001e good evening we will call to order the regular Board of Education meeting of Monday February 24th 2025 Christen will you take pH call please Tracy here Eric Mark sh ran herein here and an here I will verify Forum will you please rise and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance i al to the flag of the United States working together to ensure high levels of learning for all thank you Kristen was public notice of this meeting given public notice was given to the requesting news media the agenda was posted in school district buildings and on the district website thank you are there any revisions to tonight's agenda yeah there's a couple we would ask the board to consider moving number 15 and 16 trip in the summer school report after number nine after the
002ski and snowboard team recog motion to approve the agenda as published with the following change to move items number 15 and 16 to follow item nine second motion by eron seconded by Tracy to approve the agenda with noting uh moving item 15 and 16 to uh after item nine to accommodate guests are there any questions or comments all those in favor I opposed tonight's agenda is approved with those noted changes uh we do not have any requests tonight on for public on the published agenda item so we are um starting our meeting with a pretty fantastic recognition some young men who we've seen here before so I'll turn it over to Mr Che sure yeah so we have one of our coaches Cooper Callaway here and former OHS Alum that he's helping out and then
003uh couple of our members from our Ski and Snowboard team uh these guys are on the snowboard uh will and and bod Callaway so will Bey and bod Callaway are here tonight to talk about uh the season and how State went and what's coming up after state for for bod so uh I'll turn this over to you guys and you guys I think you have a prepared statement so uh I'm sure it'll be wonderful uh hello many of you may remember me uh my name is Bod Callaway I'm a senior here at OS and tonight I'm joined by Will bakan and uh my brother and Coach Cooper Callaway um there's a great snowboard and ski season for racing this year um was under new ownership and they did a great job accommodating us um with
004uh newer snow making equipment um so it was great this deing got earlier jump they were able to um start up earlier and had good snow and lot of lots of coverage on the hill um so it was a good year for us um we are co-oped with ainus on Alaska Las stum um and we compete against Logan Central and Province um this year we had 47 Racers on the aows team um 20 of them being from on Alaska 17 werein eight from much and two were hi my name isak so I kind of came into the program not really knowing anything about racing and then these two kind of took me under their wing and this year my senior year I finished seconds and third in SW and then that was enough to take
005second overall at State and like you said there a lot of new developments that across this past season the summer that really helped kind of boost what we able to do with our season this year compared to last really made imp my name is Cooper Cav I'm the uh one of the coaches for the snowboard team um these medals we have displayed I'm not sure how many of you can see them the big one here is the overall um individual that b got and couple of the smaller ones for each individual races and some of the team medals over here on the the championship race the high school championship races were last weekend um Friday was the first day of it and then that was just a partial day kind of like a training and
006practice day and then Saturday was when all the racing took place through the snowboard side of things and then um Sunday was the first day for the ski racing and then Monday was the last day for the ski racing so each discipline each skiward gives two days worth of racing um the women's ski team did good and took third overall in division two um Kendall Carlton that is from OHS was on that team and then the men's ski team took first in division two uh Matt Arsenal a senior or is part of the men's team we have five local male skiers that qualified and are racing the Western Nationals in two weeks at grand tar I've never been there I don't know how to prounce that one so good luck to those guys had it
007out there and then our women's snowboard theme did end up taking second overall and our men's snowb team took fourth overall but had the most individual podiums so six of the seven men's State Racers froms including B Will Carter fortun Cameron Gage Matthew Jackson and Ryan Roberts bod did end up taking first in all three disciplines for a sweep so first in Border across first in Giant and first in that's about all I had one more thing before we wrap up here is uh I'd like to say thank you to the Onalaska booster club for supporting the SK snowboard team it helps a lot um being able to purchase new things like stubbies and whatnot that we need to train um and then thank you to our athletic directors along with Mrs Laur Lee Fegan
008and thank you to Mr Schaffner as always for being a great principal and inspiring us to do great um and then the coaches as well coach Cooper on the other snowboard snowboard coach uh Dirk and then our new head coach Nick Bennett um did a great job this season he uh really filled into the role um was able to um perform well and then one last thanks to all the parents who have donated um whether it be food for State um along with other things it really helps to uh make all the events run smooth um and then we are excited to be heading to Nationals that is in Copper Mountain Colorado um all three of us will be there along with two other um local snowboarders um one from Luther one from West salm
009but thank you all again for your support well I before you scoot out want to do quickly here um this as I indicated when I intro this is not the first time you've been sitting here um sharing this good news so um I want to congratulate you is this three times you three yes it one okay um so you kind of miss that in your uh that's big that's really big and um I how many kids did you say from anas on the stage well six of them competed at the team there's 20 from H Esa that are in the program um that's fantastic to um hear um how much this program has grown um who of my kids participated in this program um a few years back and I don't know if they had
01020 total so um you have clearly brought some excitement and some energy um to the program um wish you the absolute best of luck I think Copper Mountain is that zo that that'll be in the end of March okay so so we very much hope that Mr T will share let us know how you guys do out there um we appreciate you coming in and allowing us to congratulate you in person um sharing about your season and um and great to hear that things are going so well out at Mount lacrosse as well so uh we wish you the absolute best of luck congratulations um on your next venture here um and congratulations once you graduate so thank you thank [Applause] you all right for our changes we here you're gonna do it do you
011want to do summer school is that okay Kelly hi I'm Kelly I'm here to present um the um summer school course offerings for this upcoming 2025 summer programming so it's enclosure 16 uh I'll share first just some of the things that we have new for grades 1 through 12 this upcoming summer we have some location adjustments just due to the construction still happening at om we are extremely grateful that we'll be able to offer summer school programming at the middle school in July we were able with um work with a whole te of people and we were able to make that work so we will be holding our um our grades 5 through eight programming at the middle school we think that that will get a lot of our fifth and sixth graders coming in
012and really increase enrollment there and just open up some enrichment opportunities that I'll share in a little bit um for June we're going to still hold a grade five through eight programming and the high school has been very generous and sharing some space with us again we wanted to go to the high school um we did that not last summer but the summer before and we were able to build a really good relationship with the library so we were glad to be able to get in there again um and just be able to walk down to the library in June so we're excited about that um grades one through four we'll be at Norther Hills Elementary for both the June and July programming our grades 1 through eight multilingual program will be at Northern Hills
013Elementary and then in August and July the kindergarten camps will just be at their respective buildings our families really like to have that where the caners can come in and get some of their building before the school year start our grades 1 through eight academic programming in June we'll just go back to two weeks we have a shorter summer this year so we'll go back to just two weeks we had three weeks last year just because we were done in May so we had a lot more time um our theme for our grade seven8 project based academic program so we're going to stick with that we just started that Project based programming last year and it really increased our enrollment in July so we're going to keep doing that Project based in um programming for
