001all right well we will get started thanks for coming out um we are live streaming and uh we'll put this up on our website for folks that couldn't be here but I appreciate all of you being here to hear a little bit about the work of our redistricting committee that's been um meeting for the last several weeks so welcome and I am not Dr Michael Sullivan uh he is one of our assistant superintend but he is sick so he was not feeling well yesterday came to work and this morning texted me and said I I can't I'm just not going to be there so uh those of you that have been on the redistricting committee he has led all of the sessions that we've done and has done a great job so uh I was
002sorry that he couldn't uh see the the committee process all the way through to completion um but uh he he entrusted uh Mrs Al day and myself to uh share this information about the work of the redistricting committee so um but he he did a great job leading us through the last few weeks so if you participated in the redistricting committee will you stand up awesome very good so thank you we'll talk a little bit more about the committee um o that that uh that met the makeup of the committee and those kinds of things uh as we go through we also have two school board members here Mrs Smith and Mrs parent if you'd like to stand up [Applause] we've had school board representation at every one of our meetings and really appreciate their
003investment in uh supporting the the work that we've been doing so tonight's agenda uh we're going to go through some of the the really it's this meeting is intended to be a recap of the last six meetings that the redistricting committee uh had so this committee spent about 10 to 12 hours um over the last six weeks studying redistricting studying starting in time um and we're going to try to capture about 12 hours worth of work in about 45 minutes to an hour so uh We've really worked hard to try to condense the work of the committee um because of that to be mindful of your time we we're not going to take questions tonight because all of the questions that have been gathered over the last six weeks are on our website from from
004the committee so we counted them up and Mrs Al day is going to show that give you some more information on that but there are 71 questions answered on our website that the committee asked so we'll hang around after the meeting if anybody has questions but my what I would encourage anyone to do if after this session you think I wonder this my guess is we've already answered that question on the website and if not reach out to any one of us and and we'll be glad to add to it uh but we're going to review uh the the FAQ some definitions some boundaries Starting In Time the priorities we heard from the committee the feedback from the committee and then we'll get into reviewing the models so since so many of you here were
005on the committee you've seen this slide we started every meeting by going over our protocols and Norms we had note cards at every meeting and so the committee was great as questions came up they left note cards for us and then our team would meet the next day and draft answers to those questions U and the the committee was great we started and ended on time uh lots of great questions lots of positive intent um lots of um and we talked every time about the good of the many uh outweighs the needs of of of a few and so great conversations in our committee we have several folks from our transportation department here Mr Hon's here director director of Transportation Teresa Clark is here she is the routing coordinator from Transportation um so the the
006data the maps everything that uh is available really uh Teresa helped create through our system and we'll talk about that a little bit more and then Kevin gray uh co-director of Transportation was involved in every meeting but he uh is out of town today as well we always started every meeting with our vision as a school district that we uh want to be a nationally recognized District of choice that Embraces all students and prepares them to grow and Thrive for our future everything we do as a district we funnel through that vision is it uh we try to live out that vision and everything that we do and we also started every meeting by reviewing our three goals that the board has set for us we have three strategic goals goals the first one is
007centered around student achievement the second one about systematic and purposeful Innovation for kids and the third one focused on supporting the whole child and we really wanted to start every meeting through that lens of the vision and the goals we have as a district and how our structures and our systems and our supports allow us to meet those goals so with that Mrs Al days going to go into some of the data that we shared hi I'm Carrie Al day and I'm assistant superintendent for teaching and learning so I worked with the committee for the last six weeks and it's been a just a great experience and so again I'm just going to share some of the pieces of information we shared with them so um this graph really shows some of our student growth
008so if our the last school that we built in Avon schools is River Birch Elementary and we built River Birch back in 2010 so since 2010 we've grown over 2200 students without open up a new school if you go in our schools if your kids are in our schools we're using every space possible um we're you I mean we have been very creative we even had to get to the place where we had to get some Portables um so those portable classrooms and we're at the point now that we had to say okay what's next because we don't have any more space and so our our board's been a great Steward of really of taxpayer funds and of leveraging all of our space and so last year we did a lot of work on how
