001e e good evening like to call to order the Board of Education regular meeting for Monday March 24th 2025 Christen would you take a roll call please Tracy here Eric is absent Mark here Sean right here Ryan an is absent and Aaron here verify that we have Quorum present please rise and join me in the pledge ofion States Sean would you read the school board mission statement working together to ensure high levels of learning for all Kristen was public notice given public notice was given to the requesting news media the agenda was posted District buildings and on the district website there any changes or revisions to the agenda yes please um request that you move number 14 Action research project after number n trip report and then to also delete number 11 budget projections can
002not a request to move item number 14 to follow item nine and also to remove item 11 from the agenda I'll make that second motion by Brian second by Mark to approve the agenda with the adjustment of item 14 to follow item nine and the removal of item 11 all those in favor oppos we have no request for public input on the publish agenda and that will move us into our first informational uh discussion item which is a trip recap we welcome Mr Robert co uh so we took 100 students to Chicago out of the band program there's 109 in the program so we took all at nine and uh 24 adults so we had great chaperon we took a couple of pain parents along as well and then our staff from Ana High School
003and a coup of the elementary schools uh to have a staff member on each bus uh the trip was very successful uh the week before we we had snow but uh thankfully it kind of dumped on us here and and not in Chicago so we had really great weather the entire time we were there so I put together a little bit of a presentation on what we did so this is our early morning uh students had to be there at 5:15 a.m. and we were out by uh 645 we had some engine troubles so 645 uh 615 is always my goal and then we went to Madison and we had a clinic at the University this is their new concert hall at the University and then our clinician is the University of Wisconsin Summer Music
004Camp coordinator who's also the director of Edgewood College so she did the clinic in the morning the students got to play in this space and then we did a performance at the capital which it just happened that there was I believe it was the Wisconsin Supreme Court that was in session uh so we had to wait a little bit but then performed uh for some of them as they were City that evening we went to Medieval Times so you can see when we introduced the trip to them we said well we're looking into medieval times for Wednesday night and the students all cheered so I looked at Mr muner and I said I guess we have to go there now um but I would say it was one of the highlights for the students uh
005trip and a great way to kick off kind of the events on our way to Chicago you can see our group photo there our jazz bands both played at the Field museum in the big Atrium area which is kind of neat people kind of come and go but you can hear music pretty much into the uh different exhibits um so it's kind of a nice place to play we did not break their sound volume of 88 Deb so that was good to hear students then went to the aquarium the Shed Aquarium where they got to see the show and then kind of spend some time walking around there a neat thing about our program our drum line instructor is one of the biology professors at University of Lacrosse and so he had about 20 students
006following him around as he was talking about uh fishing Wildlife so he gave kind of a little mini lecture to them for two hours uh he said most of them made it to the end uh and then kind of a group F picture in front of the capital another thing that we did this year uh we were supposed to go see the Blue Man Group but we found out in January that they were moving to Florida so it's like oh GE what do I do now um but luckily the Off Broadway was Beetle Juice which is a really fun and entertaining Musical and on top of that um we had a connection through Mr McDonald uh with a friend who played in the pit on trombone so he did a zoom with us the Thursday
007before we left and students could ask kind of what it's like to be a musician and be in a pit and how do you get to that point and what is it like making a living off of playing your instrument uh and then when we went to see Beetlejuice we afterwards kind of got a connection to do a Q&A with a few of the vocal uh vocalists that were on Broadway and so they got to ask some more questions so really got kind of a well-rounded experience of of what the musical profession can be like um yeah so we can go on to the next slide um something Chicago is very well known for is their mob scene and one thing that we've done this is the third time I've done this tour for the
008an Alaska Band program is we do the Untouchable tour where they bring actors onto the bus and they kind of drive around Chicago and show all the different spots things happened in Chicago and talk about the history of that and they do it in character for what their what their character is and then um students can ask questions there just kind of a neat other side of Chicago that maybe families don't get to see very often because it's it's a different kind of tour so if you're ever in Chicago check them out on touchable tour we spent the afternoon then at Navy Pier um so students had lunch there one of the things that we really tried this year was to provide an all inclusive trip there were no extra expenses all meals were paid
009for all three of them uh travel Hotel all the activities the only thing that they needed money for is if they wanted to buy something to bring home um so they had lunch on Navy Pier and then we walked to the wendela architect tour and that's the next slide uh so we couldn't do it on Saturday because it's it's very uh lucrative for them to be able to do their boat tours when they died the river green um but Friday before that was really really nice and the weather was awesome you couldn't complain at at what was at 70 degrees I think as we're going on the river one thing that I really like about wendela is you get to see a side of Chicago that most people don't get to see on the river