014academics for grade seven eight and we're going to do a theme plan a trip and we have a culminating trip around the lacrosse area that will come on that last day of the programming for our grade seven8 students our multilingual program will run the two weeks in the afternoon along with the June programming in the morning the June academic programming um but they're also going to have an additional two Fridays the teachers were excited to be able to have full day Friday programming for the multilingual students to be able to take field trips so they were able to do that in the past a few years ago and they were really excited to get that back so they're going to do a couple field trips on those Fridays for our multilingual students and then something
015new with our ohos programming our grades 9 through 12 programming is we're going to be offering some of our credit courses online as well as in person so there'll be a combination of in person and online hours to create those totals need for credits where um Charlie and his team surveyed families and they were all in support of this before we made that decision and are um we're hoping that it increases some of our involvement there at the high school too to offer some of that so those are some of our bigger changes happening um grades just to kind of skim through the document a little bit grades one and two are almost exact same as last year with the enrichment opportunities families really enjoyed the variety that we had at that grad for enrichment
016in our July programming so we'll stick with kind of a similar program as we offered for grades one through four where they rotate through the different enrichment opportunities grades three through four get to choose a couple different either active or Hands-On um and then rotate through those we're g to offer coolly region adventure camp again of course and that is early June five days and with the number of Staff interested again we're hoping to be able to offer four sessions like we were last year so every student wanting to participate was able to last year for the first time we didn't have to cut it off um at a certain number so we're hoping to be able to do that with the number of teachers interested in teaching it again we are adding some enrichment
017options for July programming for our grades five through eight we noticed last year we were just surprised at the amount of enrollment that we had and our enrichment classes were um we had pretty high numbers which made it hard on the instructors and we didn't have as much as many different opportunities so we've added in a few we've added in tennis and um pickle ball badminton and those are options because we're going to be at the middle school so once again we're just really grateful for that opportunity um we're also going to add arts and crafts in as an option and we're going to keep the drama which is a huge hit um our staff member who led that drama class she actually had parents come in and see a drama um a drama performance
018at the end of the session so drama was a huge hit we'll keep that one um and then we're hoping to add fishing one of our staff members actually suggested that as an option in there when they filled out the application process so hoping that we can make that work um for our students so those are some of the new enrichment opportunities for our grades five through eight students that we're adding in um and then band last year band is kind of cut small they only did very small amount of programming in August they're going to go back to offering more programming again so they're going to do band camps as well as so for a smaller Studios individual or singular instruments and then a full band camp in August so we're going to be
019doing some extra band that we didn't get to do last summer for grades six through eight there we're going to keep our um our academic interventionist positions we had one at grades 1 through four and one at grades 5 through eight for reading and Ma ventions we're going to keep those we had really really good support for that from both our um from all of our staff in those buildings and programs so we're going to keep those positions and that's that's about all of all of the new all of the same and stuff that we're keeping and yeah any questions well from anyone about the programing I was just curious about that the high school class is partially online yeah really the first time that that has yes this will be the first time we're
020we're excited to be able to offer it um we're going to make sure that the you know um all of the hours make up to meet the credits Charlie and I have been looking into just what's required through the DPI to make sure that we can still give students credit be able to yeah we had some conversations with some neighboring schools and some actually do all virtual and some very little in person so we thought maybe a hybrid of it a little bit might be able to free up a little bit more of the summer rather than um a longer day so like 29 30 days to more like 20 person inperson days along with for virtual hours outside of it hope can make it more family more attractive to to kids and able to
021do it so yeah I mean again it's I know this is you come now but I know you've been working on this for months and months Mons and um it's it takes a great deal of um coordination and uh you know getting staff to um agree to do all of this stuff um I'm I'm happy to hear that you have so many that you're not going to have to put limitations on those really fun um popular programs so I appreciate the work you do um prior to coming here because it's much more than these couple sheets of paper it's a it's team it's a lot of people that come together it's really impressive to see like the bread of coverage across all of the different AG grade levels so a lot of work goes into
022doing that I know but it's really impressive to see that great presentation of what's changing as well this is of theard I'll make a motion to approve the2 summer school course offerings is detailed in enclosure 16 summer school and presented by Kelly motion by Aaron seconded by Tracy to approve the 2025 high school middle school and Elementary School summer school offerings as outlined in enclosure 16 and elaborated by are there any questions or addition comments all those in favor opposed those summer school offerings are approved thank you thank you okay all right um all right we will go to our um student coming Leah will not be okay no worries so we Jared we're gonna start with you unless you want to no I'm here I'm ready um as uh as they're getting a video
023up one of the things you've heard me talk about is some team specific PD focus and then you'll hear a little bit more about that tonight but one of the key things has been getting uh what it normally looks like is a team identifies what their focus is identify when I should come in and get video in their classroom editing it down pulling some students out to get student voice into why this is effective why this isn't and then really learning from that as a team um I didn't want to have a teacher profile this evening just because it's a little more vulnerable in front of an open session like this but um this is a video that was used last week um on Monday with our one of our teams that's looking at how
024to better use student self assessment to drive learning um it's been a focal point and that one team is working on it even more than what we've done as a building um but but this is an example of a student who um I said can you talk a little bit about this to kind of frontload our session that day and she immediately said yes she sat down and and answered the question so I'm just going to put it up there and uh what you won't hear me saying is um tell me what we need to know about student self assessment and then it's just a three-minute video that we'll hear from Alexa tell me when you think about student self assessment so like you talked about doing in your French class you talked about doing
025in your math class first off tell me this is that powerful for you as a learner and so why and if so why not okay so going to be honest most of the times yes they are helpful but sometimes they're not because pause for tell me when they are helpful so for math they have these just like form their checks and at the top it's like all right so before do you think that you can do this it's like a learning not yet proficient and like accelerated or something so then you you check yourself before you try the problems it's usually one to two problems and then after it's like that same question again it's like the per rber so I think it's a great tool to be able to use it before we go
026through the problems as a whole class because you're testing yourself and it's usually stuff that you should know it's stuff that we covered the day before so then when they go through it you see your mistakes and then also it helps because you know where you are versus just having to guess like I feel like I'm good on this I feel like I'm not good but sometimes it's not helpful before we go back cuz I want to do that but before we do that does that help like if you see I'm not where I should be does that make you more engaged if you get drafted resource in that area absolutely yeah because I think that Mrs Anderson especially she really does look at the checks she looks at who's where and does this person