009and getting feedback from our community is like what's next and um based on that they the community gave us some feedback and the one piece of feedback is less transitions for students is better and so what we did through some of this work and is think about uh we brought currently our fifth and sixth grade are in the intermediate schools and we are bringing our fifth grade back to the elementary so right now this year we have six elementaries when we next year we eight elementary schools intermediate East will transition to Evergreen Elementary Intermediate West will turn will transition to Willow Elementary and each of those schools will be K5 Elementary School the other feedback we heard from our community was at that middle school age smaller middle schools is better and so we are
010currently building um a new middle school and so our we have three middle schools and they will all house grades sixth grade through e8th grade it'll give kids some more time and it'll give families time to know get to know staff and our staff time to get to know our students and our families so we'll continue to have north and south and then we're building Middle School West right now and all of this will be done for the start of the school year and the Great Piece all of this is it does not increase any um it doesn't increase taxes and we are not using any referendum dollars to do this construction project and so our committee so we had nice robust committee and we had some different goals through this work of our committee
011and so our first meeting we really just set foundation and at that point we even had to talk about you know in schools we sometimes have like our own School language and we had to Define some things with transportation and this so we just built that foundation and the next two meetings we really focus on boundaries so it's like what parts of the of Avon will go to which schools and then from there we transition we went two meetings talking about those start and end times like what are we going to do with start and end times and then our last meeting um we brought I mean we really we tried to bring start and end times and boundaries together and get in get some work from our get feedback from our our committee so
012our committee so typically when we do redistricting committee we have about 25 people and that is the committee well we decided this is such a big piece and it impacts kindergarten through e8th grade we really wanted to expand the ask so um everyone in our district was asked if they want to be part of this committee and so we sent it through parents Square I think Dr Windham sent a video message and so um we had 149 people show interest in the committee and then across the different meetings we averaged about 80 um 80 participants at every meeting and kudos to those people it was about the same people at all six meetings which is a big commitment and a lot of people I think probably have interest but it's also like do you have
013the time to do it the second graph on here shows who was a representation of the committee so you'll see we had a nice representation of people who had K students in kindergarten 24 we had a nice group five six seven eight in high school and some parents could represent multiple of age groups if they have multiple kids so a great committee so throughout tonight you're going to hear from a couple of our committe members members and they're going to give a little testimonial of what was it like to be on the committee and so our first is Mr Jason K claser and he's gonna come and talk about his experience on the committee okay hello everyone um uh as she uh mentioned my name is Jason cazer I have a daughter who is in
014seventh grade I have a son who who is a sophomore and I'm also the husband to uh my wife who is a speech therapist at the high school here in Avon so I am both a parent and a I guess bouse to an employee um so it's so get to hear some of the fun stories uh coming home from that aspect um I actually was not able to join the very first meeting so I went in a little bit blind uh into the second meeting and for me from an experienced perspective I wasn't real sure what I was walking into um I think they did a great job of setting kind of the ground rules and making the transition from each meeting to meeting so that as you were able to come and go it
015was easy to pick up um they mentioned the the note cards and question box I think they may have been regretting that after the first or second meeting um at the end of the first day we saw a number of slides that had some data on them and you guys can all see those online but at the end of the day there were still a lot of opportunity to dig deeper into the information and the data and for me my job in the in daytime is in it so I spent a lot of time around data and information systems um so I think I had six or seven different index cards that I submitted that night of different data elements that would be helpful to look at and understand and I don't know if this
016was part of the plan or not but they then came back with a whole stack of data so I don't know if it was in the plan or if it was a hey we're going to throw a bunch of data at them and get them to shut up and and and so we can get through this process right um but at the end of the day that the data was extremely helpful right and being able to look at it from a uh an abstract uh way right and being able to take some of the emotion out of it we all have our own preferences and ideas on what's best for our family but really looking at it in the context of what's best for the community and all the kids and the students as a
017whole um is really where I I think everyone really red around um as we got into the boundaries that's an area where I was like I I was super surprised at how complicated that was right and I have the utmost appreciation for all the data crunching work uh that that went into trying to figure out how we show this picture in a way that still achieves the outcomes that we all Aspire and and all want to see uh from a so socioeconomical balance from an ethnicity balance and from a balance of mult multilingual students uh to give all of our kids within the district the great experiences that they get today by embracing those various different aspects of diversity in the community um we've looked at I don't even know how many actual options we
