001All right, the time is now 7 o'clock and we'll call this meeting to order. Has this meeting been posted? Yes, it has. Uh roll call will show that four uh board members are here. Uh Kristen Settle is excused on a work trip and both student board members are here. And uh we'll begin tonight with the pledge of allegiance of the stands andice for all. All right, we'll begin this uh meeting with Panther Pride. In honor of teacher appreciation week, we have both Panther Pride events and uh commendation for teachers and future teachers. So, I'll begin um by calling up Dylan Hegedorn, Daisy Lisa, Liv Vrono, and Eva Marquez. So, these four seniors, oh, Eva's not here. Okay, Eva is not here tonight, but these uh three seniors and Eva are uh planning to become educators.
002They've been participating in educators rising uh which this year has been led by Julie Grotofor. And they will um Oh, there's Eva. Come on up. Um they will be signing a pledge to prosper. And the pledge to prosper is a commitment from me and the Greenell schools uh to interview them for an open position which they may apply once they complete their their teaching certification and credentials and if they were to return that they would have a guaranteed interview with us. So um I'm going to let them sign All [Laughter] right, I'm gonna invite Julie to say a few words about the work that's happened this year. I'm actually going to start by recognizing our seniors and what their next steps will be. Um, so we have Dylan who will be attending University of Wisconsin
003Oakclair, majoring in biology education and psychology. And up on the screen, he shared that his favorite part of Educators Rising was learning more about being an educator. this year. Our next aspiring educator is Daisy Lisa. And Daisy will be attending Wclair, also majoring in social studies education with a minor in political science and government. And she enjoyed hearing from Miss Henzy about her transition into um from an educator into administration this year as a guest speaker. We have Eva Marquez who will be attending WMadison and uh the School of Education majoring in educational policies with a minor in physics. And she um enjoyed the Stevens Point Leadership Summit that Dylan and Eva attended in August. And our final senior is Liv Vrono. Liv will be attending the College of Charleston majoring in elementary education and
004her favorite part was uh listening to the teachers come in and tell about their career paths and their journey into education. So congratulations to our seniors and we look forward to your future careers in education. Tonight you have the pledge to prosper and then you also have graduation cords identifying you as a member of Educators Rising. And then parents after I'm done you can take pictures too. And then you want to come up close so you can The table's not [Laughter] There we go. This is great. Thank you. [Applause] All right. Thank you, seniors. You have to stand up and have a take your stuff with you. And then next I would like to invite Ella and Leah to the podium to share with us um just a little bit about Educators Rising and some
005of the events um that we did this year as a chapter. You guys can start by introducing yourselves and then I'll flip through the slides for you. Okay. Hi, I'm Ella Pot. I'm Leah Roberts. Okay. So, our service project we did this year was the um book drive with the Next Door Foundation. So, we um had students donate books to donate to the Next Door Foundation. So, we filled over 10 containers of books and we collected a total number of 1,607 books. Okay. So, um we had some guest speakers come in. This was the college panel meeting and future educators came in that were previous Ed Rising members and they just talked about their experience in educators rising and how it made them want to be an educator and what it's like in college becoming
006an educator. Okay. And then also the Mosquo Future Teacher Summit. So this is um when we went to Mosquo High School and we talked with other students that want to be educators and talked with educators at Mosquo High School and also broke off into leadership groups and learned like tactics about becoming an educator and how to deal with like connecting with students and stuff like that. We also went to the UWM future educator summit where we went to W Milwaukee and learned more about becoming an educator and also breakout sessions and then the state conference at W Stevens Point we attended and three of us competed. Yeah, there were also breakout sessions at that and that's actually a nice transition to the next step. Um, thank you ladies. Thanks for your sharing of our experiences.