010and their uh tour guyses are always really knowledgeable and really excited to share the history of Chicago with the people that are on the boat so I don't think he took a breath and I like to talk but I think he could beat me out for talking the most um that evening we went to Chicago 360 which I think is one of the best views in Chicago uh will to is almost to tall so you're in the clouds but the 360 at uh dusk so you can see the sunset is really neat and then they do this tilt where they tilt you over the side of the building uh which I think the students really enjoyed that one they were talking quite a bit about it St Patrick's Day Parade um you can probably find
011us on YouTube if you want there is video here and I'm sure um we can share it you've all have access to this and you can watch the video um but it's kind of a neat experience for the students because they stop the grade the band terms and face of the cameras the cameras I warn the students will be in your face um so try not to eye the camera down I know one of our students was uh doing a scared down of their parents as the camera came by to them to see if they would notice it um just kind of a neat neat experience the crowd it's hard to tell but from the street The Crowd Goes at least a block deep so we're used to October Fest where you're talking maybe 10
01215 people deep this one's probably a 100 people deep on the one side of the street uh so it's just a really neat crowd they love having bands there so it's a really great experience for our students short uh for the performer it took us 30 minutes from start to finish when when we did start but the parade itself is about two and a half hours long with all the different units so it's just kind of neat to see when people ask me a PR 30 minutes and they're always surprised well that's that's our time not not you uh and then we got to see the Chicago Symphony I was really excited about this I am from Madison so I've lived three hours away from Chicago my entire life and I've never seen the Chicago
013Symphony Orchestra we were supposed to see them back in 2018 and they went on strike uh the week before we went down there and then when the conductor went on strike we we knew it wasn't going to happen um but you can see uh we tried to include every single Musical musical opportunity that there is out there with Orchestra we have orchestra students uh we had vocalists so we did some vocal things the neat thing about this concert was they did um a piece that involved in an entire chorus so it was really neat to see how the chorus interacts with the orchestra uh and some of the students were asking some really great questions my favorite was I know there's a delay but why was the conductor so far ahead of the beat and
014I said well that's a v conducting where the conductor conducts ahead of what the performer is playing um they actually play on the offbeat of the conductor so just kind of some neat learning opportunities and how um the students were paying attention was a date for after being up until 11 o'clock every single night they marched in the morning and then were moving all the time and then going to a concert at the symphony Halls so just some neat neat opportunities for them um and then here's the picture of us at the parade on the parade day it's one of my favorite pictures uh with the whole group with the skyline in the background not as sunny as back in 2018 but certainly was great weather for us to March and even though it was
01560 degrees it still feels like 90 inside of those uniforms in half so I'm sure they were still sweating and then uh we finish up our day with the Science and Industry Museum so they get that experience uh we do the ubot tour I feel like every time I do that it's a there's something new that they talk about in that or they find out in the history of um capturing the ubo and then there's a picture of the river being dyed green and then of course some of our chaperon uh the directors that went there on the left with the river in the background um our Band program would not be as successful as it is and I don't think any of the music programs at the high school without our chaperon and our
016other staff that are there to support us makes a huge difference for the students um and obviously parents knowing that their kids are going to be safe when they're for some of them the first time they've been away from their house uh in a trip like this so very thankful for all of those people that came along with us I think that's it any questions I was able to to join the band on on the trip and I think we we sit here uh and and we receive these these trip requests reports you you request to go on trip and then and then hear the results but to be part of one and for how well organized all of that was you know thank you for for all that I I took me few days
017to recover um from the trip but it was it was a great experience I think the students really well yeah it's fun when it all kind of fits together and trying to keep them busy it was impressive uh it's a very coste effective trip for us I mean it is close but also because a lot of times Mr Moses the choir director cohort of mine and me we do a lot of the planning ourselves so we save a significant amount of cost by having us plan versus a t company which is a significant savings for our families so we can do more on our trips when you were at the capital that was same yes I that was great walk to theal the trailer and the truck we may have double parked a couple of
018vehicles it's okay no one ticketed us so I think we're okay thank you so much absolutely have a great night okay we'll move uh to change in our agenda to item number 14 which is an action item and we're going to hear from two staff members about research project projects that they're involved in I think first we have um my name is Kaye Olen I'm a third grade teacher over at Eagle BL this is my second year teaching and I this all entered the professional studies and education Masters program over at WL um through this program we are completing action research projects and so I'm proposing my idea on studying the effect of daily mindfulness practices in the classroom and what they can play a role like to affect students emotional regulation skills um many