018ended up looking at uh but I think at the end of the day we narrowed it down to a couple that uh really account for all those different pieces um and I think maybe we even went at least half a session if not a session longer on boundaries than I think we originally planned um which unfortunately then on the flip side of it started to then cut the the time school start time conversation a little short I think that is an area personally where I think we could have spent a little more time the the neurological studies and the neuroscience and the Pediatric studies that have been done are undisputable you there's all sorts of research you can look at I found some great articles from Europe there are a number of from other different
019institutions both that um they were able to bring to us or various different academic universities and other science-based companies that are doing research in that space But at the end of the day you have to be able to balance all of that with the logistics and needs of parents and extracurriculars and all the other things so that one for me is an area where I think we could have dug a little more into what are the true priorities from a outcome and benefit for the kids uh and and their learning uh and and what the different options are um by no means is it an easy choice but at the end of the day I think the options you saw or you will see uh as you look at the data are good options um
020I think there's maybe a little more to dig into around the the high school start times um the last thing I'll hit on from my my experience perspective that I think is another area that um we'll just need some continued discussion um again the the group leading us through this discussion was really good about considering U as many aspects as possible in the short amount of time that we have although six weeks doesn't really seem like a short amount of time um it it went by quick right and and found ourselves at least I found myself pretty frequently having more follow-up questions that I'd throw in the hopper and I'm sure they spent lots of fun time on Thursday mornings talking through all those fun things but one area that I think that that we
021also need to give a little bit of a a closer look at is the impact that all of this will have on how we're setting up our strive and impact programs um lumping that population into the common student population uh and looking at the same characteristics the same values the same benefits for that population and and starting to look at class sizes and some of those things um I think we just need to be very intentional about making sure we have enough space at the schools that we've identified to be the schools where those programs will be hosted so that we can Ensure that we're setting them up for Success not just for today but ask things real in the future thank you Jason and the Great Piece is I I we probably didn't share
022but we have been very intentional about um setting our stri and our impact programs up and our Architects are working on to make sure we're really thoughtful about what um what their needs are and their spaces but agree that's a group we have to be really thoughtful with their trans so thank you so we have been um since we started this back um with our restructuring we've been working through a timeline um and so we back in September of 2024 this kind of shows our road map but September is when we start that redistricting um committee work right now we're at the community input um this will go through November of when it goes through our school board ultimately they'll make our the decision and then that's when it starts all the next steps um
023then we the families will know where their children are going to school next year and our staff will know typically we don't do this process this early typically this happens in the spring but we knew this was a massive one with kindergarten through eighth grade we wanted to give our families ample time if there's adjustments that they need to make with child care or different pieces and we also want to give our staff members ample time they might be teaching different grade levels different subject areas and we want to make sure they have time to feel prepared and the best for our students and so that's why we did it earlier in this time and the piece is as you're driving on Avon you see a lot of construction happening but that's all even the
024high school everything will be completed um for our July opening of next school year so at our meetings they really followed the same format even though we did different things we always had what our goal was um and we really leveraged the committee to help us with our prior priorities the district came with priorities like for boundaries by all means we have priorities based on what our transportation needs are but we also want to know what were the priorities of our communities and our families um and based on that that's when we came back and um the transportation team we all work together to come up with models to bring back to the committee we've evaluated those models and um that's where we're at now we're presenting to the community and then ultim we'll get
025all this feedback gathered and that feedback will be created put in a report for our school board as Dr Wen shared earlier um as you're as you're thinking about this and digesting all this and wanting to get dig deeper if you go on our website there's a a wealth of information and the nice piece you could scan the QR code but if not when you get home you can just go to Avon school's website and if you scroll down there's different boxes and one of the boxes that you can select is redistricting and if you select the redistricting there's G to be multiple things in there um the one piece you have a recap of every meeting so if you want to look at the six meetings uh our communications director was there at each
026meeting and he took notes and he Recaps each one another piece there's a couple podcasts that you can listen to Dr Windham Dr solivan and I talk about some of this work and then I think the the wealth of information will be in the questions from the committee again again there's 71 questions in there they're organized really well and so probably a lot of the questions you might have right now are the ones they had so you can look through those questions and then we have answers to all of those um additionally you'll find the um the boundary maps that we're going to be taking to the board on there and uh and with the boundary maps with the committee set are strengths and challenges for each map and you also see the models for
