets group and we did all kinds of stuff with their pets. We got to go out to the CTC and um collaborate with them and our students got to see some of the programs
018there which was awesome. We did all kinds of fun team building activities getting our students to learn how to work together and see what it's like to work with people that maybe you don't always get along with. um lots of p uh like the pictures is um with the photo there where he's taking the photo. Um we worked with Epic Lens and I'll talk to you a little bit about that partnership here in a little bit, but they got to do what their life would be like through photo and you'll see those actually up on billboards by Andes and there's one over here in the plaza. So every once in a while it'll have a picture up and it'll say from Central Academy. So you'll notice those. We did lots of tours. We went to
019Codify. We went to Mandi. Oh gosh, we went all kinds of places last year. And then we also um did some leadership activities with like the National Guard and some things like that as well. This year we have already added 27 students officially to our roster um with a total of over 50 students in our JAG career association which is awesome. So current active enrolled headed somewhere students [laughter] which is amazing. We just had our initiation this past Friday. Students were really excited. I'm not sure they were more excited about the food that the foundation helped provide or if they were just excited about being enrolled in something. A lot of them said to me, "Hey, this is the first time I've ever been part of a club." And I thought that was really cool,
020you know, because they don't usually get to put that stuff on their resume. And so, they're excited about that. Um, it was neat to watch them come across the stage and shake hands with each other and be really excited. Our students led the whole program. It was awesome. So, what exactly is JAG? What is it that we do? It is an elective course. Students can actually take it any time through grades 9 through 12. And they can take it as many times as they'd like. They can do it for a term. They can do it for a year. They can come in and out as much as they'd like to. Um, and that's kind of unique to many other classes because most classes you have a set curriculum and this is what I do and
021this is how it happens and once you've done it, it's just a repeat. You know, the cool thing about JAG is that it has 87 competencies and I can make those happen however I'd like within their model. So, they have to learn how to use the telephone appropriately. This year, one of the things we're doing, I have a little script next to my phone and they've learned how to answer the phone appropriately from me. Last year, we actually made some phone calls to see who needed volunteer services. We can do that in so many different ways that it can change the program completely from year to year. So students who can be in there multiple times and it doesn't ever look the same. The eight basic categories. Oh, you can see we had fun too.
022Notice the hats. That's always nice. I think it >> Okay, there we go. I was like, it didn't like me there for a second. Um the eight basic categories of the competencies you can see a lot of it has to do with job attainment and careers because that is what we're focused on. What's it going to look like after graduation? But we also look at personal skills, soft skills, uh leadership development, basic life survival. What do you need to make it in the world? Whether you're going to be in some kind of career, whether it's education, what are we looking at? And we do that through all kinds of things. Classwork, projects, speakers, going places, um just anything we can come up with. As you can see here, we were actually visiting um Mr. Ritter.
023We were down at his place. This was part of an activity we talked about at the beginning of the year where we did the downtown blitz. The kids absolutely loved it. We got to talk to so many different people that day and they got to eat and they got to have fun and they got to be out of the school building, but they came back so fired up. Part of that has to do with this JAG advantage. Three separate categories that we put things in. Employer engagement, project-based learning, and trauma-informed care. I have been overwhelmed by the amount of barriers our students have. I kind of mentioned this at the beginning of the year. This has continued to go up. When I was on the board for JAG, my first year, their kids average roughly
02413 barriers. Last year was 17. We're up to 20. And it just breaks my heart and it it makes me sad for them. But I also am amazed at how they overcome those barriers as the year goes on and how we continue to pull those barriers off. Just being part of some of the programs that we're now partnering with through JAG has helped to remove some of those barriers that they didn't have. We've gotten to go visit Simo that removed a barrier because now they visited a college. Just little things like that that are just amazing me that we're able to do to help them out to help remove some of those things they wouldn't be able to do on their own necessarily. So, how does that work? Employer engagement, like I said, we can
025go places. We can bring people in. We had Miss Britney Spencas come in. We were doing a unit on small businesses. Like I said, we went to downtown Cape. That was one of the things we did. But we also brought people in. She talked to us about what it's like to franchise because kids didn't understand what that meant. Why was that different? um but just pet supply. We went there and talked about what she did from the ground up. She said I started out housesitting and ended up dogsitting and the next thing I know I've got a business and it was like okay the kids were like we could do that you know so it was cool to let them experience that and see what that was like right here in town. What are some
026of these businesses like? Approximately 60% of our students currently have jobs which is unbelievable to me. Um, I know most of us worked during school when we were growing up, probably too, but I didn't work as many hours as they do. So, it blows my mind how they keep up. Um, a lot of them are helping to support their families or their own children. Um, [snorts] and just seeing what's out there beyond their McDonald's job or their Fisoli's job is kind of cool because they think that may be all they have. And so, we're trying to promote some other things in their future. We do a lot of project- based learning. Um, so like I talked about with the small business uh creation, they actually started from the ground up. What is a problem we
