001all right you guys you ready you ready all right yeah all right the uh time is now 7 o'clock and we'll call this meeting to order uh roll call will show that uh we have one student board member uh Nick is excused and all five board members are here uh has this meeting been posted yes it has all right we'll stand for the Pledge of Allegiance United States America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under indivisible with liy and Justice all right we'll start off the meeting tonight with commendations for state qualifiers yay all right so we have a number of state qualifiers uh tonight our we'll begin with our ghs theater uh qualifications uh production of six great news from the Jerry Awards Jerry awards are uh National um a
002award ceremony for theater and ghs theater was nominated for 18 Jerry awards for a production of six teen Edition all six queens were nominated for outstanding lead performer and as an entire production were we were nominated for outstanding musical the winners will be announced on May 10th 2025 and the Jerry awards are held on Sunday June 88th at the Overture Center in Madison so congratulations to the Queens who qualified Annie bro Liv vetrano have to Claire Vora Lucy mermal Fiona Glorioso and are they here tonight and Nora Griffin are they over here all right come on up ladies they have a events going on across theall we have one ring attend is steal a greenes okay yep sure just thank you we're really uh we're really grateful to the Jerry awards for nominating us um
003it's quite an honor to be nominated for outstanding musical uh last time uh last year there were 19 winners so we do hope um that we're worthy of that but they really worked very hard and to have all six lead performers nominated um I certainly expected it but it's also kind of awesome that they did that so congratulations ladies and thank you for having us here [Applause] [Music] tonight keeps going to sleep on me all right my password's hard okay uh our next group of state qualifiers are Deca there were 11 state qualifiers and six National qualifiers this year we had 11 state qualifiers at Deca state in Lake Geneva they included Delaney edgert Ava Sula Jack grunky Noah Thompson Leo Gamboa Ella P Tess Zia uh Zade cardena Peter Gman Casey lamb and Sophia
004Lis ltis uh then we were honored to find out that we have six students from that group who are now National qualifiers and will be competing in Orlando Florida in late April uh congratulations and good luck to Delan Ava Jack Noah Leo and Ella who will be going to [Applause] Nationals okay who do I have here e spe [Applause] okay here we go all right uh the next group that we're recognizing is Cheer and pep band um the cheer and pep band traveled back to Orlando Florida to defend their 2024 National Championship the duo left it all on the mat once again this season however they fell short by 6500 of point and finished the year as National Champion runnerup which is no small feat and after returning from Florida greenell cheer went on to
005qualify for the wacpc state championship the cheer team W were crowned the traditional cheer superlarge state champions with the highest overall score among all cheer categories they also placed third in the game day Division and congratulations once again to a great season for both the groups and I think that that traditional placing has been a long time since we've been at the top of that so that's awesome five years all right [Applause] congratulations e I'll [Applause] no I do not [Music] all right our next state qualifier was an individual on the boys bowling team congratulations to Jack Dand on his State qualification in boys bowling this winter after an impressive regular season Jack placed in the top 10% of Bowlers to qualify for the for the bcaw state championships as an individual he got the
006opportunity to represent Greendale at Rolling Thunder Lanes in Nina Wisconsin last week weekend great job Jack is he here do I see them no all right we'll have to get that to Jack I don't see Becky either so I don't think they're here congratulations Jack and then our final is boy swim we had a state qualifier congratulations to boy swimmer Noah Stanford who was part of the state qualifying 200 free relay on the greenell Green field Pas the 11th Co-op swim team these swimmers were also were the 200 free relay Conference champions this season they competed in the waa state championship in waaw earlier this winter and congratulations on a great season come on up Noah when I looked at it at first I was like where's the rest of the relay team if they
007went to other schools [Applause] and that completes all of our commendations this evening yeah so I would recommend that the board um reorder the agenda to take the uh um Panther Pride immediately following the financial reports uh because of some uh what's the word I'm looking for well just because they'll work well together so if we if the board can reorder the agenda then I'll be happy to do Communications all right do we have a motion to move uh Panther Pride uh following the financial reports I'll move approval of the agenda being reordered to put Panther Pride after the financial reports a second all right we have a motion a second do a roll call yes yes yes yes yes motion passes all right moving on to Communications do we have anyone in the audience