007And next, we would like to recognize two of our students that competed at the state conference and then qualified to compete at nationals, which will be held on in Orlando. So, Greenell Educators Rising traveled to the state conference at W Stevens Point on March 7th. In their first time competing at the state level, Maline Madson and Leah Roberts were national qualifiers in the area of children's literature. Maddie and Leah wrote and illustrated a children's book and presented it to a panel of judges, earning a top score in the state of Wisconsin. They qualified to compete at nationals and will be traveling to Orlando, Florida in June for the national competition. Both Maddie and Leah have been selected to serve as delegates for the state of Wisconsin while at nationals and we'll have the opportunity to
008provide feedback and vote on future actions of the organization. Congratulations to these future teachers and we have a certificate of common You want to share your book? Come on over. No read. You don't have to read. Tell us a little bit about what it was and why you wrote about that. Uh, it's called Go Away Ducky. Sorry. It's called Go Away Ducky and it's about a girl who learns to like forgive her friends. Yeah. And so at the state competition they um read and presented their book and to a panel of judges and then received scores and feedback on the book that they presented. [Applause] Good luck. [Applause] All right. And our final commendation for the evening is Mr. John Kaziki who was selected as the NCWIT aspirations in computer computing educator award. So I'm
009going to invite Mr. Kaziki and is Mr. Lotus joining you or is he just going to watch in the audience? Okay, come on up and tell us a little bit about the program and the award. All right. So the national women's in technology uh group they are looking towards uh just improving representation in uh technology fields and um part of this award comes from just expanding exposure and accessibility to those types of courses. So, I don't in like my third year here at Greenale kind of realized we didn't have any computer science class at the high school and took an initiative to to get that going and we've increased our representation from 5% of our young ladies to 15%. So, we're halfway to our goal of matching uh the national average of 31%. So, we
010got some way to go. Uh, and I think our our next steps are just to get down the elementary school and try to get those motivations started early and exposure so that they they realize that they could take that path from a younger age. Congratulations, Sean. That is quite a recognition. [Applause] I appreciate I appreciate uh John Kaziki and the work that he did to get us launched in terms of computer science. He um rallied a group and he Zach Gger and Emily Walsh at the middle school came to me and said we need this and the three of them worked together to get licensed and start a program. So I truly appreciate them and really making impact. Thank you. Um you're okay Rob. Y I just wanted to um say to the educators rising
011students that you have picked the most um wonderful profession to consider. I'm in my 35th year as a teacher. I'm a graduate of Greenale and we did not have this program back in the day when we graduated. Um, but I really encourage you to take up your opportunities to come back uh to Greenale and give back to this community. But I just want to thank you all for continuing because we really need good people going into the field of education. So, I just want to wish all of you the best. [Applause] All right, moving on to communications. I only have two communications this week. Uh, this week is teacher appreciation week and in Greenell schools, we believe all staff have a role to play in teaching and learning. So, we celebrate all employees for staff
012appreciation week. District office administrators will be delivering treats to staff this week, courtesy of the board of education, and thank you to Cindy Kasmarik and her team for preparing the treats. Each building is also planning additional acts of gratitude for their staff. And this Saturday, May 10th, uh Tyson McRavens, a Boy Scout, will be leading an Eagle Scout project for cleaning the Canterbury Woods. Uh it will be running from 8:00 a.m. till noon. And anyone who is interested in volunteering, he would certainly love the help in his project to clean Canterbury Woods. And there'll be some additional new signage and uh potentially a little library that will be going up at the edge of Dixon Forest in Canterbury Woods. All right, thank you for that. Uh moving on to student updates. Sure. So, first off,
013the GHS Student Council Wellness Committee held a blood drive on Wednesday, April 30th, just this past week. And then Sources of Strength begun their hope drive in which students can donate money, clothes, diapers, and other utilities from now until Friday, which is going to be one of our final fundraisers of the year. Uh, and for my updates, AP tests have started starting today and going through the next two weeks. Students will be taking exams in the IMC and ballet room in order to have an opportunity to gain college credit in high school. Robotics has their end of season banquet on Thursday, May 8th, and DECA has their end of year banquet on May 23rd. Finally, a student equity team has promotions to spread awareness for AsianAmerican Pacific Islander Month. Thank you. All right. Thank you,
014gentlemen. Uh moving on to comments from visitors. All right, I'm not seeing any. So we will move on to uh approving the meeting minutes from last meeting, April 28th. I move approval of the meeting minutes from April 28th as outlined in agenda item 1.1. I second. All right, we have a motion and a second. Is there any comments or concerns before we do a roll call? No. All right, we'll looking for a roll call. Yes. Yes. Yes. Um, yes. Motion passes. Uh, moving on to new business. We need to approve uh personnel. I move the approval of the teacher resignation and teacher appointments as presented. Agenda item 3.1 A and B. I'll second. All right. We have a motion, a second. If there's no uh comments or questions, we'll do a roll call. Yes. Yes.