027see here in Kate? What is something you could fix? Some of them said, "Well, we need to redo that Save a Lot building because it's just sitting there empty." And so they decided what they were going to put down there that would bring people in. And then other people said, "Well, we need something for youth to do where they can be watched over at the same time >> as they're having fun." So they came up with some programs where there was adults on one side and kids on the other. It was just fascinating to me the things that they discovered and came up with. And they had to do a complete business model from the beginning to the end. And as we were going through these processes, they get out to these other business leaders
028and be like, "So, how did you decide what your customer base was?" And I'm like, "Yes, you're learning. This is awesome." Um, but they just they really started to get into it and started to be amazed at what that looked like in real life because somebody said, "I'm just going to own a business when I grow up." What does that mean? You know, so what is it that we're dreaming at or dreaming for and what is that going to look like as we go forward? A lot of those soft skills, we have our own Jag store, which has ended up being really, really cool. The kids always wanted to do it and they've had like little carts and things. They decided they wanted a full-fledged store. So, we have a room and they have shelves
029and they have inventory and they have to keep it and they have a cash register and they have to do the whole nine yards. And they have been phenomenal with it. I have been so impressed and they and they kind of police themselves as what needs to be done and hey you didn't do the inventory why isn't that done we don't have any Skittles left and I it's just amazing what they're learning and some of them say can I put that on my resume and I said absolutely you know so let's put these skills down um but they're learning those kinds of things and they're learning how to cooperate and figure out they're getting some managerial skills in some cases so it's been pretty impressive the trauma-informed care is something that I take very seriously
030it's actually something I'm becoming more certified tied in actually [snorts] um because I feel like it's such an important part of what we're doing. We've partnered with Epic. That's one of the groups I mentioned before and their whole idea is that every person impacts community. We've done the Epic Pals program which is where they're bringing in pets and we're talking about what kind of jobs there are with pets. They're using therapy dogs with our kids. We've done some dog training with them which the kids thought was awesome. Um we're going to Sim Mo Pets in a couple weeks and doing some stuff there. We've done epic yoga. Some of my kids were like, "We're doing what?" But they have loved it because they were like, "I didn't know I would actually like this." But it
031gives them another outlet, something else to learn to cope with their feelings and their emotions and their anxieties. And so, they're doing those things. We also are going to partner with them again with Epic Lens, so you'll see more of their photographs all over the place. Um, and then the classroom environment. If you've been by my room, you know it is not normal. I have lots of big lounge chairs. You can see I have coffee tables and couches and I want them to feel comfortable and I want them to talk to each other. We don't have phones. I don't like them to have their devices most of the time because I want them to have to have a conversation. I even encouraged them this past week when you go home for Thanksgiving, find a relative
032you haven't spoken to in a while and go have a real conversation. They were like serious because it just is something they aren't practiced in and they don't know how to do it. So, we're practicing those skills. Here we go. Is it going to work? There we go. Um, one of our other partnerships we've done this year is working with the Boy Scouts and doing the Explorers program. This has been phenomenal. We kind of touched on it last year, but we didn't get a chance to really get it going. And this year, it has been amazing. We've been able to go to KBSI 23 and the kids got to see like every bit of what that looks like and all the different managerial positions and what kind of things they might be able to do
033in that. We've also been able to do the downtown blitz. Uh this month we're meeting with all the emergency management from the area and they'll get to see fire and police and you know ambulance like all kinds of things and talk about what that looks like for the area. Um we're going to go to Amaran and learn some things from them. So it's just a really cool partnership where he's getting other people involved that I may not know the connections to and allows them to see a little bit of a different side of things. Service is another big part of it. We've been doing some different things already this year. We've worked with foundation for their trunk or treat which is coming up this week. You know, getting all the little packages together for them.
034Um we do the rewards card for a junior high. That was part of a PBL that we did. The students wanted to do something to try to get the kids to behave better for the junior high teachers. So, they decided they wanted to give them an incentive. [laughter] So, they came up with having little burly bugs they call them. >> And so, I'm like, "Hey, [laughter] whatever works. I don't care." So they have decided to take that on that part of what they earn in the Jag store goes toward buying treats for the junior high kids and they can earn little burly bucks and then they get basically free trees for their good behavior. So and it's worked out really well. It's really been a great incentive and then my kids get to work it
035and then they can encourage them and it's been really kind of a cool thing. Um we just have I mean just we just had the educational fair as well. We host those for our students for all the students in the building. We had 13 different schools and Renaissance beauty and some military people all came in this past Friday as well and our kids got to go and visit with all those different people and see the different opportunities that they might have here in the area. We also have a career readiness fair in the spring. There they get to do mock interviews. They get to have their resumes looked at. All those kinds of things, but we host those as JAG as well. Additional events we've already been to this year. build my future. We took
03622 students popular bluff. They got to do things like welding. We had some of them driving steamrollers. I didn't trust the with the cars in the parking lot, but they did, so it was okay. Um, like I said, we did the pet training. We've been to SEMO, so lots of things already. Now, why is this so important? Here's the success story. 100% of our kids who have been in in JAG have graduated. That's phenomenal to me. It just makes my heart melt. We've already had three this year. I And I I tell them I'm really excited for them. At the same time, I'm always tearing up when they're coming back in and I'm like, "Are you sure you really want to come?" Because it's just unbelievable to me. They're so great at what they do.