027start and end times so again we talked about three meetings on boundaries and when you think about boundaries boundaries are kind of exactly what they sound like it's like what is that area that boundary area of of neighborhoods of homes of kids that will go to a school so there's Elementary boundaries then there's Middle School boundaries because they bring multiple elementaries together and obviously all of Avon school districts are High School boundaries so this map right here um is our current boundaries this is what we're living right now in 2425 um and so you can see each elementary school so they' be six on here um attend has a different color and that's the school if you live in that area that is the school you attend so when we think how do you create
028boundaries like it it is like I mean there's an art and a science creating a boundary um if you think about it we actually have a software program that we use for transportation for buses and in there um it feels like magic to me but it's not magic but you can go in there and you can like if you think like almost like an ed a sketch you can say okay we're gonna make this a boundary and we make say we make this a boundary let's say for Sycamore Elementary then the computer will tell us like a how many students would go to Sycamore Elementary and then what about the like the student demographics so it will tell us the percentage of students um like the socioeconomics so sometimes here I say that's like the
029percentage of students who are free in reduced lunch it will tell us about the ethnicity at that school it will tell us about what percentage of kids are multilingual and we do really want to look at that we want to balance that across our school district um and so really that's how we create boundaries and we are looking really how do we balance it how do you balance it across the school knowing some of our school elementary schools are going to be larger than others because they have they're larger schools than other schools and the middle middle schools we're trying to think how can we really balance and have similar size middle schools the three middle schools so once we started this work we really talked about priorities and like what's a priority to one
030person might not be a priority to another person because there is like what works best for my family but we try to look at this too as a collective group and so when we started this as I said the district has some priorities with boundaries we wanted to be thoughtful about student ride time we want to think about the balance of enrollment side we also want to balance that the student demographics and we do have some pieces that the federal government will even tell us you really should when you if you think about your student demographics they shouldn't range more than 15% so that means if one school is free and reduced lunch is around 50% you wouldn't want another school being at 30% because that's too much variance um we also to think there
031was a real piece about Transportation capability right now Avon there we have a a bus driver shortage but that's not just an Avon thing this is across the nation and so we really strive to get all of our buses on time every day and part of that is we have to be really thoughtful about the capabilities of our transportation department um another piece is a feeder system and the feeder system really means which elementary schools will then feed up to a middle school so we try to have where it's not just like then all the kids are put back in the pot and then um or I mean split up again for middle schools and then we wanted to maintain neighborhoods and subdivisions so we didn't want neighborhoods and subdivisions that were split so that
032was our priorities then we asked the commit all the committee had time to brainstorm and write on Post-it notes what what are their priorities and so they were able to put all their priorities out there and then at the end they were even able of this portion of the of the committee work they were able to say looking at our commit at our priorities and their pri priorities what were the top five priorities and that's what you're seeing right now so from their feedback um transportation was the top priority like ride time availability and then proximity the next one was balance school size they wanted us to have to keep our small class sizes which is thankful to our refer our past referendum for our our community members and they wanted the small classes but
033they also wanted room to grow like they we want to get out of the business of portable classes um the other was balance with student demographics they wanted to keep our feeder system and they wanted neighborhoods to stay together so that was the priority from the committee the top five I'm gonna throw it back to Dr wend so we spent some time in our first one of our early meetings talking about boundaries and spending some time about reading the boundary Maps because it's one thing to see the visual and the colors excuse me and how they break down it's another thing for this committee to really dig into what these Maps mean so we spent some time on this map and we created this knowing it would not work but we wanted to use it
034as a teaching tool so I am sometimes asked in our current boundary map why does the River Birch boundary run east to west why do most of our map our boundary lines run east to west so as we were creating Middle School models and like Carrie said this program makes it pretty easy to draw the lines in different places we created a model where our Middle School boundaries went north to south and what that does is you can see how uneven our three Middle School enrollment size would be so even though this whole western part of the district is huge geographically if we drew the lines This Way Middle School West would open with 450 students we told the committee our goal to open the three middle schools was to open around 800 so to