015Yes. And I'm Yes. Motion passes. Uh moving on. Uh approving the 2025 2026 lunch prices. This is a report that you saw at the last board meeting and we brought back the recommendation to increase uh lunch prices between 20 and 25 cents depending on the school level. that included increasing breakfast prices by 25 cents. We did review all of the alle cart items. So DPI has a tool for calculating that and um we allocated additional uh increases for next year to help with closing the deficit. So you'll see in the background items that had an impact um on that deficit number of close to $10,000 over the course of the year. And then um Cindy Casmar and I will need to continue to work to close that deficit even further so that we can get
016back on a path that's sustainable for the long term. Um but for next year, we do have fund balance reserves that we can use as we get ourselves reset to a budget that's balanced. Right. Thank you, Jonathan. So the um shortfall of around 30,000 that incre includes the increases from the um alocart that's after Yes. Okay. Yep. It would be higher without that. Looking for a motion. I'll make a motion to approve the lunch prices as outlined in agenda item for the 202526 lunch prices as outlined in agenda 3.2. I second. All right, we have a motion a second. Yes. Oh, Kathy had a question. Sorry, real quick. I just want to thank Jonathan and Cindy. She's not here, but thank you for your hard work in this area. This is always um something that
017we got to focus on and we've done really well over the years. not increasing prices. Um, but obviously we we have to make sure we're paying our bills, too. So, I just want to thank you for the work and and all the presentation that you did last week. Thank you. All right. Yes. Yes. Yes. And I'm yes. Motion passes. Uh, finally, we are moving on to approving the CISA1 agreement. Uh, the CISA1 agreement is an annual agreement. This is why there hasn't been a report. its annual um contract. CISA stands for Cooperative Educational Service Agency and there are 12 CISAs in the state of Wisconsin. As a member district, we pay a membership fee of $1,800 and then there are additional services that we access as an organization. Um two items on there are direct
018student services. So, Project Success Parkway and Educational Aiologist are services provided directly to students through CISA because it would be cost prohibitive for us to hire our own person. Uh, so I recommend that you approve the CISA 1 agreement for the 2526 school year. Looking for a motion. I'll make a motion to approve the CISA 1 agreement as outlined in agenda item 3.3. I second. All right. If no one has any questions, we'll do a roll call. Yes. Yes. Yes. And I'm yes. Motion passes. Uh moving on to information. Uh the uh Renaissance contract renewal. So this is a new item. Um and it is being brought forward in alignment with the purchasing policy because the total contract amount will be over $100,000. Just barely, but over $100,000. Um so this is being brought forward.
019We have subscribed to both services in the past uh se couple of years, the past two years, three years. Uh and as they've become as we've implemented them and are using them consistently, it would be cost effective for us to sign a multi-year contract. We did not do that in the first or second year because we were still figuring it out. So, I'm going to let um Maggie share a little bit more about what these tools are used for and why we continue to include them in our purchases annually. So, currently we're using FastBridge uh K4 through 10th grade um as our universal screener to see um how our students are doing and making sure that no students are falling through the cracks in reading and math. Um and that is really important. And then
020the second um item is our edge climber which is our visualization data visualization which I think we've um when we adopted it I did come to the board and we did a presentation around how we're able to um look at data share data with um PLC's for grade level share data walls for classes also be able to progress monitor students progress on interventions and um currently we have full implementation at all five schools. So it'd be really important for us to have this renewal. Um and when we were one of the first adopters of um Edge of Climber, it was and the prices have keep going up. So, we really want to make sure that we're getting that three-year um price because it will be as we're seeing there's five to 10% increases every year.