037Um but they're already out there and they're already getting jobs and they're already doing these things here in October. So, that's pretty crazy. Um we have um 80% that have graduated have full-time jobs somewhere. We have some who are working at the VA DNA. We have some who are working um I've got some atpng. We have some who are working I mean just all over the place. It's been amazing. We have some who are looking into becoming teachers. I'm like yes please definitely I've got some places you can go. Um so lots of great things that are going on there. A lot of our kids are also still in technical school. We've got several out at the CTC right now which is awesome. Um and they're personal successes. Nothing is better for me than to
038have a student call back and say, "I just got my own apartment and I can pay for it and I know that the budget's okay." And I'm like, "That's what I'm talking about." Or, "Hey, you know what? I've been working for three months to make sure that I could get the insurance for my car before I went and bought it." I'm like, "That's that's right there what we've been talking about." Because that means that somewhere in there they're catching all these things that we're teaching them and they're applying it to what's really happening in the real world. And that's what I'm worried about for them. Um, it's been amazing to me the things that being able to follow up with them for a year after graduation, how important that is. The questions I get back
039that you think you cover and enough and then they come up with something else that you haven't thought of. Um, you know, one of the things we've talked about insurance, but we didn't talk about what happens when, you know, this part of your insurance does this and this part of your I'm like, "Okay, hold on. I can help you, but you got to give me a second to figure out what you're talking about." But it's just amazing to me. um the benefit of having that as well that year long afterwards for that. And not that it lasts only a year, but that's just only the paperwork I do. I've still got kids from three years ago I keep up with, but you know, whatever. What are some other things we're coming up with? I talked
040about some of the um explorers things. I talked about some of the epic things, but we have all kinds of stuff still coming. Um we're getting ready to do a driver safety course. I've discovered a lot of our kids don't have a lot of that information, but they all want to be able to drive and some of them think they can and they don't know the difference of right and left. So, we probably need to work on that. Um, but that's something we're going to be working on. We look at financial stability. What does that really mean? Um, insurance. We have a lot of people come in and talk to us about those kinds of things. We also talk about what taxes look like and what that happens. We had a student this week who
041said, "I didn't pay any attention. and I just filled out all the paperwork and I don't understand why I'm only getting 5 cents out of my paycheck. I'm like, well, let's go back and look what you filled out and talk about why that is because they've never been taught that this is what you mark. So, she came running into me and she's like, I don't have you, but I'm like, let's do it. So, we did. >> Um, but I think that's some of the really major major things that we're going to be doing. We do have um the career development conference that we'll go to in uh the spring where kids get to compete actually against other kids from throughout the state and that's always a great time too and they get to see a
042little bit about what they're able to do. >> So any questions? >> I covered a ton of stuff. [laughter] >> Yeah, great job. >> Okay. >> How many JAG programs are there in the state just in Missouri? >> Oh, there's >> And is there a lot like a lot or a couple? There's 117, I think. >> Okay. Last three years, I think. >> Yeah, it's doubled over the last few years. Like, it's it's continuing to grow. They just actually opened up the Kansas City area. >> Um, and we've just gotten a regional manager up there, so that will continue to grow as well. Yeah, it's pretty awesome. And I will say, I've got students who really think we need to have more of those around here, too. So, >> if you hear they're trying to
043push it into our building, too. [laughter] So, more Jack. Well, thank you very much. >> Yeah, absolutely. [snorts] >> Okay, up next, Aspiring Leadership Academy Program Update. So, Dr. B, good luck following that. >> How am I supposed to follow that? I don't know. >> Well, mine will be brief. Once [clears throat] again, it's that time of the year. Aspiring Leadership Academy is off and rolling. It's one of the in one of the most fun things I get to be a part of throughout the year. I I enjoy it. I know the rest of our team does as well. Um, just kind of the broad overview. Aspiring Leadership Academy is designed for certified staff committed to developing their leadership skills, possibly in preparation of one day transitioning into an administrative job in our district. But
044that's not a requirement to be seeking out those positions. It's really just about increasing leadership capacity as a whole in all of our buildings and teacher leadership. Um, in addition to the program objectives I've listed, they will shadow admins for a [snorts] day across the district. They will participate in mock interviews. They will complete action research projects that you will be invited to see in April at the end of the year. Um, we are currently are studying the self-aware leader by John Maxwell [snorts] is one of our books we're looking at that we've already started. We're about six chapters in and then Dr. Binyan just recently got them copies of strength-based leadership that he'll start um talking to them about those assessment pieces um and determining what their true leadership strengths are moving forward. Our
045next meeting for the cohort will be this November with Mr. Russell. Um he will be focusing on curriculum instruction and assessment practices. And we currently have nine cohort members this year. I invited them this time of year last year but I I'm learning as we go too. I'm going to invite them to come at the end and talk about their action research projects this year. That way there's more to cover. Quick list of those participants. We have Miss Kelly Ross, special education teacher at Central High School. Tyler Probes, PE and health teacher at CHS. Lamont Frasier, PE head basketball coach at CHS. Dr. Amy Bavor, foreign language from Terry W. Kitchen Junior High. Darren Neiels, um, physical education strength coach, coach for the junior high as well. Miss Amy Camp, physical education teacher at Alma.