035open a brand new Middle School that we designed for 800 students with 450 did not seem appropriate Middle School South and this even though it's right here in the middle and it looks small geographically Middle School South would open with a,2 students well outside that range of what we what we were hoping for and middle school north would open with 935 so the enrollment was unbalanced and then as Carri talked about if you look down at the bottom this is where on every map that the committee considered we looked at the ranges of demographics so if we did this version there would be a 42% Gap range in socioeconomic status between the three middle schools Carrie just said our Target was 15% so a 42% spread between uh middle schools would be well outside that
036boundary same thing ethnicity 44% spread and so uh this was very compelling I think to the committee to be able to see that when you see our new maps the ones that are being considered and they all are more oriented east to west that's part of how number one we find the overall enrollment balance between schools and that socioeconomic um and demographic balance between schools so in our committee um and Carrie touched on this a little bit um our format stayed very similar and that we would start presenting content updating on questions that they had asked in the previous session and then we always broke off into small groups for uh really to dig in and have more conversations and more questions we had some parameters that guided each uh session that we were in
037when we broke out and then we came back together um to to wrap up so this slide is actually a slide that even our committee hasn't seen because um at our last meeting uh we brought them a new model so they had get through the feedback from the committee um and uh we also engaged a demographer which we have not done in previous redistricting but we wanted to have an outside analysis of what our enrollment projections would be so when transportation and the amazing ter a Clark draws her lines around our Maps that's looking at our current students what we have never had in the past was a demographer to say well if you draw the lines that way that's what it's going to look like in five years this is what it's going to
038look like in 10 years we had that uh this time uh because the school board engaged a demographer uh to make this process even more um um solid is to have that outside perspective So based on all those items we came back to the committee in uh our last meeting and brought them a 4B at the end of that meeting uh we asked the committee to rank their uh the four models that they had seen model one model two model 4 a and model 4B so you can see that the committee um more had more support for model one and then um support for model 4B you might wonder why is there no model 3 there was a model 3 it got kicked out pretty early in the process so just for our own uh
039tracking we decided to keep the numbers the way they were uh but we had two different we had a 1A and a 1B early on in the process we had a model three um and so uh at this point really the two models that have the most support based off of the work of this committee is model one and model 4B so you have those as handouts um and they will be on our website so if you're watching online you'll be able to download these uh off the website site as a PDF um so if you would pull out the handout that says model one we're going to take a look at that here real quick just to give you some orientation um us36 goes kind of right in the middle we've labeled that if
040you look closely you can see it you can also see we've labeled some of the north south roads so you can see um a little to the left of halfway is Avon Avenue kind of right in the middle of the district is Dan Jones Road going north and south and then you can see how we break apart uh the boundaries between our eight elementary schools in this model the other thing uh I'll point out is as you look at these models and we're not going to dig into them deeply tonight but on the left of the page you can see where we have slotted in some of the newer developments that we know uh are happening on the right of the page you can see the overall breakdown of enrollment at each of the schools
041and then along the bottom is the demographic range so for example model one in elementary you can see the range of our socioeconomic status is 14% well right within that range of what we wanted to be under 15% the other thing I'll point out that for those of you that haven't looked at these Maps as much as the the committee has you'll see a couple schools on this this uh on both models that are split and they're noted off to the right there's a number and then it says split that just means that those schools are split between two middle schools so Carrie mentioned earlier that one of the priorities from the committee was maintaining a feeder system knowing that this Elementary will feed to this Middle School we were able to do that in
042most situations but in both models you'll see that there are split elementaries we have had split elementaries in the past when white oak was an elementary school half of white oak went to Intermediate West half of white oak went to intermediate East so they're only split between two schools so kids will likely still have friends that go to the the middle school but it might not be all of their class from Elementary going to the same middle school so I just wanted to explain what split means when you see that uh in model one for example Maple and Hickory are split schools that would be feeding to two Middle School schools so wanted to take another break here and give a chance for one of our other um redistricting committee members to to share a
043little bit about his experience and so Brad Reed is going to talk about that a little bit than I'm not going to go over all these documents hello everyone my name is Brad Reed thank you for the opportunity to speak here today uh I am the father of a ninth grader and a sixth grader and a beautiful wife and entrepreneur and I'm also a realtor so I have a long list of clients that want to buy a house but only if it's in if it's an Avon Community School District so thank you for making my job hard but thank you for your great work in the past and current uh for our society for our community and for our children uh over the next three hours I'm going to talk about my okay I'll leave