021So, us being able to get that three-year um locked in is important and why this is coming across the board table. So, we are not asking for approval tonight. This will be brought back for approval at the May 19th meeting uh which Maggie will be the administrator representing um me because I will not be here. So, this will be brought back at the next meeting and any questions that the board has, we'll be happy to provide some feedback or get information for you before that vote is taken. Just one question, Megie. um with this will this include if there are any updates to the um the resources and so forth I'm assuming that because we'll be that year will be you know yeah the all the um all the updates are included anything that they
022add uh for instance they are adding um things to help us with act 20 the reading bill um and all that's included it's just to make sure that um we are locked in for a price and are they a Wisconsinbased company. Um, no, they're through Renaissance, which is a national company. They It was Edge Climber started with a Wisconsin based company and that was bought by Renaissance. That's what I thought of. Yeah. Thank you. Yes. Educ is the tool that we are using to as our dashboard to monitor our progress on district priority one. You have two goals in that space and district priority 2. So that's the tool that's helping us to visualize um the dashboard so that we can monitor throughout the year. So you're using this for like professional development and things
023like that. Like there are teachers that are using it daily and then um there are teachers that are use like teacher groups that use it weekly and then there's um more of that leadership model that people are using it at professional development. So it's used at every different level like you can just see your classes data or you can see your whole grades or you can see a whole schools. So, it's really helps us be able to um pinpoint where we need to move instructionally or where we need to move um for that specific student. Thank you. And Brian, you look like you had a question, too. Yeah, I was looking at the quote that they gave for the contracting and I know that we talked about the declining total enrollment and I saw that
024it's 2550 for the software licenses. Is that something that's going to change or is that just the rate and that's a set ma minimum that we have for the licenses or is that something that is like say we only have 2400 that we need. Um so it wasn't 2700 so we already tried to rightsize it and um Jonathan and I looked at enrollment numbers because it also includes um uh time for learning as well are part of this. So that's why it's a little bit higher. And then would this carry over with the global academy or would that be separate if they were to do something? It depends on enrollment numbers. If we need to increase that's something that we can do and talk to the um our our representative from um Edge of Climber
025and see what that would look like because that would make sense to do that. The Greenell Global Academy for the 2526 school year will be a program of Greenell schools that will evolve into an independent charter. Um the board has met and so if there are things that are required of Greenell students which are sixth through 10th graders would be included uh they would be included but that it's a small count. I'm expecting less than 15. Now quick question. Um, it says here that the 3% increase for years one and two, if we didn't do it, it's a 6% increase. If for year four, if we were to renew the contract like year four or five, six, would that be the 3% increase, would they give us that or would it jump 6% after this
026contract? Jonathan and I work really hard to negotiate all those things. It depends on the vendor. That's a good question. and they're not offering that, but we can go back to the vendor and try and twist a little bit further to see if they'll be willing to lock further out. This is all this is all they were willing to offer. There was a separate quote that they offered that required cash upfront, which is something from cash flow purposes. It wasn't beneficial to us. There wasn't enough savings in doing that. So, this allows us to pay in a cash basis annually for the subscription. Um, but they at this point they've only offered a three-year lock. Um, but we'll go back we'll go back to them with that question and see if they'll go further for
027the next u meeting. Uh, there's sometimes a balancing act of like what's the right number of years in case something does change if we're contractually locked because then we don't have options. So, that's a balancing act. But if we want to be able to see that as a an option, maybe that can be done without um without us committing to year four and five to negotiate that out in the contract. We can try. I was wondering. No, that's a great question. And to Jonathan's point, there are um within next three years there might be a different system that has different capabilities that we'd want to look into. So we don't want to like lock in um six years or do something like that. Yeah. And I wouldn't say, you know, lock in another 3 years