027need help and then automatically if you that you're really confident in it she'll drop you for resource she really does work for you and looking at where you are and where you need to be um and does that that also then helps you think I do need to work on this yes absolutely um so we talk about where it works without saying any names or distinguishing things where doesn't it work then because that's what we want to look at is is how to use it most effectively sometimes doesn't work if you don't know matal and sometimes in a class A lot of majority of the students don't know it which then makes it more difficult to like check yourself because if you aren't super familiar in a an area of like a subject or something
028and you're being tested on it and if you're not getting helped through the results it's not as effective because if you're just doing it by yourself and seeing what you know just won't take the initiative to like look at that see what I did wrong and then apply it to themselves versus the teacher like going through it so I think that if the student tries it first and then the teacher goes through it after I think that's more helpful than just giving an assessment to the K so so knowing right away from the teacher you have or you don't is essential yeah um and then also having a response if you don't know it yeah absolutely okay is there anything about student assess that we should know I like they're not basically that's it back
029up you you mentioned that you like it that it's not graded yeah why because it doesn't put pressure on kids I know that I'm especially not a great test taker because I get like oh my God what if I feel this and the formatives I think are really nice because it's just checking let you know it's not upgrading the take it or bring it up more it's more of a like oh okay like this is what I know this is what I don't there's no pressure behind it at all is there one last question Lea is there a difference we've talked about if we collected cut it off is there a difference there in terms of your so this was an example of using the student voice to set up the whole PD time for
030that team for the hour because what she hits on is exactly what the team had takeaways from in November in terms of clarity about what they need to know getting immediate feedback and having a response that they don't know it um and then the team after that add hard copy examples of recent self assessments they've used and then we went through and had a checklist of did they get immediate feedback was there a response if they didn't know and so on and so forth so um it's amazing what students can share if you give them a chance to share and how they can help Drive what we're doing that's a little bit what it looks like minus the teacher practice question I just um resource um are the teachers also looking at this and even
031if they don't say draft me like if they really T it they will still we want we want students to identify when needed help but we also have a check in place that if you don't know it and I know it we're going to draft you anyway even if not okay just because sometimes people are think oh well it's just this so that's great that you have backup for that thank you when when are these do Jared when you handed this out I thought oh my god do we have to close right uh Jason do you have anything sure I do um the time of the year for some of our clubs um it's a fun time for them because it's their competition season so for example quiz Bowl UB PLA and and many others
032have a lot of their state competitions coming up here and some have already had them so it's it's fun for those students who've been working in their clubs all year to kind of have uh an ending enclosure anyway um and have some cool places to go and things to do for that uh this past Saturday student council had uh LED our Winter Dance So was well attended um it was a great time everybody was well behaved and and uh it a good way to spend a Saturday evening so uh February March in the sports world that always means you know wi playoff uh series time some of our teams have already completed their seasons and others they'll have um playoffs and whatnot coming up here in the next few weeks so exciting there tonight we
033got a band concert at the PAC afterwards here at 7:30 so no no press in but got it on ton and as always just want to express our my thankfulness for the school district and all of our parent like booster clubs and how you how everybody works together to create opportunities for our students because it's just not that way place and and I know our students are really thankful for that thank you li school all right well we've had a lot of exciting things happening since we last spoke um specifically we had our winter Wellness two Fridays ago I went to Wellness day and a lot of really cool stories and opportunities for kids that day if you haven't seen on Facebook Nick's work with our ice fishing crew please check that out some really
034cool stuff had a couple of teachers take about 12 or 15 kids out ice fishing during winter Wellness um for most of them it was the first time they had ever been and they had they had a blast and so really cool to see kids get opportunities like that um similarly we had a couple of so one of the options for kids on that day was to go high skating and we had a couple of our eighth grade students who are big hockey guys and they asked if they could stay there all day and just help everybody out and so they got to hang and um you know it's really to see students put in a position where they feel really confident and competent and um a lot of the younger kids really enjoyed getting
035help time skates you know from these guys who are the big hockey guys and so that was a cool thing too um on the same day we also had 10 kids who decided they didn't want to do any of the fun stuff well any of the traditionally fun stuff because they wanted to go do math so we had 10 students go compete at West West at the math counts uh Regional competition Middle School level and happy to say that on Middle School took first in the team as well as individual competitions and so we have uh four students U who are going to be competing at the state level as a team as well as two students competing at the individual level in the state competition um speaking of math just another highlight from some
036of our recent PVS and just kind of ongoing thing as our back have been going on our Math teachers have been doing a lot of great work comparing to previous years how they've been doing with a lot of the benchmarks and so it's things as simple as making sure that we have word walls up in the classrooms or that we have the standards that we're focused on in lessons uh the target for the lesson up there today as well as how we're structure in the classroom as well as um like question and discussion techniques and it's just checks that we'll do with our B Coach Peterson going through the classroom making sure that those core features of best practices in MTH instruction are place so that's been a lot of work that they've been putting
037in lately and want yeah thank you to keep on the theme of adult learning we know for our students to learn at high levels our adults need to be learning at high levels as well we had the equity PD on the 17th which was well organized and very highly engaging for our staff many SS first you have to choose from expanding their knowledge of different cultures in the community we had a couple of different student panels of high school students that were those usually have a wait list for people to um see those they're exciting and popular and some with restorative circles and how to improve our own selfcare and balance as well so a lot of different sessions presented by our own staff it was really nice to see that expertise that we have
038within our own staff and have them share that with others and then across the elementaries last week we also each building a full day with Shannon keer for our Mass PD continuing the theme that we've been working on with her this year so she was able to model lessons at three different grade levels at each of our buildings so she taught nine lessons across the three days which was quite a bit but um doing it as like a fishbowl where the others in the grade and Specialists were able to come and observe and then take time afterwards to debrief with her what they saw what they saw the students do what worked well and what they might do as their next moves and uh I was very positively um I guess surprised that it was
039things people could put into place in their classroom the next day so as I walked around the next day I was like oh I saw her do that yesterday and now we're able to do that successfully the next day so it's been really positive for all of our staff and a shout out to Nick ragner he came and recorded each of those sessions and edited them down so that the rest of our staff can continue to have those as part of our PD library that they can work with as well um and then all of our third graders across the district are going to the symphony next week so that's very exciting they're getting ready to see audience members for the symphony and it's a Disney themed which should be really engaging for our kids
