001We have a certificate. tonight award from here from Alaska. A little bit about what the donation. So yeah, very nice. pretty well. There are four people. So, I'll turn I just want to let you know how exceptionally grateful we are for the education that our three children received at the anala school district. Um when I bought this when we bought this bond about uh 25 years ago, I said I hope this can be at Eagle Bluff someday because Eagle Blo our children moved in when it was new. We chose to live in an Alaska because of the school district and um it formed the foundation for academic excellence for all three of our children. Um they've all gone on to achieve doctorates JD, DDS and PhD and um they are extraordinarily grateful for their entire
002education here. The high school was amazing as well. So um this is just an expression of our gratitude and know that um this has been a great learning experience for them. They were added readers and the twins were co-varians which was amazing when they had their speech that they did collectively but any rate thank you thank you thank you and we believe in quality education which provides I'll make a motion. Hi, it's Joy to be able to share and our donations. and Ali was just here to share a little bit with you about his book and this is to formally acknowledge and thank him for that. So that's the first one on the list. And then we have $695 from Ultra Federal Credit Union Alaska High School program. We have $1,000 from Lor Alaska for
003school supplies at Urban Elementary. We have coupons and incentives from an Alaska Dairy Queen for students at Birch Elementary. We have $200 from co-op for classroom supplies for teacher Jamie Lundro. And last but not least, we have school supplies from Mike and Barb students. There's nothing like I thought a great example of that great I also handed out a handse and I think a celebration like if you look at for example that they actively tell people requires about 15 hours instruction instruction 45. So I think it's truly a celebration of what they learned. We do the we do the testing at the high school there's 30 to jump through for several of these but once they're in place Great start to the school year in middle school as well. Last time was over two weeks.
004Athletic seasons. Focus up as well. I was gonna share them into the building and then I have our friends. So very very excited mostly positive and very exciting remarks from parents coming in. We're excited students and we're just we're happy to show a visual priority. Here's your There's a lot of exterior work contining. building that this will be by Friday night The vinyl cover bathrooms are nearing completion having the female bathroom by Wednesday and more and then kind of exciting. They were looking at when they could install the boilers because it involves shutting down the fork when that could happen last Thursday. That should be all back up and running by tomorrow. Welcome back to the Alaska Middle School for another construction community update. We're excited to show you guys the progress that we have
005going on inside. Uh today's actually the first day of school, so students are are back in classes now. And uh continue to make a a ton of progress here on site. Um, all the trades have been working hard uh finishing up the last phase of the project from inside the building uh in the Boys and Girls Club area and the remaining tech and art areas and then also on the exterior. Uh, as you'll see, we got a lot of exterior site improvements going as well. So, we're extremely excited to uh show you kind of the the final uh phase of the project. So, let's hop on in and see what we got going on. All right, we're out at the main entrance of the building. of the biggest uh steps forward since our last update
006was landscaping. So, Winona Nursery's been uh working non-stop getting the irrigation done and the landscaping put in. As you can see, it looks great. Uh and a major improvement from from our last update. To give you some more perspective on the site improvements that we've had going, we're here at the bus drop off area. The last update we had just paved. Now we got all the landscaping in and completed for the start of school. Again, we're over on the west side of the building and what you can see here in the foreground is the dust collector for the techad room getting set. Lger sheet metal is in the process of setting that. And then you can also see that Matthew has been in here getting the uh paving completed in this this back area. All
007right, moving in the building. We're in segment E now moving into kind of the back of house area, staff work room and staff break room areas and then also custodial closet and then just some rest rooms. It's an area that's uh soon to be turned over. Just doing some final finishes. All right, we're in the art room now. As you can see, we're working on finishes. The flooring has went in in the past couple of weeks. Got ceilings in. Just working on buttoning up all the the remaining work is going to be going in. Uh so just working towards getting this area completed. Right next to the art room is also the tech area. As you can see, it's got the same flooring as the art room. Also working on finishes in here, getting equipment
008moved in, uh getting ready to turn over to the district. Moving on in segment C, we're now in the Boys and Girls Club activity area. Specifically, we're standing in the art room. Moving on, you can see we got going on as we move through. We're moving into what will eventually be Boys and Girls Club. Right now, we're in the teen center for the Boys and Girls Club. In the foreground will be the future cubby areas and then also an office and pantry and serving. One of the big milestones since our last update has been completion of the wood gym flooring in the Boys and Girls Club gym. As you can see, it turned out fantastic. Looks beautiful. And we even got some equipment set up already in here. So, uh it's come a long way
009since our since our last update. We were just starting to put the wood floor down and do the initial sanding. All right, that'll conclude our update for this month here at the Alaska Middle School. We appreciate everybody tuning in and seeing the progress, seeing everything that we have going on on site. As you can see, there's a lot going on and we're looking forward to finishing up this project here in the near future. Uh hats off to all the crews who are working day in and day out to make this project a success and hats off to Chris Anderson as well uh for the tremendous job that he's done here. students are back in school and uh one of our primary focuses is safety and Chris has done a spectacular job of getting everybody back
010in the building uh while we're still under construction on the on the back side. So hats off to him for that. We appreciate the partnership with the school district as always and Vantage Architects and uh we look forward to bringing you a couple more updates here as we finish out the Alaska Middle School. Thanks and stay tuned to that. I would just add a couple We are still just a couple of weeks away. But I thought I would think a little bit different this update and share a little bit of the impact thinking right now. But it was three weeks ago. So perspective. Every grade level has at least two bands. So for both choir now with their new able to have the entire usually they were only able to do that practice a couple
011of times before there's going to be sequence that we're roll out with And it's interesting because to me it didn't seem like it was a big deal, but they were so excited about it like oh the other French horns are only in one of the bands to be set up. our own excited about doing so that Now that we are covering all sorts of stuff, one final note just a room there's eight shelves kind of small 25. So just wanted to approach And now you can see Like that fence was like Thank you. But we ensured building this summer where they analyze their data in order to determine their greatest need. And after our reflection on the strategic plan that we presented last spring, we really determined that we wanted our building a lot of
012work investigating and implementing that are really hard. So today you'll see focus on everybody's attention to the first partic see that you are internal gas and all the And then for the second part of one share with you what we have for districtific The ones in purple are the ones that have a look at our divided Achievement. Starting with achievement, we're looking at 20% or fewer of our kindergarten through requiring a person. We feel like that will also be a really great system. Moving through a look at what our growth was. And then a little bit different level at least 55% of our state average last year was 43%. It's a little different. So that would First and foremost for developing our guarant AC standard for everybody. One of the first steps in that standard.