046Natalie Duncan, elementary teacher at Clippard. Miss Allison Bradshaw, also an elementary teacher at Clifford. And Miss Carol Lrand, who is our child development coordinator at CTC. So, we're very excited about that cohort. Um, we learn just as much from them as they do from us as we progress through the school year. and have great conversations. And it's fun to be a couple cohorts in because now I get to look out like Shannon sitting here who went through the program. So I get to see her face as we start discussing these things. But just excited excited to have you guys attend in April as well for the action research projects. Any questions about the aspiring leadership academy? >> Thank you very much, Dr. Beck. Okay, up next, support services report, transportation program evaluation. Mr. Cra, >>
047thank you. So, in front of you, uh, you have the transportation report and as you look, um, numbers are increasing in bus ridership around our district. Uh, so it's kind of twofold because it it's a it's a moving population as far as who needs the buses, who doesn't need the buses. is if we look at Elmer Troder, they're still well within only just utilizing one bus, but at different times in the day because of our abbreviated schedule with some of the students, we've actually added a an additional midday bus run for students coming in going from school dur during the middle of the day. So, as we go through this, you'll kind of see some little outliers like that, but overall, um, you can see the numbers there, cost of the program, and that also
048includes, uh, extracurricular costs, so basketball team going somewhere, cross country team, dance competition, field trips. Um, this also includes our our students that are utilizing Jefferson pool throughout the day and uh being picked up at their home building and then taken back taken back to their originating building. We are in the fifth year of fifth and final year of our contract with Robinson. So that was awarded back in 2021. It was originally a three-year contract with up to two one-year extensions. So this is at the conclusion of that contract. So, new RFP will be going out uh after the first of the year and I can tell you there are individuals that are already aware of that who are requiring when is the RFP going to come out. [snorts] So, it's good to have that
049contact because it makes it competitive and helps keep uh cost down for us. strengths of our program. Uh Robinson uh listens response concerns. Uh the inspection rate, we were above state average uh last year uh with uh our uh passage rate. Now that passage rate can also be a little um disingenuous in a sense. So if they found one loose washer on laying on the floor, whether it belonged on the bus or not, that would be a knock against your buses. um if uh the driver got on the bus but they were taking it through the line and the mirror wasn't lined up for them but it was another driver it was lined up for that would be a knock on the deal. So a lot of these things were minimal uh and minor but
050uh we're where we were at in the past was not something that we were happy with and so Robinson has really done a fantastic job in getting our rate up there. uh student bus evacuation drills are conducted, GPS tracking, radio system, and the majority of the fleet that we have is less than five years old. So, uh again, rather new buses that we have out there for our students. Certain concerns, uh and I've brought this up, some areas where there's overcrowding, we don't want delayed, uh response times with our buses. So, we're continually looking at how that is impacted. and for this year in particular with the city of Cape uh it's great improvement but it does create delays road construction around the town. So sometimes our bus stops are shifted from one location to
051another, we'll push that out on multiple different mediums u once we have that information or once we're affected because at 7:30 in the morning the bus stop may be fine and then all of a sudden we find out about 12:30 or whatnot that the city has started jackhammering up an intersection or or whatnot. Uh we want to continue to provide safe and reliable transportation and onboard video camera maintenance program is actually underway this year. So a lot of our [snorts] hard drives have been replaced in those cameras. Uh we have sound we have uh obviously the enhanced video. So the pixel strength is a lot better and at a minimum each each bus has a minimum of three onboard cameras strategically loc located uh throughout it. And I still feel like our program is above
052average. So questions, concerns or comments? >> Do we run bus monitors like a second on >> So we employ the bus monitors as district employees, but the drivers are employees of >> Robinson Transport. So that works where bus monitors uh typically work a 4-hour day, two hours in the morning, two hours in the afternoon. And uh they're basically a partner uh of the driver. They monitor the safety of the kids as well as the behavior of the kids and then report that back to the buildings if there's a concern. Over uh I wish maybe one over half around half of our monitors are also TAs or teachers that are in our district. So, it's an opportunity for the kids know who those monitors are. And a lot of our monitors who aren't staff members, they're
053known in those neighborhoods. They they are people that are on the buses. the kids know them, families know them, and and that really goes a long way with uh their position. >> Any other questions? >> Well, thank you very much, Mr. Brown. >> Appreciate it. All right. Up next, our exciting community teachers association report. >> Welcome. Welcome. >> Thank you for allowing me to come back. I'm gonna read through this nice lengthy list of celebrations this year. >> So, from Alma Schroder, shout out to nurse Kim, who is simply the best. Her contributions touch every corner of our school from organizing Maggie the therapy dog activities, getting a PTO grant from the vet doctor corner in the STEM lab to providing critical mandatory staff training and ensuring the health and safety of all of our