040as well and we also have read Across America week next week um the theme uh is let's share the stories that raise up the many voices that need to be Amplified and heard so our teachers have different books from different regions around the country that they have to choose from to for um the voices found their in and at Northern specifically we had our fancy lunch you may have seen some of mix's pictures of that it's strawberry milk which is very exciting can't have that every day but it's exciting to have as a once in a while treat and we also have our winter family fun night coming up this Friday with bingo so that's exciting as well hosted by our PTO and then Mr sen also wanted to share they have a family dance
041coming up next week on March 7th it's a Wild Wild West theme but no cowboy boots for the S of the hand it over to Miss Davis um so at per we are looking forward to our classroom visits and concerts for our first to Fourth Graders this week and then on Saturday we have a grade level gathering for both prek and first grade where be doing crafts and then some situation so well as always um lots of of good things going on and um I tonight a lot of not only that our students are stepping up for those leadership opportunities they're given willingness to be videotaped at the high school step up and do that extra help but um also our staff um I think I heard L say staff recognize that they were able
042to do it which is different than stepping in and doing it the next day so I think that speaks volumes about the people we have here on our team and their willingness to learn and Implement right away is really pretty fantastic um so again to borrow what we said in keeping with the theme of um adult learning um we have an extra um sentence on here tonight um the board um will have an opportunity to comment on our own recent uh professional development um we had a meeting professional development meeting last week um whereby we had the opportunity to learn um relearn uh continue to absorb uh roles and responsibilities of uh Board of Education and a superintendent um we had our own um Dr Pinko who did the presentation for us who's done it
043before uh for those of us whove been around um and has done it in other districts as well um just a really good opportunity to uh remind us what our responsibilities are what our role is how we work um directly with the superintendent what that individual's role and responsibility is um just reminding us of the importance of of staying in our lane um holding uh tight the responsibilities that we have and holding that individual tip to the responsibilities that they have so um it was a really good night of um continuous learning for us as a board um Roger also was there that evening and shared um his Wis knowledge and his um V experience in that um in the many roles he's had to in teaching and um improving districts in the area so
044I appreciate you both for your time that night um I will give other members an opportunity to share think I would just add onto what what H stated I think it's it's a it's a blessing to have the opportunity to sit down as a as a group and learn and remind ourselves of our responsibilities um you know kind of jointly as well as with the with the district administrator especially as we prepare to uh you know start the interview processed and and IDE we select the next person for that role I just want to say thank you to friend Roger for taking time in the evening to to give us a great reminder and a lot of new things that every time I hear it I learn something new and take away something that that
045I think is so important to the success of as also than you gr a good thing so we see all the professional development everybody does and thank for the opportunities done that internally I think that conversation was really good we're all better for that trust which is the currency of conversations trust a lot one of the things we did was this worksheet where they said what do you think the board does and what do you think the superintendent does and it was very hard and the takeaway from that though was that some of the activities are joint between the superintendent and the board and then the takeaway from that was communication the importance of communication to make sure that we both understand what each person is doing as part of that um process so it
046was very helpful that rung true for me was that um we have to hold each other accountable so Eric if you're out your lane I have to say Eric that's matter respons and he do me unfortunately I was out of town and I couldn't but I did hear some positive things earlier about the meeting as well yeah you know I guess you still have to come back I still come back to the words of board Governors how we function absolutely and although you weren't there um obviously your years of experience here on the board um bring a great deal of value to the rest of us um you've lived this you've lived our mission for many many years and um I know you wanted to be there but we appreciate um you speaking tonight so
047thank you I was just wanted to comment too that like there's just this ongoing theme that we hear t about like peers helping peers and I just think that's fantastic it's very impressive that you know we're developing the type of students that want to help each other and our teachers are supporting each other and as a you know we all want to better ourselves as a board so I just want to make a comment and like just voice my appreciation for that thank you all right um we do have a donation tonight okay we we received a donation from the St P kns of Columbus $750 donation for the an ability program so we're very grateful for them that they do yeah extremely and although um it does not rise to the level of requiring
048approval um we believe strongly it's important to acknowledge it in this public forum of course um and and other avenues in which we do but so incredibly generous of um the kns of Columbus to be thinking of our students and families in the unability program so we thank them for that building updates who wants to go first I think the high one's on the top yeah um things went a little slower last week and the week before due the cold weather with the uh being able to do the the roofing work but that starts again now this week um you'll notice on the pictures on the screen they were able to do the brick work with the plastic covering the gym storage and so that is half done finishing the rest of that this week
049if we scroll down a little further um there's been a lot of work happening in the existing teched area um demoing that and then preparing it for the new portion of the facility um and then if we scroll down we'll see um the dance studio is also being got started on last week on Monday um and then also the gym storage is 99% completed at this point um two small things left to finish with that but the bulk of the work will be on the eastn Edition they also started demoing in the B locker rooms this week on Monday um so those will be off limits now for the rest of the school year all right over at the Middle School uh cold weather also recently impacted progress unfortunately a little bit but I'm happy
050to report that there's a a roof at least on part of the eighth grade classrooms um so they they've been able to get that up there I saw people not only putting the roof on but standing on it so it must be somewhat sturdy so we're making good progress there you can see this is that addition that I'm referring to right there um that's a little bit more of it on the inside that's uh that's upstairs on the second level so again they're working on putting the putting the roof decking on this week on the top uh these are our beautiful new instrument storage cases in our music classroom um that is the next kind of domino space that we'll get access to as our new music classrooms and uh sorry just the just the
051band room the new band room the other new music classrooms won't be until this summer but the new bandroom is beautiful the music teachers I was in there the other day with them and they were just gushing at uh everything and how excited they were um personally I'm pretty excited about these storage lockers myself because my son just switched from to Tuba so that's a nice benefit right there keep it right on site um this is more of the case work uh just shelving in the in the band room inside the band room there's uh not only an office for the band teachers but there's also multiple practice rooms as well as an in instrument storage uh excuse me Instrument Repair room um and so a place where I think be have Partnerships with uh