019of us know there's an increasing focus on the importance of soci learning um improves academic outcomes students wellbeing it promotes positive behaviors and relationships and as you know student engagement growth and achievement is a current pillar of our Focus for the district um we're working to integrate to ensure achievement achievement for all and so I hope to enhance this by adding daily mindfulness practices um in my classroom while looking at the impact that it has on my students emal skills mindfulness is just being present in the moment awareness to and attention to thoughts feelings and surroundings um daily practices that would that would take place in my classroom with my students could be journaling mindful breathing sensory exercises and practicing gratitude this would take place like during snack time or brain break so it's not
020taking away from any current um content time studies there's many benefits to mindfulness practices but I'm focusing on the possible effects it could have on student emotional regulation um emotional regulation improves students ability to manage their emotions improve their focus and ultimately enhance their learning while supporting a positive learning environment for others as well um I will use a variety of data collection tools Student Self assessments as well as teacher rating skills to see current emotional regulation strengths and weaknesses they may have before and after the implementation they'll also complete some attitude scales to see which kind of practices they may prefer or use in their own emotional regulation and they will also be reflecting pre and post using an open ended kind of question Forum to see what emotional regulation they have and strategies
021they may use through my action research I hope to increase students emotional regulation abilities and skills by implementing da mindfulness practices and identified how this may help other teachers support you're exed what learn I just app the connection of our focus and I'm looking forward to see not only the gains that they make in those skills but to see if that really does play out in our academic so second motion by Tracy second by Sha to approve the action research project Kay as detailed by Kay all favor good luck with your research and now we have Abby boss school teacher at at Northern Hills hi um I'm Abby boss so like you had already said I'm currently a second year teacher at Northern Hills last year I taught fourth grade and this year I'm teaching
022first grade there um and just like Kaye I'm also in a master's program at w lacrosse for professional studies in education um and I'll graduate next December tonight I'll be sh an overview of my action research project um that I would like to implement into my classroom and use as my um research so this my um my project will look at the impact of student engagement through their involvement in the implementation of morning meeting in the classroom um I've chosen to focus my research on this topic because I and of morning meetings and more specifically the engagement aspect of it um because in order to have an effective morning meeting students need to be engaged um morning meetings in the classroom provide students with a sense of belonging community and safety each kid is very
023important to start this in their classroom um and prepare for the learning meth to come as we can see because we have it already implemented in our classroom um schedule each morning as the school year has gone on I have noticed though a decrease in the engagement because of the routine of morning meeting um we always start with our reading and where we do some sort of community building game and then we do um a class morning message um and just with this routine I've seen students kind of start to get disengaged as the year has gone on um so to help bring the engagement back I'm proposing that my students will be the ones to actually plan and implement the morning meeting um so each day my plan is to allow students to have
024a day that's to theirselves to need their own morning meeting um we'll start by reviewing the class expectations and going over the class what they need to be doing and then the leader expectations as well and what that will look like for them um the students will be in charge of picking up the game the greeting and then the share and then they'll also be in charge of encouraging students to like the reminders of the expectations and what's expected throughout and then making decisions of who will go first um who starts the sh and explaining the rules to the games um each of these rules and each of the games and the greetings and shares will already have been some that we've done so they're familiar with them but now it's just including the aspect
025of leadership and they're doing this on their own um in order to understand the impact of my research I'll be giving students a pre- survey and then a posts survey with a variety of questions about morning meeting and then how the implementation of them actually meeing it felt to them um I'll also be observing my engagement throughout morning meeting so I'll be collecting data each day on how students are responding to the student L morning meeting versus what it looked like when I was the one implementing it um and then one last thing that I didn't have in my proposal after talking with my facilitator at WWL I also Incorporated a third data point to minimize bias so I'll be doing um prior to implementing the student L morning meetings I will group discussions with
026the students just to ask just some open-ended questions about how they feel on morning meeting and then I'll also be coming back to those questions after they have L morning meeting to see now how they feel and what difference it has had on them um the data that's collected from these surveys and then the discussions will only be used from students that have permission um to be used in this research and then names will not be used in my research paper and then by doing this I hope to have more student engagement in my morning meetings um and have them feel a sense of leadership and pride in the thank you anyone have any questions again I don't have any questions but I'm also excited about your project soring out over here I'm just really