008that would like to speak first oh yeah I'm sorry no problem uh let's start with a sincere thank you to all of the volunteers who made it possible to welcome over 200 senior citizens to senior night at the theater last week Thursday I know a number of board members were among the volunteers and the event began almost a decade ago and offers senior citizens a lowcost dinner and a show to see the spring musical thank you also to the greenal Education Foundation for sponsoring the additional costs for the rights to perform the show it was a great experience for all uh last week Wednesday I attended WSB day at the capital with Jonathan Rob and Tasha we were able to hear from leaders in the assembly and the Senate on the current realities in our
009state as it relates to the banian budget and we were able to meet with our state senator our state senate representative and speak with our assembly representative we will discuss in Greater detail when we review professional development on the agenda uh this Wednesday the greenell global governance board will hold its first meeting at 4:30 p.m. in the district office the board is looking forward to advancing our efforts to open the proposed charter school spring break for greenell schools is the week of March 24th students will return on Monday March 31st and finally thank you to the whitel park Rotary Club and Nolan accounting for Their donation of $ 69166 to cover the cost of bus transportation for the Educators Rising group's trip to State and that concludes my communications all right thank you now moving
010on to comment some questions from visitors do we have anyone that would like to update first boy I'm off today student updates all right uh my updates are quick um robotics is in the final stage of preparation for competition getting ready for their first Regional competition in Lacrosse Juniors have completed their act tests getting the results in approximately four to seven weeks and the student Equity team has organized materials for women's history month and our organizing materials for Asian and Pacific Islander heritage month thank you thank you all right now you're really now the moment everyone's been waiting for comments and questions from visitors anyone like to address the board all right that'll be a no so moving on to the first action item of the evening we need to approve meeting minutes from the
011last meeting March 3rd uh does anyone have any questions or comments regarding the minutes I'm not seeing any we are looking for a motion I move approval of the March 3rd 2025 regular board meeting minutes as presented in agenda item 1.1 I'll second all right we have a motion of second do a roll call yes yes yes yes I am yes motion passes uh moving on to financial reports Jonathan so included in your packet is financial report for the month of February we had a successful first meeting of the new board board finance committee last week Wednesday and so this has been reviewed by that team um and they did not have any follow-up questions on it um revenues just a couple things to point out we're ahead of what we would expect to date
012in fund 10 the operations fund um that's based off of the implementation of the operational referendum and decrease in that debt defeasance this year so at this point we're slightly ahead in the referendum debt fund you can see that we're now at a little over 100% of expected Revenue so we were conservative with interest revenues for the year knowing that there's some interest rate cuts that have been coming from the FED um but have not been coming as quickly as what was originally anticipated which is good for um interest bearing on that account and so we'll end up a little bit higher than what we projected in the community service fund we're a little bit um below our full year projection for revenues um but we anticipate still receiv revenues for um Bridges child care
013which will make up a lot of that um Gap that Still Remains and then with the Cooperative fund uh just remaining fees for those member districts in the Woodland conference on the expenditure side uh fund 10 operations fund we're at 47.83% so we're a little bit uh past prior year uh in the prior year we had a year-end adjustment to our health insurance so I looked at multiple years prior we should be somewhere in that 47 to 48% range at this point in the year so we still believe we're right on target with where we should be in the operations fund um a couple others there the donations and Gifts fund that has gotten to U budget just based off of numbers of trips and activities that we've had within that fund but that's based
014off of revenues that are coming in to the activity fund um and then the capital projects fund so the board approved a state trust fund loan that's funding a vehicle so we're above 100% budget of that that Capital project fund and we're waiting on final decision from the board commissioner public lands that that we um actually receive that loan and then we'll make a budgetary adjustment for that uh these other areas within the budget um are where we would expect for year to date I'm happy to answer questions that you've got on those if none if none uh there's one more item here so at the bottom of the financial report we included uh best practice document that's been created jointly between the wasbo and wasb organization so that's the school business official state organization