044out a lot of jokes uh want to talk about my experience before I was a realtor I was a lean Six Sigma Master black belt that means that I did statistical statistically proven process Improvement for large organizations uh and I facilitated and taught people how to run meetings like this for C Level and BP level Executives for Eli Lily Pharmaceuticals Delta Faucet company Dell computers and several opportunities in the Department of Defense the reason I I share that with you is to let youall know that this meeting was professionally done on the highest of Consultants level I don't even want to think about what it would have cost the taxpayers if they had outsourced it but it would not have been better uh better conducted the opportunities for us to speak were unbiased they were
045open-ended um if there was not time there was a place where we could ask our question and get it voiced later uh it was uh amazingly and professionally done um I love the opportunity to say thank you to the committee members and to our administrators welld deserved compliments but the reason I I'm taking your time on this is to know that the results that came are professionally done they're unbiased they are true they are what the parents uh the the taxpayers and the voters of this community want it is what the teachers the principes and the administrators think is best for our our children uh one of the the reasons that I joined the the committee was for the discussion about the school start times my kids started in kindergarten and as I said they've
046gone through that transition to 9th and sixth grade they experienced the 7 AM uh start times and I know it's rough but maybe that's just my experience right what do the community say uh Mrs Al day brought us an an article I believe hers was from the American Psychological Association um I did some research and found several articles from that organization as well as the American Academy of Pediatrics spoiler alert later school start times for adolescents improves their mental health their attendance their grades and uh fewer car crashes which is uh uh not one that we discussed but I quickly looked up the major causes of death in children and Adolescence car crashes is at the top uh mental Health uh suicides are second so in summary because I'm over my time than I'm in
047smacking distance um the results that are done that are presented to the board today they're what the parents want okay they are what the teachers and administrators want to deliver right they we can design the ship but they have to sail the ship right it's theirs it's what they want and due to psychological pH DS MDS all kinds of D's it's what our children need so for the community members I ask that you support the recommendation and board members I uh ask that you vote to implement the recommendation that you received today thank you so um our last two U conversations of the committee really focused on starting end times just as as Brad spoke about so we spent some time on U really talking about starting end times because really redrawing boundary lines is
048challenging talking about starting end times is even more challenging because it's so personal my work schedule is is this my kids needed child care when they weree Elementary age at this time yours might be totally different and so it's very personal very individualized what we each need for our family so we spent some time because one of the comments that I occasionally hear is 7:20 is too early to start school 7:30 is too early to start school and then I hear the opposite 9:20 is too late to start school everybody wants the middle tier everybody wants The Sweet Spot school should be 8:15 to 3 so we spent a lot of time as a committee studying that studying why we need three tiers of Transportation because the number one priority from our committee was Transportation
049making sure that kids get to and from school that need a bus neighbor uh districts around us are frequently cancelling bus routes we do not frequently cancel bus ROP please everyone knock on a table while you're right here because Friday is all Friday is before for a break we're always crossing our fingers um but we are in so much better shape than a lot of communities around the state and around the country because of the hard work of our transportation department so we spent some time in the first meeting studying this slide so this is our current time uh among our three tiers of Transportation the intermediates start at 7:25 then we have another tier that starts at 8:25 and our third tier that starts at 9:15 920 so what I occasionally hear from uh
050folks is well why can't you just move the start time back 30 minutes move that 725 start time back 30 minutes it seems so simple except you can't move anything in the first tier without moving everything later so this scenario shows well what if we move that first tier back to 755 that seems so simple then this tier moves back has to move back to 855 start time okay maybe that's okay but then that means that third tier doesn't start school until 9:50 school doesn't end until 4:40 which means lots of kids are not getting home until well after 5 o' so it's not as simple as just saying move 30 minutes you can say the same thing if we shift early so okay 9:20 that's too late to start school Scott okay noted if
051we move at 30 minutes earlier and they start at 850 well that means tier two has to move up and start at 7:55 and that whatever schools get assigned to the early the Early tier would have to start at 6:55 and dismiss at 1:45 way too too early so that's where I think some of the comments that you've heard tonight about it's much more complicated than you think is where we tried to convey some of this type of information that 30 minutes seems so simple but 30 minutes in the world of transportation is a huge amount of time um and and navigating those three tiers of school start times was really important to make sure that we have enough bus drivers and enough buses to get our kids to school so we started off and