027excited because you know you're I'll just show that I had a chance to talk with Abby about this and help her kind of develop her question and a lot of this idea came from what I know we've shared with you this year on our and how our students are developing their leadership of daily practices in there we've seen great results from that hoping to apply that to a different part of the day and see how that's working out for them there as well so really excited and I would also just share that Kay and are both students that did their PDS with us and student with us and that we were able to r with the district after the impct on through involvement in imp Trac by Sean to approve the action research project that's
028outlined by Abby Bost and detailed in enclosure 14 any questions all those in favor I think it's really awesome like number one that you know to see that continuing pattern of continuing education you know at The Graduate level and then look looking forward to hearing results you know from your from your programs and now we'll come back to item number 10 student representative administrative reports um I'll start off um kind of representing uh Leah and Jason but I believe Leah is is doing her final preparations for Dancing with the O club Stars so if you're looking for something to do tomorrow um it's it's quite the event if you haven't taken part in it just bringing lots of different group and people and and work together and I can assure you over the last month
029and probably two months they've been getting things ready to go to hopefully put on a good show for everyone tomorrow night um on the activity side of things things that are continuing to start in terms of thinking of the spring season um a few more Sports started today officially with um some soft and baseball and track field was already going um our Quin team I think host their home competition this Saturday um and even the last weekend cabet kind of wrapped up play wrapped up their season over the weekend as well some great perform things ending and other things are starting um one thing I would like to mention um as part of our conversation that kind of started in our ging Coalition that began in biolog class Miss Simon Miss Simon was I'm looking
030for a way to collect some data just to kind of work with data um to kind of see how to break it down you know what trends people are seeing so on and so forth and part of her of her topic was use of their cell phon and their devices um and again it was it was a willing um thing that students were wanting to take part into over a week time they gather data they kind of broke it down um we kind of shared our results um with our gag Coalition and just to kind of keep the momentum going from some of the things that um we've been seeing with our new cell phone policies and some of the momentum we're seeing with that in terms of trying to balance in that time during
031the school hours appropriate what's not and I don't think at the end of it we saw anything outside the norm necessarily of students on their devices um and again it wasn't it wasn't time that like like just listening to music but really engaged with with their devices you know averaging four to five hours a day um in terms of what you see with young people that's pretty common so um as a guy in Coalition we thought how can we capture that and share it um and which we've done before as well we preparing a message I don't know if it one else today or will be doing um a couple of parents that were're probably familiar with um Tisha Mara and Ry melli um two professors that are going to put on a a informational
032piece that that captures theic screen time um smartphone use and how it's related to the mental physical sociel of young people on April 7th at I believe uh from 6:30 to 7:30 so look for some information coming out that will be shared with fames the next few days just to kind of continue that momentum again of trying to balance in that hopefully the goal is hopefully parents are able to and students able to take a couple of things away from that that they can Implement help further you know this healthy balance that we some great things that came out of biology you know and and then to our gu Coalition and then ining we really exciting to be able to see a couple of local experts but also folks with who are parents of students
033in the district as well and have them lean that yeah veryy occasions um so we'll start with the most recent and then go to the thing that happened a little about two weeks ago so Ben and I just came today from our UHS art show which is at our the public library just down the road here from 5 till 7 today so we're able to go and see all the art at the public library and then come here so that's the most recent event today um for about three weeks now we've doing a intervention for Behavior called reading and studies where we have about 10 kids walking up to Northern Hills to do some servant leadership and also um practice what they're learning about s control in their intervention some students are going out and
034spending all their time oness some are helping with lunchroom supervision and a few others are going into the classrooms I through to where one of our students was in a second grade classroom and they just gone through Minon and she was walking around and giving of students different of text believe and I had watched for just going around and speaking with each of the students some of their answers and I thought that that was a really cool thing to see and in talking with her on the way back she said I want to be a teacher but not for middle school or gr but for younger students so it's just fun to see students shine and in in an environment like that we do have to redirect some them sometimes and remind them um that