054students and staff. She is one of the hardest working professionals in the entire building. Thank you, Nurse Kim, for everything you do. We want to recognize the fabulous Schrodder Encore team. Every day, this team goes the extra mile to provide our students with highly structured and enriching Encore lessons and activities. Furthermore, they are tremendous support to classroom teachers and consistently set up to step up to assist the school in any way they can. They are simply the best. I'm noticing a thing. Jessica Gwyn for her awesome presentation and engagement on engagement strategies. She is the goat greatest [snorts and clears throat] of all time. [laughter] Sherry Meyer. Oh, this is Blanchard. She makes sure everyone has what they need and knows what they need to need to know. Miss Jones created such an awesome hands-on
055activity about volcanoes. The kids were pumped. Shout out to Miss Cal for being an inspiration to the students and opening their minds to the wonderful world of art. Shout out to Miss Patillale for guiding the students with her relentless effort and gigantic heart. Shout out to Laura John. She surely she truly goes above and beyond for all the first year teachers. She is constantly checking in, offering help, and sharing her wisdom without ever expecting anything in return. All the extra time, effort, and heart you pour into us never goes unnoticed. Shout out to Miss Conklin. She's an outstanding first year teacher who loves her students and goes above and beyond to learn how to reach each one. I am so proud of her. Shout out to Miss May. She's truly a joy to be around.
056She does so well at making her room an inviting place, pours her heart out to the students, and keeps in good communication with other teachers. She is doing an amazing job and is so kind and caring. Love having her here. Shout out to Miss Hoffman for stepping up and doing the most to keep our school clean. From CAO, big shout out to Rachel Barry for all the hard work work she puts in to keeping us afloat. She has had a rough year this year and is still doing everything in her power to make sure that sped runs smoothly. I second that one. She is awesome. I read that. That was someone else, but I also third it. Okay. Central. [laughter] Shout out to the all CA staff that participated in visiting the VA nursing home.
057The vets really appreciated our time and some were amazed that teachers can teach and be involved in the roller derby. From Clipper, shout out to Miss Sharp. She has been a wonderful addition to the Clipper team as our art teacher. Shout out to the cafeteria staff for rocking lunches COVID style. All the classroom teachers for taking the news like a champ of eating breakfast and lunch in the classrooms for a week. Encore teachers for helping out in each grade level with the changes to breakfast and lunch. The maintenance team for working non-stop in our kitchen to get us back to eating in the cafeteria. Shout out to Miss Slinker during our book fair. She jumped in and assisted with the register, which is a very difficult job. There's a lot of pressure there. Talk the
058CTC. A big thank you to all the staff who made the ribbon cutting and trade show at the advanced welding center such a tremendous success. from early childhood. Everyone at the ECC should be committed for the fabulous parent night Thursday peaceful evening. The the building looks great. Everyone did a superb job. From Franklin, Miss Ramfile does an amazing job at keeping our hallways full of student artwork that makes our school look fabulous. Miss Federhoff was able to put up put together a great book fair. We appreciate all the extra work that goes into the setup and take down of the materials. Mr. Mr. Keith is working extra time to help keep our school clean. Miss Peters stepped in and helped Mr. Keith with keeping the school look looking nice. Miss Har is leading our school
059syncopation group and they are sounding great. Miss Beard is amazing and always there to lend a helping hand in a kind word from the high school to all the teachers that have stayed late to help supervise sporting events. Miss WHML and the teachers for taking second place at region cheer competition and qualifying for state. Again, good way of the cheerleaders for our successful little cheer camp counselors for all the work administrating the PSAT. To all the teachers that came in early and stayed late to help with official bus counts. Shout out to all the teachers that agreed to drop. So, from Jefferson, Heather Fischer for creating the Jefferson PreK pumpkin patch. The kids absolutely love visiting the pumpkin patch and participating in the fun activities she has planned for them. This is an experience they
060will never forget. from the junior high. Michaela McNeel and Aaron Matti put on a amazing junior Beta Club dance. The students had an amazing time and we appreciate all the time and effort that goes into creating such a big event to help create experiences and cherish me memories for all our students. Natalie Reese has gone above and beyond this year with all the students needing tested, IEPs, meetings, and sorting through proper student placements. We appreciate all of her hard work and diligence and ensuring all students needs are met. from the middle school. Mr. Delo and Miss Centers did an amazing job organizing our first field trip of the year. They spent so much time creating documents, organizing no-go rooms, and then making sure everything runs smoothly that day. Thanks to Miss Gorbin and Miss Hartman