052life holds and ssse um they come around a couple of times ath and can do some repairs on site so they don't have to take the instruments away and have lost trying students uh again a little more little more of the bandr it's even further along than this right here whole bunch of mechanical stuff that doesn't mean much um but it's important stuff doesn't mean much in terms of me being able to explain that's that's what I'm saying important work so anyways um you know outside of just getting ready for the band room and continue to work on the eth grade Corridor not much else since our last it's um the band copies of the instrument storage has like that's been coming right along I we saw it when we toured which was less than
053a month ago and then I think your last pictures they didn't have doors so that's pretty fantastic um all right um update for um new superintendent um our applications the window closed um a week ago Friday um the um board members were able to um access that information online we then met on Sunday afternoon of that week I think it was the 16th um went through um all of that application material we had a pool um from those applications um we have determined um a pool of six candidates that we will interview in Co session as those things uh remain confidential um through this first set of interviews but we will interview a couple nights this week um we the intent is to move that to a pool of six Ander a pool of three
054and then um those interviews are scheduled for the first week in March um and that will be a an opportunity for the community to participate um our administrative team cabinet members will participate and then a second interview with the Board of Education that evening so um Lots going on um as far as that is concerned um exciting time we appreciate the help that we are receiving from Bruce Quinton um from WB um also the additional support and help we reing from um Sonia and uh Kristen who is putting in lots and lots of extra hours um taking care of us and making sure that we're organized so um we appreciate that um it's an exciting time um as nerve-wracking has changes it's also good so um we hope to have an answer um within really
055within the next month so is opportunity for people to meet B candidates so there will be an opportunity for Community Forum that evening at uh in the the community portion of that will take place in the PAC at the high school and um Bruce Quinton will be moderating that part of the evening so that was okay all right so we are going to talk tonight about um pillar two and three of our strategic plan so I'm GNA have BR intr thank you um just a reminder that pillar two and three which we're going to cover tonight support pillar one right so communication family engagement hiring and retaining good staff I'll support our academic achievement in pillar one you look at the first um part of this side where it says no signal you can see
056there were there's two goals in in the pillar one from a district perspective the first one is to increase the family experience survey result High leverage question what we did this time was we added the question actual what is the question that we're trying to improve on and that is I would recommend my child School to a family who does not currently attend here if you look at the action step on your computer you can see there were three from first semester one collect information and current practices to communicate with families I'm not going to report on that because that's that's the actions that were done at the elementary school and they're going to in the buildings and they're going to talk about that the second was the survey families and teachers to identify the
057essential components of good communication they're going to about that also but the last thing was to identify a work group um so that we can figure out a way to get information um better get information to the families and and the results of those three I'm going to direct this strictly to the third one we put together a focus group that came up with um looking at Family apps that you can families can access information and they and they did a lot of work they looked at a number of different apps and then and then the plan stopped when we got down to the final one or two because we're also looking at a new student information system and we want to make sure that that app ties into the new student information system so
058if you look on the second semester action step that's the second action item and we're going to tie that app in with the new Sy system once once we deter is and then you can see what else is going to happen that the families will be surveyed again in the spring so that we can get a beginning of the year end of the year type of response from from them in terms of recommending the schools and making sure that the communication is the second any questions about that the second goal has to do with Community engagement and the question on the survey was I would recommend SCH dist of on Alaska period And so what we did was the action step the first one was reamp the school of the community newsletter which happened again
059we saw the green the first school and again with this school um and then to develop a strategy to increase survey response rates so what we did was as a as a district we started sending out the community newsletter quarterly so that actually happened and it goes every box holder in onas so you live here if you get mail here you get you get a newsletter and actually people comment I don't know if they comment to you board members but they comment to me when I'm in like the grocery store or something we saw this in the newsletter so we know it's getting into people's hands and then the second one was um we tried to do a community survey we did do a community survey but we we didn't get as many people as
060we wanted to respond so we wanted to come up with a strategy to how we could increase the survey response rate and what we did was this is Lori's work and Nick's work we came up with a postcard and we passed this out and I I think I linked it to the board over the weekend but this is the front of the postcard and this is this is mailing part of the postcard you can take a look at that this is going to go out to every box holder in anasa also and what we're asking for them to do is to let us know if they want more information over and above the quarterly newsletter so there's a way for them to scan the QR code if if they like me and they don't know
061about QR codes they can send us their email address and what we'll do is monthly minimum a monthly note will go out to them we're not going to Nate them with with um things that they're not interested in but on a quarter on a monthly basis we're going to try to give them that are updated so we're getting to them more than just 4ly and that's that's a strategy um in terms of under develop a better response rate and you can see what on semester two action steps we're going to continue with the letter has in the Post Guard and so on and then and then the final part of that Community survey is once we get this Coast Guard in people's hands and we get them to respond to to us with their email
062addresses then we're going to do the community survey again either the end of of March or early April so that we can get a greater response from people and another thing that we did with our survey and we actually finished it today was instead of just asking them a question about communication we're giving them in the survey a little brief here's how we communicate with you now now was that's good or not rate us and then tell us what we can do better same thing with with the the education piece of it and tell them about the courses that are offered at the high school and activities and so on talk about the graduation rate and then we ask same thing with fisal responsibility so the survey I think will be more informative to them
063um and it still won't take much time for them to fill out so hopefully responses in April sure that that's the district part Lori thank you for that she held my hand through that process and now we go to the so at the elementary our action steps were kind of seemed kind of small I guess but we were supporting a lot of the action steps that Dr FCO just described so we did that work of collecting the information from families and from teachers about what we currently use to communicate and that's what underpins a lot of the work that that work group is doing what we did specific to Elementary this semester was adding grade level specific family engagement events you might remember that one of the things we heard in our family surveys last
064year was that sometimes the open house where all 500 children and their families are there is overwhelming and you might get 30 seconds to speak to your kid's teacher so we decided to include the grade level family engagement events as well we're still doing an open house it still has a a good function but adding those grade level specific family engagement events each building was able to do at least two I believe first semester and have more on the book um some grade levels did more than one already this year because they found it to be very valuable we colored that one green because just our anecdotal data from families and speaking to them at these events is that they really enjoyed it and also we're having a really high participation rate so that feels