035we're there to serve the elementary school students but it's something we're really excited about and we to take to sixth grade and eth grade at the start of next year understanding that sixth graders had just left the elementary school we work with much younger students um basically what would be their peers and then finally um during conferences I shared that we had some donation for meals um and just wanted to revisit that and share that we had um seven families that would not signed up for conferences sign up conferences withal vouch being provided for them and their family um our staff came through and it was that our sta was support ofes conferences and we hope to grow it a little bit more next fall um and that's when we have a lot like we
036have increased participation the fall typically and we hope to be able to grow that program in the fall and um develop a system to continue to do this because seven families can sign up foren as a result of meals we hope that we can have inre thewes just a reflection you know putting older students in touch with younger students to be developed leadership develop Community it's really impressive I see that both from the high school and from the middle school and obviously you know a lot of coll so we are starting our session of as web screen so this screener that helps us determine and the window has been open and so we are diving into forward testing as well last week we had an early dismissal which is unique experience but really I think
037that work really well all from all of our perspectives um communication was great fible um and I just have a couple students for little extra time but um but overall we've had well so congrats to everyone that's not a small Fe to do um March 21st we recognized as World down syndome day and uh to to show awareness um students and staff War Miss match socks and so this idea um was created because chromosomes are shaped like socks and people were down have an extra chromosome so people all the RO wear colorful attractive mismatched wild socks on b day to get noticed on ability also Crea districts and of ta and we have lots of transition activities for fifth graders already beginning music instrument demonstrations and tryouts and testing are coming up in in the
038next week or two our fers are planning and preparing for their e environmental Learning Center we finished a a common fundrais schools fundraiser trip down M March music Madness is happening our music teachers have been sharing a link for a couple of pieces each day and the classes get to vote which they like better um there s yeah yes and uh this year there's nice focus and um at perch they're doing mascot March B this so students are earning tickets for expected behaviors which mascot forward in bracket playing mascot games at an all school assembly next week and eag bl last week our third graders did a new experience called was experence put on by and this took place ATC Western Technical College and so the students got to be involved in um Greenhouse operations
039Hydroponics and plant propagation a good good spring time activity for students to learn um and then we also have a celebration coming up assembly this Friday to celebrate our fundraising efforts and uh looking forward to playing St as we also got to have the Irish dancers from Amanda's Academy of Dance come on Monday which was exciting so our whole school got to see that and it was really a connection to our first and second graders studied some Irish music and dance for their concert in January so they were really excited to come have them uh show them what it looks like from professional Irish dancers so it was exciting for them to make that connection and then I'll just Echo what Janna said it's been really delightful having the middle schoolers coming over to help
040support our students one of our third graders was really sad when his buddy left today at lunch and wanted to know where he went so he got the buddy with me afterwards which wasn't as exciting for him um but it was it's really been nice to see for me to see the growth of some of the students from where they were as elementary students to they leaders and even one of them today that asked to come and connect with a student that when he was at Northern Hills he used to help support in prek who's a first grader now and he wanted to check up and see how he's doing so just it's been really beneficial for mutually beneficial for both so I'm excited to see that girl from where it is right now issues
041the end of the day breakast all kinds of things from thep legisla [Music] people representes very interesting resp there was inter this is probably dividing the issu atem KN how much govern asking a lot of money that was Goods also said9 kind of l govern of these that would be good into the bud there was a fair btis really nice to see one thing we talked about year District last five years and it's essentially Toge one of those questions to so it was interesting to hear some of that the Govern education is relatively expensive also creating more basically talk [Music] through froms there is a 75 day waiting period where retirees um cannot look for a district so they were looking at weaving that or um reducing it as well as the option for currently
042um rehard Anu STS to still maintain a part-time status um and they are looking to either reduce that or change that so that rehired and can come back and work fulltime in high high hard to fill positions good our district our distri that we are share stories Coles influence thank you both attending Middle School and High School building project the attachment you can see there there's been a lot of work obviously on the East end of our building our Tech areas um you know the shapes of the classrooms and the work spaces are certainly taking form you can see I mean there's certainly been a lot of concrete coming into our building and a lot of a lot of walls coming down especially in our PE hallway so a lot of things being set um
043in the Southeast Corridor there um just continuing to the inlays of things that were taken out and kind of put back in some of area um you take a look at our our locker room space down our PE hallway it's amazing how I can go down there any part of the day and the noise that's coming out of there so there's certainly a lot of of work happening in those bases um and it's really opening up and looking looking great times I am taking a look inside of there steing spaces um that's facing Wilson Street there um it's it's quite the the space and looking forward to having right a better receiving space than our front doors of Wilson Street with ouring up anding the drop off so that will be a locom addition for