061for helping to make copies of work packets for the students who are not able to attend the field trip. Our special education team is unmatched. Our teachers and TAs do a phenomenal job building relationships with our students and families while also managing their case loads and meeting our kids where they are. Thank you to Miss Hartman for all of her hard work. She goes above and beyond every day to make sure teachers and students have all they need. She is always willing to jump in and make sure subs have all they need to keep the classroom running smoothly. She is amazing. Thank you, Miss Ross. Miss Ross is always quick to help whenever she's needed. She's a wealth of knowledge and if she doesn't know or if she doesn't have the answer, she will find
062it for you. She will make she maintains a cool, calm demeanor no matter who she is talking to. She is amazing. Shout out to the sixth grade ELA team who are rocking it by working together on a new novel study. They make and find resources for each other and collaborate well to help each other and our students. Shout out to Miss Lewis for being an amazing first year teacher. She is knowledgeable, calm, attentive, helpful, and supportive to students and her team. She's a great asset to CMS. Shout out to Mr. Wilson who is always such a positive and engaging presence among our staff. His willingness to step in, listen, and help solve any challenges that come up truly make a difference. The way he consistently shows up in our halls, checks in with teachers, and
063stays present is a reflection of how deeply he cares about our school community. We are so grateful for his support and dedication. Shout out to Mr. Bradshaw for his amazing work in social studies. Thank you so much for letting me share positivity. >> Thank you very much. [applause] >> Bring the oxygen. [laughter] So, Miss Dudek, we expect some energy for the Treasury and Finance report. >> Don't Don't bring us down. Keep us up. [laughter] >> Okay. So, talk about the district finance. >> Sounds exciting. [laughter] There we go. We started with the beginning fund balance of $20.1 million which is amazing. Uh revenues received for the month is 1.4 million expenses 2.1. Um this is not unusual for our expenses to be exceeding our revenues especially at this time of year. Transferring 1.6 6 million
064to special revenue fund to cover um certified staff salaries, leaving us with an ending fund balance in the general fund of 17.8 million. Um September is also when we make our bond payments. We make bond payments two times a year. Um September and March, so you'll see under the debt service fund $949,000 of interest payments that remain from our account. Um cash and investment detail is listed below. Does anyone have any questions? >> No, but that is exciting. Thank you for for managing so well. Anybody have any questions for Miss Dudek? >> All right. Thank you very much. >> Thank you. >> All right. Districtwide athletic report. Mr. Moyer, sir. >> Good evening. >> I'll be quick as well. The high school fall season is wrapping up with softball, volleyball, girls golf, and girls tennis
065having completed their seasons. Harper Mccclard competed at the state golf tournament and finished 22nd on. >> Thanks, buddy. So, um, Harper Mccclard competed at the state golf tournament and finished 22nd in a field of 86 golfers. Uh, she was four strokes off of being all state. Uh, and I'm telling you, I went out there to watch. It was a brutal uh the wind was awful. It was just that was last Monday and Tuesday and it was really and she I told her at the end most impressive thing is how well she uh represented Cape because she kept a smile on her face. She never she you know she just kept plugging away. She's just a great kid and and we're happy to have her representing us. It's hard to believe but winter sports triyouts start
066next week, right? So we're already into the into those uh seasons as well. We are hosting uh as uh Mr. Cook alluded to earlier, we're hosting boys soccer districts. We just finished well tomorrow night's the championship of the volleyball districts uh that we hosted here at Cape. We're hosting the boys soccer districts uh starting on Monday of next week. Our finals for that for that tournament will be the 10th at Tiger Stadium at 6:00. District football begins this Thursday. Uh we are not playing on Halloween uh which is something that the state affords you to do to move a game uh up a up a day or or back. So we decided to move that to Thursday we host Melville at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday night. We are also hosting cross country districts. Um as
067well this Saturday at the Oage Center. Uh this is as you have heard me say we're volleyball, soccer, cross country uh um and obviously our football games that we host. Derek's really put in a lot of time. you know, our coaches want to obviously have home games. Well, there's a lot of work that goes in to hosting those district tournaments. I mean, it's a ton and and he wants to support our coaches. Um, you know, I at this point in right now, he's probably thinking, "What was I thinking?" But he's he's uh he's done a great job of making sure and supporting our coaches in that way. And and we have great facilities uh that that we're able to to uh promote and hosting those tournaments as well. Boys swimming and diving. Did I say