065like this is going dire but what we want to do for second semester for action steps is continue the grade level events but then get some more specific feedback from families on is this meeting your needs is this what you meant when you told us that you wanted something different so that's really what we're looking at for our PR two forment um we discussed with our guiding Coalition opportunities um to improve the way that we do um the family conferences and then also open house and the um fall of 25 seems far away but that's something that we have to start planning for now um we attempted to do that this fall but we were unable to our gym wasn't ready and a lot of things weren't ready on schedule so we're really wanting to
066have three separate grade level open houses um we talked about this a lot um planning for this year and we have the plan but uh getting staff to be able to lead some of that and then also um the specific topics that we want to cover is something that we're talking about with our guiding Coalition now and then as far as uh the family conferences go um we're offering um vouchers for the big boes coming to have a like food truck there and we're wanting to increase participation by offering some families vouchers in order to um encourage them maybe they encourage them to come to um conferences maybe families that we don't engage with um normally and that's something that um community members as well as some um members in our school want to um
067donate towards um in order to increase the participation so we're really excited about that and our guiding Coalition is leading the way that we're doing conferences so that uh we adjusted this this fall um parents can sign up or Guardians can sign up with the teacher of their choice rather than being um assigned a teacher to sign up with and that has been um a response directly from our um the survey that we sent out last is it fall and as a direct response to that and we continue to do that so that families can sign up with the teacher of their choice our bookus first semer is looking at how we communicate with parents at every grade level whether it's uh the nth grade level 10th 11th 12th the the variety of different ways
068um and you're going to see it's coded yellow because it's hard to determine what the I mean we know what we're doing we identifi some gaps but in terms of the impact it's hard to stay positive or not which is why I guess I would call it undecided a key piece that we're looking at going into second semester and actually was a focal point two weeks ago at a staff meeting our school is a is a key communication tool for families as well as students um and this came up from students as well as families and the importance of adhering to the expectations we have from a staff standpoint about what is supposed to be ower school how has it communicated the protocols um so that was again a reminder two weeks ago at our
069staff meeting and uh checks in place every three weeks through the end of the school year as part of that not have ice fishing I saw Facebook post with kid just authentic Joy really they are and it's day you can just go there for aot of Joy amazing happen and are we still those not I remember that from last year and that was just such an amazing thing that doesn't SCH so such a great thing is they send notes out to parents about hater St your daughter is and it comes out of the blue it's not like a so the kid their name parents get together it's just such an authentic oneone thanks Eric and and to your point a lot of the stuff that we're doing as the Strategic plan from previous years are
070really impacting um pillar two and then you'll see this in pillar three as we talk about our staff survey some of the things that we've done in the past um are now really you're reaping the benefits of what that is so in terms of pillar two that's the recruitment um development and retention of our staff and so to highlight that um when we do our employee survey we do an employee survey every other year so we did one in 23 24 and then we had H focus groups at each buildings and which allowed us to move forward with plans as we kind of shared here um the full implementation of ourl programming we created the resilient learner positions we're piloting the ka8 ELA resources we did a lot with um for our teachers as well
071as the port staff and then the benefits of personal days and then um even under pillar four and um Janet's work with uh School nutrition as well so I just wanted to highlight these and kind of share the impact of that on our staff survey so then normally as I said we have that survey every other year this year what we did is we called it a pulse check we had um just a quick survey of St it was 11 questions that were specifically tied to the pillar three work that we did um so there's two areas within our scorecard and our strategic plan that that survey highlights and that's employee satisfaction and then engagement in professional development so all our goals are tied to these surveys um and these specific areas so you'll see
072the again employee satisfaction and then that engagement in PB so when you think of in satisfaction these six bullet points are some of those questions that were asked of our staff and then the professional development is us that materials the trading development but also useful feedback um so from a district perspective our first goal was on the employees satisfaction that I referenced as the survey and so what we found is two of the lower scores were related to the questions I trust the district's leadership and the district is heading in the right direction you'll see the score on the right that impact is green um that's probably it wasn't anything that we did this quarter looking back and further how much we've change that I highlighted on that screen so we had a significant increase
073in this employees score from 3.84 to 4.06 the action set for uh the district here we were looking at our district Rec strategy how we utilize that with our core values it's not to say that that work isn't happening now but can we look at it in a larger term where it starts from the board all the way down to our our staff and even our students and the community uh there wasn't much work from my standpoint working on this so it's not to say again it hasn't been happening we just haven't I haven't had the ability to work on it also we also need a superintendent that knows and understands wants to buy into this so I would hate to start a program when we have a new superintendent that might want a different
074Vision so kind of putting a little hold on this in terms of actually Implement implementation but also still for next semester here for this next quarter is looking at what are our Norm districts doing is there something that we can um mimic or um develop a strategy on that and look at it from a district perspective the other are in the survey is that engagement and professional development again we had a significant increase on our staff survey going from 3.95 to 4.3 so a lot of work we've already continued on this um one of the things that we're doing this year is looking at that I received useful feedback to help improve my work um we have our educator Effectiveness for our teachers but we don't have a a good system yet for our support
075and hourly staff and so there is a gr that are leading measures on how to um give better feedback in evalu evaluation system that is around our core values as well too so that's um working on that now so we can roll that out in 25 26 I just appreciate your time in doing the post check and for all the staff who completed the survey um even though it's done every other year um in my time being on the school board so far it's been very obvious that like our administrators a lot of quick wins so if there's something that we can identify that we can make a difference like they're making it happen so I appreciate that you did the post check because you know a lot can change in a year so abut
076you yeah based on kind of what we've done um from the last survey um we did go around and share the results of the survey through the focus groups this year that pulse check um we allowed the buildings to do that in terms of meeting with their guiding Coalition their entire staff and kind of sharing the the celebration because where we were from last year to this year is is quite an improvement at the elementary level our action steps really were implementation of building specific action steps related to the survey data so I will share specifics for Northern and then I'll share for Mr sen and then I'll hand it over to Mrs Davis so at Northern Hills regarding our employee satisfaction in the employee from the employee engagement some of the things we implemented
077were a monthly Behavior recording system to determine the students in need of Behavioral intervention we did a lot of work with our guiding Coalition around the survey results to figure out what would be workable for them and then also having regular meetings with our pair professionals to discuss their new and concerns those have been very positive and supportive so our action tip for semester to is really to continue that and monitor it to ensure that it's still meeting our needs and then for engagement in professional development survey we implemented the Northern Hills navigator to ensure Clarity on job embedded PD and how to communicate need and concerns and kind of just what's expected at Northern Hills so to your earlier question Eric if we're still sending postcards that's in the Northern Hills Navigator as an