044sure and just another kind of look from the front to the back of the teet area been able to walk through a few times just how it opens up in the space you know outside the classro is really be something um for what students can do and just the overall feel of that space is going to be really really nice lots of work lots of people in the building which means lots of work is getting yeah so the big push right now is to trying to get the eth grade pod and Alli pod that's Southeast plane there and uh since I last updated you we finished getting the um we've got windows and they're putting brick up on the sides so um there's some visible progress going on right now which is really exciting on
045the inside they're almost done with a lot of the electrical and rins and everything and they're starting to frame out um there's there's it's mostly big concrete but there's a few places where there's smaller offices for our resource teachers so they're framing those out and we'll start drywalling that pretty soon not a big section that need drywalling so to push on that section is the biggest thing right now I think I told you about the new bandr um and you can see there's our old band room right there and so that is um being uh prepped for all the remodels the old band will become the new choir room and the next picture of the old choir room will become the new Orchestra room you can see here there's some of the brick on the
046side that's part of the walkway underneath bike rches and stuff so that's where that picture is taken same right there the behind the scenes stuff that gets covered up by walls when it's all so they poured they also poured the the bases you can see for the Lockers in the Ally there the work continues in the old gymnasium where going to be Club section there remodel that this is the part I was talking that is the top of the stair that goes down just a picture of the room no no leaks last weekend with the rain Friday that's been an ongoing issue so that's um that's pretty much our update there look forward to that being okay we'll move on to item 13 board policies and BR you'll start with presentation and so this bu
047you have each and number 164 and I'm just going to go down numers and anybody question right this first one isal meetings SC isru 4 option travel not op also of op expain WEA every right to child we I want to speak up because I disagree with that recommendation um although I respect the rale that was provided far as being concerned that parents would possibly overuse that reason um the policy option ised in the parents reasonable judgment whether conditions are a danger to the Health and Welfare or safety of the stud and I respect that parents have to excuse their child but by and even though you say that that can be a reasonable you know reason for a parent you know as long as it fits in that 10 days um I don't think
048that it makes sense to just because you say you will accept it if we don't check that box you're leaving the door open to not accept that as an option so if you have a child for example who's sick all the time who maybe use up their 10 days a year that there is procedures in place to you know take into consideration if people Miss addal days outside of theed time frame but in my personal opinion I feel like option A should be checked because it is under reasonable judment and it's a danger to the health andare or safy of student parents know best what their kids that's my personal opinion thank you for your consideration min so changes made in prescription prescription and nonprescription drugs this decision a couple times in the last time
049our director of nursing cheed with all of our people around and for us to stock it and keep people trained in it um did not seem to be um the emergency response time that they could get an administer it would cover C because of our location where our schools are if they could respond quicker than we would be able to um as far as making sure people who are trained can get in order to administer that so we had decided I believe we decided that the last this policy but then it came up again in the revision very there districts who are are stocking it to say that may not qualified train personel in each building our nurses are not housed in every building and so they that's I thought you were saying yeah sorry
050that wasn't clear yeah for them to respond it' was just quick forcy District by our police or I don't I don't believe it has not high school it hasn't been used in my time I can remember one time this was pre they carry the N all of the police officers to I will go next I disagree with that and I feel that we need this policy and I'm going to share why we need to start stocking Naran in the schools again so we'll start off by saying like what is Naran the generic is theck zone so Naran is a substance that can be um injected I apologize for the or more commonly in to help block the bodies ofid examp morphine oxycodone methodone hydrocodone Codine Hydromorphone Etc thereby decreasing side effects during an overdose a
051person's breathing can be dangerously slowed or stopped causing brain damage or death is it safe naram will not harm someone if you give it to them and they are not overdosing on an opioid it can be safely given to people of all ages from infant to older adults this includes adolescent or young adults who may unintentionally take opid the concern it does not require a prescription late people can receive it um and we currently have staff in our schols that are able to administer medications this product literally if you get the inhal is pinch the buttet I mean there's not a ton of training required on that because again you don't have to have a prescription for it it doesn't require a medical degree or certification in order to administr um one of the considerations