068cross country? Yeah, cross country on Saturday. That's at the Oage Center, right at the at the C at Simo's course. Boy swimming and diving will compete in their conference meet next week followed by the state meet. Um band I don't know if you guys saw this. It was on the FAB three so I saw but the band and cheer band cheering football players that went to uh Newbridge Retirement Community that was really cool. Um it was set up and and and they got to go go do that and they they loved doing that. The competition cheer team, as uh Shannon alluded to, finished second at their regional competition and are competing in their state competition this Saturday at the Hearns in Hearn Center in Colombia. So, we're excited for coach Wall and her staff and
069all the girls at the junior high level. Their fall seasons have completed uh as well and girls basketball is well underway while boys basketball's practices have started and boys basketball wrestling's practices practices have started. I don't know why that was so hard for me to say. Elementary and middle school news. Volleyball and cross country have wrapped up their seasons and flag football is coming to a close in a couple of weeks. Uh coach Frasier finished his youth basketball camp last week and signups for that season. Both boys and girls basketball end at the end of this week. Uh as you'll see some more messaging coming out about that. Uh we had visitors uh from from the junior high football and cheer team come to the ECC next door for their very own high five Thursday
070last week. You know, we have high five Fridays at our elementarymentaries and and u Miss Doran asked like, "Hey, you know, we're not in school on Fridays. Can they come?" So, um Mr. Connor and Darren Neils worked to get some kids cheer junior high football and walk them over here and they did the morning and both both stops and they had a ball doing it. They got some good pictures. I'm going to put on the roar. But uh they uh one of the kids told coach Connor when he's walking back. He goes, "I think we really made those kids day." So, so it it was it was neat. And they had uh somebody dressed up in Tigers as well. So, inflatable tigers. It was good. Uh CGPS day at SEMO football game was on October
07111th. We received special pricing through our educators advantage uh program and $5.73 of every ticket purchase with our code went to the foundation. So, we're excited about our partnership with Simo. We'll have another one of those and during basketball and baseball seasons. So, be looking for that information coming out. >> Anybody got any questions for me? >> Um, Saturday morning they had youth football or what was that at the >> Heartland football league? >> That was really cool. There's a lot of different towns. >> Championship day. We we host championship day once every whatever that rotation is on the number of kids. So, yeah, we had that we had those schools here for that. And then for tickets, for all the district stuff, you're sending out notes and all that stuff. >> Yeah, he sent
072they sent an alert out today via email on hometown. That's the difference between week 10 and then our for you talking about football. >> Yeah. Or for any of them for that matter. But yeah, for football >> for for any for any of our district tournaments, the Misha has hometown ticketing, which is what we used to use as their district as their platform. So we have to go through that uh that particular uh platform to be able to buy tickets online tickets for our games for districts and and uh quarterfinals or anything going on past that. So >> versus we had used bound. >> Yes. Yeah. Yeah. And Bound's been I don't know what it has been for those of you that used it on the product side, but I know our people that are
073using it like Calvin who I like to try to keep happy. He uh he loves it. In fact, has told me several times, if you get rid of this, I'm going to smack you upside the head. So, >> duly noted. I don't want Calvin smacking me. So, >> yes, hometown ticketing is where we'll buy buy district tickets. >> Yep. Anybody have any questions? >> All right. Thank you very much, sir. Appreciate it. All right. Board reports. So, MSBA delegate report. Miss Lynn, do you have anything you want to throw out for being our delegate at the MSBA? >> Kind of sort of. It was really brief. It was very unusual. [laughter] Um, that's just not uh our opinion because uh Miss Crystal went along with me and um there were seven proposals. Three, if I
074remember correctly, three were approved and then after when it got to the fourth one to review it, it just shut down. You know, we don't know exactly what happened. Um, we'll probably ask questions uh maybe later on in this week. Um, do you have anything to add because it was it was very unusual. >> Yeah, there were seven proposals in the book, but they only brought four up for a vote. And the fourth one was split to the point that they had to actually keep everybody's hands up and count and then do a double count to make sure >> and then after that they just said, "Okay." >> It just shut it just shut everything down. It's like I was like, "Well, what happened to five and six and seven?" [laughter] >> I wonder the
075same. >> It's like what's going on here? >> So, I didn't know that was just typical. >> So, that was very um that was very unusual, not just for myself, but the uh for the other alternates and and delegates that were there. So, um that's all I I can report on that. It was unusual. And maybe later on down the road, we'll hear exactly what happened or what all that meant. >> Well, thank you. Thank you for representing. >> Yes, of course. They have good snacks maybe or something for the show. I legislative report. >> Yes. Um Jamie, I have a link in there if you'll pull up. Um first of all, just save the date. March 10th, Tuesday, March 10th is advocacy day in Jeff City for MSBA. Last year I went with Dr.