052asked our committee what were their uh priorities when it came to starting end times as Carrie said we had a list that we thought as a district were important uh but we wanted to hear from the committee the number one was the same from a district and from the committee the bus drivers transp what do what can we do to make sure that that we're efficient in getting kids to school you can see brain research was top Mr Reed spoke about that was towards the top extracurriculars uh and then we asked people to rank Early Elementary start late Elementary start early High School start late High School start early middle school start late Middle School start I shared with the committee What You Won't See on here is Middle start you know we have a
053tier two why didn't we put middle as something that they had to evaluate those of you that are on the committee remember why everybody would have picked it so we said you can't pick middle that's too easy that's the easy out to go oh I think this this level should start at the middle time so we we took that out of the the survey and said you've got to you've got to make the tough decision who should start early and who should start late so you can see the committee um ranked Early Elementary start um as something that that was more supported and you can see where they ranked uh High School start high school was kind of split and then Early Middle School start uh was at the the bottom of that priority uh
054list from the committee so what you have as another handout um is the start and end time scenarios this will also be on our website as a PDF so uh if you're watching online you can download it and take a look at it you will see that there are two there is scenario a and scenario B we went over all of those uh with our committee one of the questions you'll see on the FAQ is well did you think about this third scenario and we did and and that's there one person asked if we would do a scenario where the high school started earlier so we put that out there but the committee really uh landed on a or b as the the the two that uh had the most possibility when we asked the
055committee's feedback on that overwhelmingly the support was for scenario a um and so you can see on that sheet that you have um what schools would go at which which times and we also included on there the number of buses that are used in each of those models because as we've talked about Transportation was so important and our challenge was to try to get those three tiers as evenly balanced as we could so you'll see in scenario a Elementary start earlier at that 730 7:35 start time uh with 57 gened buses then you can see that second tier is high school a couple of elementaries preschool that has 66 gened buses and then the middle schools are on the third tier at 63 buses so it doesn't balance out perfectly between the three tiers but
056it's really close and that's what Transportation um was was striving for then if you turn the page you can see scenario B while scenario B didn't have the support of our committee we wanted to go ahead and share it uh with our community just so the community could see how we considered all options and and we can get feedback on it but you can see in this option the middle schools and the elementary flip so in scenario B the middle schools start in that early tier and then more of the elementaries are shifted to the later tier the other thing that you'll see in all of these packets and um this will this will be online as well we included the strengths and challenges from the committee so we've mentioned that we broke into small
057groups in every one of those small groups we we asked for their input on strengths and challenges so again there might be something that a Community member would would think of that we didn't cover but my guess is 95% of what you might be thinking is a strength or a challenge of both the boundary models and the start and end times is on this sheet so we wanted our community to see kind of the summary of the work of the committee whether it came to boundaries or whether it came to start in end time so that's all available as well then in our final meeting uh which was last Wednesday we reviewed uh some feedback from the committee uh we shared the projections from our demographer uh as as what he looked at five years
058out 10 years out in our boundary models and then as I uh said we shared a new model 4B um that as you saw earlier had good support from our committee so we had a couple of folks uh Mr Cole claser and Mr Reid that were uh willing to come and and said that they would they would speak tonight but at our last meeting we also asked for um members from the committee to share a little bit about um their experience I know Mr Reed is in this video as well so you get to hear so see you are getting more time it's just part of it's on the video um but several several of uh the folks that couldn't be here tonight did share a little bit about their perspectives so we'll show this
059right now as well my biggest takeaway is just learning more about um the requirement that needed to L kep for balancing demographics and boundaries for school districts I really love the hard process my name is Sarah Snider I'm a parent of three children in three of schools um my takeway was we were given a lot of information a lot of data a lot of Statistics that helped me mentally decide that we have to do what's best for the school um not just what's best for us um and it's it's the way this played out is it was a great even though we're going through change everyone's going through change so we're in the same boat my name is Brad Reed uh I'm a parent of a current sixth grader and a ninth grader so my