052a reason was that the nurse felt that um it had a to Ste life um well Naran um the FDA FDA initially extended the sh life of Nar nasal from two years to three years back in August of 2020 and then they further extended it to four years for products manufactured after January 17th 2024 so I would disagree that four years is not really a short shelf life especially with measures that it can provide um how long does it take to work Nar starts working two to three minutes after Administration and if the person isn't awake in three minutes it's advised to give a second dose once it's administered it lasts about 30 to 90 minutes now the biggest issue why is it important to have Naran on hand in house well brain damage begins
053within four minutes of not having enough oxygen they also call that hypoxia the longer your bra the more likely you'll have permanent brain damage travel time for First Responders to get on sight and the time it takes for Naran to kick in can and will easily exceed for minute how prevalent is the opioid overdose um I went to I called 211 to get their opinion there are like um Great Rivers 211 they provide resources to people um for an assorted you know number of like where's the best do to go for this kind of thing and they said that all of our CR County Mayo andon all work together they have Community Foundation for the op crisis they have an alliance website and they of the um statistics um so the 2024 annual report by
054the Lacrosse County overdose fality show that 55 lives were lost in 2023 they state that the number ofes overdose continues to increase in the cross count life loss to overdose were most common in the age range of 24 to 64 but other Ages were also affected 73% of the people who lost their life to an overdose said permanent stable housing four out of five people at a high school education are higher only 18% of emergency calls related to a drug overdose in 2022 had a bystander that administered n um their personal goal decrease number in of Overdose Andre number of people to react quicker um so finally some additional thoughts um while doing research as well there's a US news article from 2023 that highlighted a couple of situations that occurred in Colorado now I
055respectfully will state that this is not Colorado right we're Wisconsin we're the Midwest small homet but things can happen anywhere um in 2022 in Colorado Springs a student fell unconscious after walking out of a bathroom at a high school and color her friends had mentioned drugs the nurse acted fast and gave Naran Steve stated emergency responders were just four minutes away but still four minutes if they are completely not breathing it's four minutes too long 45 miles away in Colorado Springs high school officials did not have Naran on hand when a 15-year-old student overdosed in class in 202 aftering aill in a school bathroom that student died color Colorado Springs subsequently joined quo and dozens of other districts in the state and supplying middle and high schools with the lifing medication often known by one
056of his brand names narad more than 30 states have laws allowing schools or SCH employ administer but concerns about being a bad school have fueled reluctances among some officials stock it we don't need to lose a student by choosing not to stock the life-saving medication n we need to be proactive not reactive just one more thing I forgot um pulled up some of my email communication with Amanda around this um Dr Maher is our medical advisor and she had reached out to him as well when we were trying to discard this and he was his recommendation was that he did not feel it was necessary for the district to take on that responsibility of n the response times were so quick our emergency respon so's decision consider our response you know secondses count when B
057to make sure that that information is available so students can qualify unin guar ad 10 language some language in there to exclusionary discipline for both regular and those with disabilities some more flexibility related to expulsion an alternative avenue instead of directly to exposure which is very reasonable and appropriate newcy I Addy to be able to give a plan work a plan with a student as a pre exposion alternative right often times I think our not exactly our um and I I can't speak to this completely because there's something different that we do for a child has a disability um but it's giving usually um when our board considers expulsion we put in a reinstatement which allows the student to be able to get back into school and graduate it's like having that plan first So
058the plan is if you don't follow this plan the board could go to expulsion or will go to expulsion but it's not built into the expulsion plan it's a pre- expulsion conference where you put together a plan that says here are the things you need to do so that you don't go to expion Lang section titles the paragra up and deleted currently admin 6423 use the credit card basically the purpose 6423 is so that clarifies that there shouldn't be any next one 7545 is just technology new um talked about this one we didn't really understand what the green paragraph Was until Lori helped clarify that but the new language IT addresses external communication and recording devices and that we need to shut them off you want to say anything else no it was kind of
059a timely policy because we do have had we've had some requests and we do have a couple students that have these type of devices which is really a benefit for the family because it's a GPS monitoring for a student that maybe can't communicate and for example might El or leave school grounds or when they're with the family might be just supervision of the family um so we we support that but they also have a recording feature on them or a communication feature where um the the one company that we've worked with um is has been very upfront with the parents thing schools won't allow you to keep that feature active during the school day because it would record other students other students with disabilities in the classroom and so our our families have been good