078experation so that's what uh that's what I mean by the Navigator is these are your Clarity on your expectations so our action step is to continue using that found in the first semester three different things that people said this wasn't quite clear enough so we were able to make on that so that's what I anticipation at uh Eagle Bluff they are working on adding more specific questions to their rounding conversations so Mr s had some specific questions he asked in rounding and for second semester he's wanting to just tweak those a little bit so he's adding questions like would you recommend this school or this District to someone who is seeking employ why or why not to really get at that specific employee piece of things and then they worked on a shared document of
079areas of expertise that they could use around the school for job embedded PD and they're going to Pilot a video study similar to what youve heard Mr shaer talk about so that's what they'll be working on in um and then at perch um we did take a survey and identify some theme specific to perch and then head action steps around with Care Professionals and providing support and professional development for them on an ongoing basis um also shout out on the announcements to have that public recognition for our kids and our staff as to what's going well um and then really refining our Behavioral Systems of support so rather than having maybe um a student specific problem solving meeting we're looking more grade level and then we're meeting more frequently to make sure we're hting all
080the kids um who need our support then in terms of professional development just continuing with those per professional meetings and providing job eded Prof development and that might look like shadowing a special teacher or maybe another pair professional so that they're gaining the skills that they need to work with students um so then again like Li said maintaining those action steps in alignment with our with our themes would be something that we're going to be doing in the next semester um then at perch as we reflected on the overall pulse check you know like you said it's important to kind of know how we're doing and what we can do next um just recognize that there's something around um celebrations too so just highlighted to our guiding Coalition that 95% of our staff agree or
081strongly agree that their work contributes to the overall mission and vision um so we wanted to highlight that and celebrate that and we thought that a good way to do that would be to then um really lecture our student rounding we did something different this year we had a two week uh period at the beginning of January where we had staff members meet with every single student in our building and then devis some themes from that and they kind shed some unique celebrations about what they like about perch and then also what they would like to see like sparkles or you know PE every day um so we're just taking those to celebrate what our staff is doing and just highlight that what they do every day does matter um and it does make a
082difference in those large and small ways academic and otherwise um so something that we're doing at our next staff meeting which we think is going to be pretty great is to um replicate what happened at the equity PD with the student panel invite some of our approach graduates um for now at the high school back to really share their experience what made a difference for them all right so at the middle school for pillar three with the goal of uh focused on employee satisfaction a couple of things that we really focused on this first semester is with all of our new staff and we had probably about 10 new staff having 30 and 90 so 30 days Days really check really honing in more on all of our new employees new people checking in more
083frequently with them in a real intentional way um simple things that like you know how to log into all the places you need to log into um to like hey how's your how's it going with your new team you know things of that nature and so I think that that has been a fantastic thing um also our our weekly tier 2 SEO grade level meetings and this is something that actually came from staff suggestions over the summer that we put into place this spring and we've tweaked him a little bit here and there but so far it's been a really posi both from a standpoint of coming together in staff the problem solve together but also we've been able to really help a lot of students to catch some things that are going on and
084keep them small before they turn into bigger issues there so all that said and told um you know the goal was to go from 378 to 393 and at the post check we're at 4.22 so things are things are going well with that um this semester our our focus is Shifting to series of we're calling belonging conversations of the key features we've talked about all year as we do these things well we're going to be in a good place and one is student belonging and one is Staff belonging so we're going to explore that at a deeper level across different settings for example our first one we just belong like home and so we spend some time in our recent staff meeting kind of unpacking that Pairs and then smaller groups and larg group as
085well so that's what we got going on for employe in terms of the engagement professional development um biggest thing we've been focusing on is uh reflection and calibration around the feedback that we give and I know that that's something I've been working on Jen as well as with LA Peters specific to math for Lory for example but making sure that just like we're asking teachers to give quality actionable feedback for students trying to make sure that we're doing the same and I know that one of in this District that I really appreciate is that each teacher picks three Focus standards and so everybody picks the three domains that they want to focus in on the most because there's there's 24 different teacher standards if we're trying to get better at 24 different things at once
086it's not going to happen um we still are expecting good things with all of that but in terms of having a specific not focused to provide actual feedback I know for me and Jan as well when we're in to be able to narrow down that focus of what we're providing feedback on has been really helpful um so we'll continue to work with staff this next semester in terms of what those are and possibly kind of like Jared's doing a little bit having either I don't know if we'll have a building wise Focus for next year but maybe team specific focuses so that know right now everybody's piing three on their own individually and um just wondering could it be even more powerful if we are as teams or maybe then as a bu Tak the
087same focus on so the goal was to go from 373 to at least 388 and currently a post9 are aot I would just add that the other enclosure that is in there um is the actual official scorecard that's on our website and it highlights not only uh pillar three but pillar one two three and four and any updates that we have um at the district level and then each building in the scores that we have um and as we periodically get more updates in each area that we have in the cour card we'll share that with the board in general public as well I should have added to um a key piece of the employee satisfaction my staff have really liked the work down you did with the person s day changes um that come
088through loud and clear and and uh it's been really they they really felt respected through that process not lot of celebrations in this document um and in last meeting too but um this is really remarkable work um just even looking at our scorecard on the last page um we are at or incredibly very near meeting our um we step for 26 um really really remarkable work um Sonia for all you've done I have also heard um in the community to the impact the change in the compensation and the um personal days um really meant a lot um I think Jared said it best felt very respected so um thank you for your work on that and all of you for the work you do um recognizing and acknowledging how important our staff are to what
089we do um I really can't say enough about how amazing this this look so thank you for all of your hard work one question thank you your leadership and all this advate you are for teachers not sure what you mentioned the two lowest questions are I trust the district's leadership and the district is heading in the right direction kind of square in the chest is that something even though it's a post how do we engage with that question we need to now how do we yeah that's a good question um we know that trust is an emotion how people feel about you right and and U they base that on a few things one is how well we communicate how well they think how confident they they think we are are we are we um