028after that, but yeah, kind of, you know, at the good guy price like we're coming back. Yeah, you can come and join the negotiations. I'm just kidding. I can try. We got We got it. Yeah, I'll let I'll let the professionals handle. Yeah, thank you. Uh Kathy has a question. One last thing. Um just in terms of since there's a lot of student data that's in this system um do they make guarantees about uh student safety, security and so forth? Yeah, that's a great question. That is something that um regardless of what system we adopt um we work with Ryan Jonas around um privacy and data security that there are several applications that we no longer use because of that. Um, so when we were in the wild west of uh, COVID and we were
029trying all these different apps and just trying to make it work. Um, we cleared out a lot of those apps because they didn't have the security and data privacy that we needed. And now we are really before we um, bring anything to this table, it has been fully vetted by uh, the tech team and then also the security and uh, privacy um, through Drian Jonas and he does a really nice job with that. Yeah, there's two aspects to it. A signature for a confidentiality signature that they'll comply with SIPA and then a check on who they share their data with and who has access and or not who had who some of the security loopholes within the system so that there's not a cyber incident where they can hack in through that system. One of
030the systems where that is an issue is a very popular teacher um system that they have asked repeatedly to bring back and we say sorry they will not comply with our student privacy and data protections. So we can't do that but I think you I've made some people very mad. Yeah. You've been asked a couple of times about that and I've actually been asked by students about one but we have to follow our procedures and policies for the protection of our data. Thank you. Any other questions? All right. Thank you, guys. Moving on to uh legislative update. Uh I believe Kathy I didn't realize I had to ask him today. I said I think I'm in charge of that now. So um there's not too much. Um Tasha covered pretty much everything last week. Um
031just going to mention uh did you touch on this uh about the Senate committee's education bills? I think you did touch on those, right? um the five bills impacting public education. So, I don't think we need to touch on that. And then um Governor Ivers did join the multi-state lawsuit seeking to prevent USDE from withholding federal funds based off of the latest Title Six compliance requests. Um and again, I think did you touch? Yeah. So, you touched on that. So, we're good. We're good. All right. Thank you. Uh moving on to board committee updates. Greenell Global Academy board met last week. They elected officers. Um Laura Msco is the president. Uh Aaron Dummer is the vice president and Joe Cpido is the clerk treasurer of the Greenell Global Academy board. Uh the board has established
032mission and vision that they'll be voting on at the next meeting. They're working on their beliefs and there is a visit scheduled to Elhorn uh for their options uh academy which is a virtual charter that is run out of their district that has some in-person uh supports as well. So we're looking to learn more about that. All right. Thank you. Anyone else? No. All right. We will move on to board professional development. Well, on Friday, we had uh we had a workshop with Dr. Lee Pritzell where we addressed uh communication with the community uh and uh working with our community members. This week, Friday, three board members. Are you going to Tasha to the schoolboard association of excellence summit? Um no. No. Okay. So, two board members and I are going to the summit and
033Mr. Mitchell will be presenting um one of the breakout sessions around school finance. So uh that will be an upcoming professional development experience. Where is that being held? Milwaukee Marriott West. Okay. Who's going? Uh Christina. Go ahead. Okay. All right. If no one has anything else to share, we will move on to the board calendar. Uh so this week as I mentioned the schoolboard association of excellence is holding their schoolboard summit um and two of our board members will be there. On Saturday there may be a quorum of the board present to volunteer as part of the Eagle Scout project to clean Canterbury Woods in Dixon Forest. There may not be but no board business will be discussed. And uh there are a number of concerts coming up. The spring concerts are next week. Highland
034View, Canterbury, and uh College Park have spring concerts on the 13th, 14th, and 15th. And the Highland View PTO meeting is Monday, um the 12th. Oh, there's the art gallery night at the middle school on the 14th from 5 to 6:30. Thank you. I see that on here, too. Um but I also have the board finance committee, so that's why I did not. And then the um outdoor education will be um Monday and Tuesday the 12th and 13th. So 7th grade last year returned to outdoor education. So they are back and the seventh graders will again travel this year. The majority of students I believe over 80% just under 90% are traveling uh for the experience. And is that in Lake Geneva still? It is in Lake Geneva. And then there is a board finance
035committee on the 14th in addition to art gallery night. That should be it. All right. Thank you. Uh moving on to additional comments from visitors. Bless you. No one. All right. Then we will adjourn and uh meet back at uh 7 p.m. on May 19th.