060about honoring that and signing they even have an agreement that we 7544 it's social media requires parental permission identified as publication and also employes private3 language to include virtual services and to stipulate the requirement 8500 it's a revision to the orri services now see some technical changes there including hand language responsibil report to the board comped disability 8510 reason for wellness committee and purpose option one Chang 50 8600 is transportation language that was previously in 868 Transportation private for district sponsored activities it basically says they're expected to use District transportation provided District clarify 86 and then we last you 34 is has to do professional Le this one that we uh with the change in personal days we had removed incentive days so after this year that is no longer an option for staff and
061then the other one is um two other changes we wanted to make sure they were um one of them is professional and one is support staff and the support staff didn't have the child bearing you that was just a mistake that it should be there that we've always offered that to our support staff as well and then uh clarified the language on the unpaid leave what that looks like and how that uh the board approved that person's to kind of L to help the question so and then the last one is a techical Mon's education scholarship clarifies that to qualify that you have semesters in our Juni we had a great meeting it was long a lot of stuff go people really appreciate all the input from all of the staff and the administration who
062looked at those and I received a call from the on Friday saying the next whatever pass a lot of work goes into from a committee standpoint and from admin so there's not always a lot of discussion between first and second readings so I would just like to again reiterate that I hope that the two proposals um that I or Alternatives that I proposed to made are taken into serious consideration okay we'll move on to group help and dental insurance yeah so um this is the time of year we our health insurance and our dental insurance for the upcoming plan year our plan year runs July 1st through June 30th um in regards to the health insurance we continue to offer two plans to our staff an HMO which is a lower deductible plan and then
063a high deduc C with a health savings account um we worked with our insurance task force which includes a number of employees as well as our insurance broker USI to um review our claims as well as manage our rate caps that we have and offer a a health insurance plan that is um both manageable and sustainable for both employees in the district as well as competitive um so we are uh recommending staying with courts this year our in premium increase on the HMO is an increase of 2.75% which is actually lower than what the standard cost of Health um across uh the United States is so it's a very favorable increase and then the high deductible Health Plan since it's the newer and we have less employees on that it does have a lower premium
064amount uh increase of 775 we do have uh request for the board to make a plan change in that the IRS does have limitations on what the minimum deductibles are to have a qualified Health High deductible health plan so are deductibles just for the conduc Health Plan would be increasing um from 3,200 to 3,300 per single 6,400 from sing Single to 6600 for family um questions on the health Ins Insurance before I mention the dental the dental we um have always been with Delta Dental since I've been here um what we are asking the board to consider is moving to a self-insured model um this won't uh our staff won't see any change outside the fact that they'll get new insurance cards but everything will handle from a claims perspective will be uh sent to
065the district and we'll manage those claims um and pay the insurance directly so if is a reduction in the administrative costs uh we still don't see individual claims but more uh it's just more in group uh invoice kind of think of it from that perspective um and so it saves the district um quite a bit of money to do that um in terms of uh bringing it in house the Self insurance for a dental plan is very low risk because there are caps on our dental insurance already so the max insurance will pay for um one person is $1,000 so we know what the maximum will always be um and so that's why we're taking on the Self insurance for the dental um if we didn't do this uh and stayed with Del so them
066managing the claims they were recommending a 7% increase um so we knew that bringing it in house we could save that administrative costs and that put that back on the burden of the employees so we're recommending only at 2% increases with that thank you are there any questions for son this is on well I'll make a motion to approve the group health and dental insurance as outlined by second motion by Sean second by Tracy to approve the recommendation of the insurance task force to continue a group Heth plan with courts with a 2.75% premium increased for the HMO plan a 775 per premium increase for the high deductible plan and a movement to self-insurance dental plan with Delta Dental with premium increase for 25 or 26 detailed by Sonia has outline in enclosure 15 Insurance
067there any questions all those in favor I opposed thank are there any requests to remove items from the Personnel report for separate consideration we are bringing one teacher to the board for consideration for the next school year uh Blake Doyle is a French teacher he is actually over in France right now um and is coming back he's been teaching over there for the last two years um previous to that he was in Nebraska um so you welcome Blake to our new staff um we also asking for the board for creation of a position of a special care professional at the middle school to help out with student there to the end of this school year um an additional co-curricular contract for the middle and two resignation notifications I'll make a motion to approve the Personnel
068report as anybody sign second motion by Sean signed by Mark to approve the first no report as presented all those in favor I thank you agenda I move for approval of the consent motion by Mark seconded by Brian to approve the consent agenda as presented all those in favor question by Brian by Trac to all those inor than