013analyze that and then you talk a lot about one of the things that's one of the things that we're going to be working on instruction. And then for math achievement similar to what we talked about And so again, very similar to the elementary level. I'm going to talk about engagement. If you remember, the goal is to be in the top five groups and our end of the strategic plan. So when we get maintainer, what we're using to measure our growth and then analytes, any students that aren't getting the interventions that we need to make sure they get that we are continic but also for that brings us down to our students and engagement again our goal around this lal about at least 90% or more of our 90% or more of the school So last
014year ended data end of last year was 88% and so our goal was 90% that's really a celebration but there's always room for improvement for growth and then after implement students and maybe aren't we shared all that data So you will see each of our buildings around how they're looking at this but we don't have a but we are not forgetting about it. Any questions? Are you asking why we're putting more focus on the That's why we continue to do a deepening of our learning of what the standards are asking for our kids to be able to do and then also a better understanding of the assessments that we're providing and our teachers look at this exactly what they need. I think that's what helps us I was gonna just add to that too that
015sometimes we focus on that intervention system and we forget a little bit more about the universal instruction and our heavy heavy lift. this year is in that ELA universal instruction and implementing our new our new curriculum and and developing it and developing sequence and all of the things that was mentioned in the step that's our procedures and all of the things will it all be done in one year but it's making teachers that come in. >> Oh, I was going to mention and then the attendance partnershum Sometimes those barriers even though we meet with families and we try to problem solve that aren't good answers but that doesn't mean better ways to reach that goal. Obviously, we want% 100%. We know that's not possible, but we'll continue. And I think over the last few years,
016just given the changes in our policy and in our practices around making that relationship so that they feel like, okay, we're in this together. really different, Right. Pretty Thank you. shared. And now speech. some of the things that we're doing at our elementary problem where we review our students who are maybe struggling with identify keep our center and really help them. And a lot of that collaboration as often as possible. Um just wanted to mention too and highlight of being at school and I like that. It's going to be a bit I know I've shared it before and I'm like I just absolutely love that you guys have so much engagement and taking input from the people that we're teaching like the children that we're teaching because sometimes we have like one perception of how
017things are but let you hear from the students you don't really know so you know I had wrote down too that having students part of the discussion grade level representative even with the curriculum you know like how is it going to get better outcomes if we know is it actually not just the numbers we feel like I appate So some highlights of the middle school Obviously, we A new math course this year best. growing with all of our resources. And then finally the kind of joint category of student engagement. So the success of our cell policy last year and it may seem a little silly, but just having super clear expectations as well as having a little bit of a catchy phrase really just as part of our culture. So much so that sixth graders
018last year to sell Nobel Day where they wanted their they petition to have their cell phones all day and just turn the bells off. I decline said petition but the phrase that stuck with them right and so this year in addition to the self policy the other major things from like a behavior standpoint that we're focusing on are really focus so on time every time we're focusing on start and as an example for that two week period last two weeks, but we were tracking nonetheless and I met about 20 students that had three or more targets first week as well. And then the last thing is keep it clean. That is the highlight question. identif And then last Just a quick question. I just those weren't that it's a call, it's an email, it's a
019voicemail, it's a text message and I just want to make that really clear. >> Correct. Correct. What typically parents will get had a few times when you get that real time notification. I know not everybody's in that situation, but anyways. Um, so there there's a lot of notifications. What is new is us having a emphasis on it. students develop our focus on it as well as think I'm going to roller Just want to remind everyone seems like everything new ways of think there's a flaw with that. The flaw reliability. We're going to continue feel district. A lot of things related to how much traffic ize to make sure that we do drive our audience back to the website, right? So that infrastructure and get everything back to that website. So our goals really users can
020track One of the things that we have all kinds of different stakeholders All of our very high level audiences and you're going to see lots of things able to bring Right. So, it's just trying to Everything. We want to make sure All right, last But you know what shy It's hard to predict what we start. And I think that we asked the question what is a What are the models? haven't already restrict. predict what I what I want to share with the board. We're gonna pull out of that we can start focusing on and maybe If we can get real good because I think we have the opportunity potentially to I guess modify or revise this even prior to the year because as you two and three and four of the things that we've accomplished
021a lot and we find that most of our work I potentially consider if it's appropriate for ready to move forward. even that's my thought I want to share with you informed on our progress myself and how I known so I appreciate that you're talking about it now because like you said when this was established you hit the ground running it never stops so I think ahead I would say is indic every effort. Hi.