015and Schoolboard State organization work together um knowing that there been some challenges and um with some turnover of board members want to make sure it's clear to boards that they have a resource of understanding what are some key financial practices and benchmarks that District should be meeting each year so we discussed this regionally with school business officials and then I brought that to the board finance committee to discuss we've identified the key best practices that um the organizations are saying to implement these are things that have been implemented within Greendale schools um but for transparency reasons we've got those items linked so if board members or if you have community members that have questions about these in terms of what we're doing in setting a budget utilizing a budget calendar following protocols for having an
016annual meeting having the audit report presented and reviewed before January 31st by the audit team keeping audited financials posted on the website um having monthly reports such as this one that are coming to the board so the board has an idea of where we are year to date and then one of the last ones was keeping track of uh reports that are due to the DPI and when they're um being completed so we updated just a record that shows due dates and when those things were updated in the future I plan to bring this back to that board board finance committee on a yearly basis and to the board just to provide a snapshot in addition to just the ongoing conversations that we have at the board level but also happy to answer questions if
017you have any on that or the monthly financials any Kathy um yes thank you Jonathan and um first of all I think you do an outstanding job with um organizing all of our finances and especially the presentations you do at the annual meeting and everything um you've always been very succinct um in layman's terms I think most people can kind of understand the operations of the district I did have a question about the revenues for special education um it says that we're at 13.5% last year was 15.52 I believe um is that typical for this time of the year special ed revenues are are that low or yeah that's a good question um the biggest source of Revenue to the special education fund is an in fund transfer saying that the general fund is going
018to subsidize special education for the amount that's locally funded right and we've had prior discussions that's about 60% of the revenues and we don't make that transfer until the end of the school year when we know exactly how much is needed and how much is not being funded through um federal and state sources so I would say that it this is typical um we get state aid so we get about 30% State special education Aid based on prior year expenses and that trickles in over multiple months between November and June and so at this point of the year we've only had a portion of those state aid payments and then we've also only seen a portion of reimbursements that have come through our Federal grant funds so this is not atypical and the bulk of
019those funds really don't clear until the month of June within the special education fund and because special ed is mandated we out you said we're covering that through the general fund then until those payments are made correct okay that's an expenditure in the operational fund fund 10 and then a revenue into fund 27 and those amounts will exactly offset okay thank you you yep I do like the layout um I think you've done this last few meetings this way right this yes yeah and yeah um this is really nice to see everything side by side like this so thank you good thanks for the feedback any other questions for Jonathan I'm not seeing any so thanks thank you yep thank you all right so that means that we will have to approve checks and dispersements
020so unless anything anyone has anything to add uh we will be looking for a motion I move the approval of checks and dispersements to the amount of 3,274 48970 as presented in agenda item 2.3 I second all right we have a motion and second looking for a roll call yes yes yes yes and I'm yes motion passes so now we will move on to Panther Pride for the Greendale Middle School I will welcome up Mr Curry who I think is accompanied this evening by a number of people namely Mr Del Ponte Mr Del Pon he does cover a lot of people well and Mrs flater's here too yes all right welcome everybody thank you I am Ray Curry proud principal of Greendale middle school and we're going to talk about Panther pride and um how
021this works out here at the middle school thank you you for combining these with um the short cycle goal hopefully you'll be able to feel on how uh these things tie together so as always ground ourselves in our district Miss mission that all students belong and are empowered to learn grow and engage as part of a global community in our vision we're cultivating excellence in every students at GMS our Why by fostering a culture of care for all students in engaging structured lessons our students will increase engagement in classroom demonstrate Mastery of grade level standards and Clos the achievement Gap so two areas we're going to focus on here culture of care for all and engaging in structured lessons for us Panther Pride means perseverance respect Integrity diligence and empathy um the first six weeks