090reliable in what we do right so if we if we communicate with people we show confidence in what we do um we build trust when talks about District trust we're talking about districtwide trust right so we can do that as a whole group in terms of building continue to communicate I think you speak some things in the plan reaching out more and more to families and to community members and just listening to what they say and then responding to their feedback and I think the more we do that and the more we can communicate the celebrations we're physically responsible we're academically strong our teachers are getting better our administrators are getting better our boards getting better we can communicate that to people I think that we take away the any reason why people wouldn't trust
091us I would add to Eric that although those were the lowest scores ones they're not significantly low and we were improving from last year to this year so for example I trust the district leadership last year was 3.7 and it's moved up to 3.97 um heading in the right direction it was 3.82 last year this year it moved up to 4.06 so we are moving forward all right thank you very much um I see Mr Moses is here no no worries quite frankly you're right where you were going to be so this is perfect no worries no worries you're here to talk to us about um a choir orchestra trip sure um we are hoping that you will approve a trip next year uh that would occur approximately March 26th through April 1st um we
092would be heading to New York City we're not sure how many students will go uh but we're projecting between 160 and 200 with 20 to 25 chaperon uh we will travel by bus and whether we go all the way to April 1st or come back on March 31st has a lot to do with the busing costs they've gone kind of cray cray so we'll just see where that's happening I just talked to my person today and they're saying they're having difficulties with the busing so but at some point we'll get it I don't know how much it will cost uh and then we also we will be using the world's strides Festival again where we participate in um a competition at Riverside Church it's a beautiful venue uh kids love it they have a ceremony
093at the end of the day where they give trophies and uh then they take us on a dinner cruise uh around the the bottom of New York City to go around to the East River and see New York lit up at night and last year was a really one trip they' got a better Boat Line and better food and kids had a great time and then the chaperon got out and danced um the attractions we always try to do four Broadway shows three or four or three three to four shows uh we're up again for the 911 memorial we did that four years ago or three years ago and then we would like to do the Top of the Rock again and then the other things we do are uh like we go to a
094museum our last time we went to the Met we'll probably go to MoMA or gugenheim some other some other Museum since some of the kids probably would have already seen the other one and then there's always shopping and and touristy things that they can do on their own uh we would provide five dinners and four breakfasts um the cost of the student is somewhere between 1,700 and 1850 but we're working towards the lower end uh and this is totally a guesstimate because I don't know how much busting will be I don't know how much food will be uh but I've done some preliminary work talking to the restaurants and talking to the hotel and uh I think we're going to be able to be closer to 1,700 there will be several fundraisers we will have
095candy bar sales which we do every every other year and we uh Ashley for the Arts now will be offered as individual fundraisers as opposed to it used to be a group thing uh participation was lower because it was August and people were gone but if student wanted to earn money towards their account they could do it and apparent could work too we do this uh donation letter where they send out it's basically a paper version of GoFundMe they write a letter personal letter saying please uh uh consider donating to my account and uh then we they do thank you letters if they get a donation then we have them write thank you letters to the people who donated and it's it's 100% profit so that's why we do that and there will be other
096opportunities available uh working festivals or events at the Omni Center uh so we provide them with several opportunities to make money uh some kids just work and save up their own money or parents pay for it but we uh try to give as many opportunities as possible if someone the situation is where they have to come up with their own trip money we give them several opportunities where they can make a majority of the trip so far since 2014 we've done it every two years and um it's been a highlight of a lot of students memories and it certainly is uh enjoyable for me to see them enjoy at the city so much does anybody have any questions or would like me to elaborate on something I've talked about I I don't have a question
097I just had a comment Richard is you know having has students go through this program I firsthand understand the benefits of this from a transformational uh memory a cultural experience educational experience right I mean it's a it's a fantastic program that you put together in the past I think the and the opportunities the students have to to earn those those dollars to be able to go um is a it's just it's a wonderful experience for them and I'm glad that you're continuing to to press that forward appreciate that thank you I'll make a motion to approve the trip request by Richard Moses for the 2026 trip for choir and Orchestra to New York City as outlined in his presentation in this paper he gave us motion by Tracy seconded by Brian to approve the choir
098and Orchestra choir and Orchestra trip to New York City in 2026 as um detailed by Mr Moses and outlined in his handout tonight are there any questions or comments all those in favor I opposed approv thank you thank you and I also wanted to say that my personal staff satisfaction of where I'm working is a 50 5.0 thank you I been talking to friends from other districts thank you are there any requests tonight to remove items from the personel report for separate consideration so we have two retirees this year and these will be the only retirees for teachers this year as the deadline was February 15th the subber and Shelley Peterson and normally we turn it over to our principles to share so I'll let Jared start with Sue Brewer uh Sue's been in her
099District since 2005 she started out as a par professional at Eagle block uh she came to the high school as a health care professional um and did just fabulous job there with student care um and then has also done she's subbed as a health teacher um she was an at risk teacher for two years and now the last four or five years has been family and consumer science um and she's embraced that she's done the extra work to become certified for the assistant child care certification we talked about the last meeting um has really worked hard to make that program what it needs to be for lots of different types of students and and Mr s I'll talk a little bit about sh she has been a teacher for 34 years 33 of them being
100at on Alaska she started out at the middle school as a fifth grade teacher um she had a little stint at Irving Birch and then was one of the founding teachers at Eagle BL and it wvil um you will see Shelly out in the an Alaska community at every event if she hasn't taken your ticket she probably will soon and I don't think she's she'll probably take a little time off because she has to for wrs purposes and then she'll be back um helping out um at the high school in any event that is possible so she is been a breath of fresh air at on a last and you certainly miss her in retirement um and then we have one resignation uh request that's Brian molat um he has been with us um since
101I believe it 2012 or 2013 as our French teacher at the high school so he'll miss but he's moving on to Bangor to be the principal and then and that Gad is going to help us out filling out a couple extra hours for the remain of this school year years of leaving us here um but of course we um wish them all the best um to Brian um obviously big shoes to fill but um moving on to to bigger things for his family which is really quite fantastic and um to Sue and shell um their commitment andion they've provided to us for all of those years will be greatly missed and um I'm sure we'll see them both around so motion to approve the Personnel report as detailed in a closure 17 and presented by
102son motion by Aon second is by sh to approve the Personnel report as outlined in the closure 16 and detailed by all those in favor I opposed the Personnel report is approved are there requests to remove items from the uh consent agenda for separate consideration tonight I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda as outlined in our agenda motion by Tracy seconded by Shan to approve the consent agenda as presented in item 18 are there any questions all those in favor I opposed the consent agenda is approved we have no further business second motion by Brian seconded by Tracy to adjourn all those in favor I opposed we are adjourned before 7:30 Mr Terry