076Bignyan and Jared went and we knew pretty briefly before then. We didn't have a lot of lead time up until when we went. So anyway, now you have some notice. March 10th, mark it in your calendars and hopefully a good group of us can get up there for that. It was very enjoyable. So it's a good day to get up there. Um, okay. The other thing I wanted to talk about is at the MSBA conference, I sat in on one of the sessions that I sat in on was um a woman named Janet Tilly. She's the senior director of research for the MSBA. And so she has a new section of the MSBA website called Future Builders Research Center. Her tagline on there is research not rhetoric and she talked about how her goal is
077to provide board members with clear researchbased guidance. So she has it organized. I was just going to kind of briefly go through the link is in our agenda. So if you guys want to kind of look at this more thoroughly in your own time um you can access it through there. But so at the top she's basically got a framework of five key components and then as you go further down she has her research sorted into where it falls in those those components. Um each topic is broken basically into two links. The first is like a very detailed research paper like some of them are like 30 pages 50 pages. So, if you really want to get into like the nitty-gritty of topics, you certainly can. But the second option is an infographic, usually about
078two pages where she kind of synthesizes all the info from her long research and gives it into like an easy thing that both for you to look through and kind of get some information, but also they're really great handouts if the topics that she has up there. If there's ever a time you're speaking to a legislator or even to a parent about some of these topics, it's it's a very easy way to get your point across to people. Um, one of them that I was going to point out, I mean, and they're all like this, so I'm just I just picked one, but Jamie, if you go to the provide financial Yep. stewardship. Exactly. The infographic. Yes. So on this one, what they did was they ranked states 1 to 51 in terms of like
079quality of the school and then at the same time they sorted them basically chose five states that are comparable to Missouri like by demographics or median household income, population, like found five states that were similar to us and compared our ranking to those states and then from there went further and said, "Okay, on these states that are doing better, how much money are they getting from local sources versus state sources? And you can see just briefly by looking at it that Missouri gets like >> the next page. >> Sorry, >> it's a next page. >> Oh, yeah. Missouri gets a significant portion. I forget the exact number, but it's like 60% from local versus 40 from state. Is that sounding right? >> Go up one more right there. >> Is that what you're talking about?
080Yes. Yep. 34 from the total like right from state total 34%. But then like if you look at Wisconsin they're ranked six 50% of their funding is coming from state. So you can see it's like exactly flipped. If you go down further it also talks about like per pupil what they're spending. It's just an interesting she really just dives in deep into what some of these numbers mean and how they affect students and the schools. There [clears throat] are a variety of topics, but it's also brand new. So, one of the things that she talked about, her contact info is at the very bottom, but like one of the points of the session was if there's information along these lines that you're interested in knowing more about, she wants emails and she wants feedback of
081what are other topics that you think would be helpful to you as a board member uh to, you know, help represent your school better, basically. So, I just wanted to bring that to everybody's attention. >> Thank you very much. >> That's all I got. >> Thank you very much. We have any questions? Okay. P Cape Public School Foundation. Easy for you to say. >> Yes. Miss McDonald obviously is not here. She's out of town. However, um she wanted me to remind everyone to mark your calendars for February the 14th, 2026 because that's the next penguin party. And um that is basically what they've been working on a whole lot of that and pushing forward. So mark your calendars. February the 14th. Yes, it's Valentine's Day. So don't let that hold you back because it's going
082to be one knockout of a penguin party. >> Thank you very much. >> You're welcome. >> Up next is non-action items. So we have our first reading of board policies. So I'm going to read through these. Um, policy EHBD, artificial intelligence use. Policy IGBA-1, special education. Policy JCA-2, eligibility to enroll. Policy JFCJ, weapons in school. Policy JGF, discipline reporting and recording. Policy JHDF, suicide awareness and prevention. Policy GCPA, reduction in professional staff. Policy JC-1, school admissions. Policy JFCA, student dress code. Policy JG, student discipline. Policy JHDE, behavioral threat assessment. Policy JHG, reporting and investigating child abuse and neglect. Uh so again, we'll have these on here one more time and then we will vote to approve these policies. So yes, sir, please. >> On policy J, excuse me, [clears throat] JCA eligibility to enroll. >>
083We kept all the revisions on that copy of the policy. We actually have to make a recommendation to our editor at MSBA about how we wanted that adopted. >> We are recommending um to have custom revisions done on that that would allow for our current policy to be implemented the same way where active employees of the district have eligibility to enroll even though they reside outside of our school district. >> But we are not recommending that contracted or contractors of the district would have eligibility to enroll. So those third parties, they would be excluded out of that. We left all the language for you guys to review since it's first reading, but that's our recommendation moving forward. >> And then also the artificial intelligence change. I don't know if you wanted to hit on that.
084That's going to be one that everybody voted on it and and we're not at that point to adopt that specific. >> Yeah, there's already been a lot of changes to it in the last single year as you guys have seen already. And so we're we're still holding back on that because a lot of it overlaps with current technology policy and current um other staff policies. >> And just as a reminder too, there is a policy review committee that that might be what it's called, but there's a group of Is that what it's called? Good. >> I'm on it. So [laughter] I' I've did vote. I've read them. I didn't know what that committee was called, though. I just get the emails. Um, and so there's I'm not quite sure how many people there are, but
085it's a pretty big cross-section across the district that these are reviewed. And so these amendments and changes and so they're discussed um a lot uh handed around before they come out here. So just as a reminder and I got the name of it right, so that's good. Good. >> Yeah. All right. Up next, approval of consent agenda items. Uh so we have payment of bills and adoption of local uh compliance plan. Uh can we get a motion for those? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Okay. All those in favor? >> Any opposed? >> So our payment of bills and adoption of local compliance plan are both approved and Miss Mandy will sign it and hand it to you. No problem at all. All right. Business. Uh do we have any other business? Not at all.
086Okay. Any information and proposals from board members? Okay. Take that. So, last up, we have a motion to adjurnn. >> So, move. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> I. All right, guys. Thank you all very much.