060kids have gone through that uh that really early start time at those older ages uh and that's what brought me here also I'm a realtor and I have so many people saying Hey I want Avon School District or I'm not moving so thank you to all of the the people that have made it what it is and I'm here to help keep it what it is one of my big takeaways was the amount of science that has gone into this like the reports on the sleep times how that affects the kids uh as well as the uh scientific instruments I don't even want to think about what's gone in to do the demographics like the economic status the multilingual and the the the racial Equity so I feel really good about the recommendations that we've
061got because of the science that have gone into it and the professionalism of Dr Windham and Dr Sullivan of running the session and my name is Jed Cardwell I have a sixth grader and um I'm a parent so um my biggest takeway for this is how much the school district actually cares about this whole process they did not just come into this and think they'll choose a few people to be on the committee or that they would just draw a couple lines or would throw some dors on the board you can tell with everything that was given each and every me it was well researched it was well thought out they were completely open to hearing from each member on the committee about what are their concerns what are their what's the weaknesses and then
062each week you could tell with the new information that was presented that they list and they heard us and they um they took that back and made adjustments so I feel like I know that not everyone's going to be happy I know there's a lot of changes coming but I feel like if if if anyone missed out on the meetings they missed out on seeing this whole thought process it was not just a decision that came down for from on high my name is Kristen Carver and I am a parent of a student in the Avon Community School System and my takeaways from this process is I wanted to be involved to ensure that diverse perspectives and were repres was in it in the process and I feel like this provided the greatest opportunity for
063that to happen it was a safe space for that to happen and I do feel like um diverse perspectives were and we involved in the process to help uh influence this decision my name is anaisa um I'm a parent I have a first grader and I joined this mainly because I wanted to know kind of what was going on um I'm new to all this I'm CU I only have one kid but it it was really eye open in experience no matter what we're moving so at first I was kind of upset about it but actually like knowing we're going to move no matter what allowed me to kind of look at it more objectively um and I did realize that the school districts were not just like you live here this school is close
064to you this is where you're going to go to school how how much goes into that the demographics all those kinds of things so that was really eye opening for me and really appre bur about that I'm uh David Bailey um I'm a parent to a middle schooler um and the intermediate and Sherry Bailey also parent to the intermediate and middle schooler and recent high school graduate this biggest takeaway I think for me has been the extra effort that everyone has to put in to create the culture that we know we aspire to in Aman right um so the effort and the energies for all people in these meetings has been pure me it it's been good um there's no perfect science but we've definitely done our best so my takea away from this is
065I think I took for granted um the process of the redistricting and all of that stuff um just being aware of all the different variables and factors that you all have to juggle to make our children School experience worthwhile um so I appreciate the community coming together everybody voicing their opinions and stuff as well as the administration and the work that they do um as parents you think it's as simple as all my kid needs to go to get on the bus and go to school but it's so many different factors um and then you know we love Avon um it was great to see the uh balance of diversity across all of our schools so that that was a great takeaway for me yeah I know it's never fun to have a video camera
066so I appreciate those folks that that did that and shared a little bit about um their experience and so our next steps from here um is this evening um we will be sending out a parent Square message to parents and staff with a survey um that survey will be open through for for a week into next week um and so I'll I'll show you a link to that survey here in just a second but you're going to be getting it uh via parent Square it really just asks for gives you the different models gives you the different start and in time scenarios ask you to uh rate uh your support of those and then ask you a chance to narratively say any strengths or challenges that you see in those uh different options so that
067will go to everyone whether they've been on the committee or not uh so that that will be widely distributed so that we can compile that uh over the next couple of weeks then October 28th uh will share some of the feedback that we've received with the school board um and then uh ultimately a decision will be made on November 11th so following uh that decision then we'll communicate again where information can be found on our website so this is a QR code to access that form you really don't have to do that uh this evening uh because you're going to be getting a parent Square message with that link there but we really do uh appreciate feedback and I know this was a huge ask for those those of you that participated in the committee
068and not everybody can do that but so this is a this this survey is a way that we're able to get feedback from folks that couldn't participate and give up six or seven Wednesday evenings uh over the course of the last couple of months to to be a part of this process so thank you for coming out as I said we'll stick around we've got uh Transportation Representatives here who are the smartest people on this topic in the room Teresa Clark let's give Teresa Clark a round of applause she hates the attention but uh we would not have gotten through the last seven weeks without her support so we'll stick around if you have any questions uh don't hesitate to to ask and then like I said lots of information on our website so thanks
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