022of the school year uh we spend a majority of our time going through each one of these um piece by piece uh and talking through our or um our levels on what it means to be a student her persus who's respectful of each other's self and space um Integrity that happens um you know when when adults aren't around who are we as people um and being empathetic towards each other is a big push for us as well so our culture of care for all three main areas that we're looking at sources of strength character strong and panther Pals so our sources of strength wheel there um is an opportunity for students to dig in and do a check-in on where they are um with things and if you need a a source of strength which
023is within the name you can choose one of these and we have the students um digging a little deeper to understand that they do have F uh family support mentors um generosity you have all these areas in your life even though you don't see them right away the meetings for these are set up into three parts there's a fun part uh they come in and have a game and kind of do a community Builder they do some planning and activities they actually run a lot of student le le activities about 60 student leaders that we have as part of this group um and I thank them in a presentation that I did recently for their uh positive impact that they had on our community um doing a Spirit Week um and having a lot of
024fun and and uh coming in and doing announcements and building up um some opportunities for us uh to build community and then the last part is share out so then the students come back and reflect on the wheel on where they are um and when they're feeling stressed and anxious where do they lean on where their where is their source of strength as well character strong character strong is our Universal tier one classroom lessons that happen every Friday uh for approximately 40 minutes so it is uh something that we value heavily it's in our schedule um and we have certain lessons that we're going through um but essentially on the big picture focusing in on sixth grade in belonging seventh grade in well-being and eighth grade with engagement and panther Pals is back we had
025one year where we were a little off because of some scheduling um but it is back and it's an important piece for us and panther Pals is our eighth grade and uh sixth grade mentorship that happens where our eighth graders have an opportunity to um get together with our sixth graders on ACP Friday so about once a month on Fridays um and uh learn how to be a a middle schooler and a positive person for our community they focus it on collaboration goal setting communication and Community Building all within those components um so the cycle of a GMS student in terms of culture of care so you com in at a sixth grader you're being mentored by eighth graders so they're helping you do some positive things in seventh grade they do a lot more
026Service Learning so now it's their opportunity to get out into the community and do some things with the community including uh today they were playing some Bingo for about an hour and a half uh in the village um and then in eighth grade that that Circle starts over again where you you become a leader of the building and start mentoring sixth grade as well so it's full cycle and we kind of have um this system in place that's helping us and panther Pals is a a big part of that our sale goals and short cycle goals so headed into the other side of um from culture care into the academic side of the house um in terms of our short cycle goal our strategic priority we are uh falling under number one provide every student
027access to challenge balanced and Equitable education that Sparks curiosity and engagement and then annual goal of increasing the percentage of students achieving Proficiency in ela and math on standardized assessment and measures so all this is in place right now because it ties directly into what we're doing with our sale goals so sale goal number one a 10% proficiency increase in both Ela and math I saved this on the whole smart gold piece and kind of condensed it a little bit but essentially that's what it is is a 10% increase there student goal number two a 25% decrease and classroom manage or minor events and Defiance disrespect non-compliance and disruption to learning environment so through our uh disaggregation of data last year we found that we had two areas that were kind of high flyers for
028us in the classroom and we are working to decrease those classroom managed behaviors so sale goal one 10% uh proficiency increase in both Ela and math uh we're focused on doing that through structured lessons um so we found um at least I found in some reflections over my first couple years is we were kind of reaching for some highlevel strategies that um were very isolated at times and the structured lessons were a uh helping us to guide our thinking in there so the first 100 days of this year as part of our plan we focus it on learning attention and success criteria what am I learning why am I learning it how do I know I can be successful those are questions that we ask our students often and the teachers know as well to
029talk the students through those um to set their learning up for Success our second 100 days has focused in on scaffolding and differentiation um which sound very similar when you say them they often go together at times where we're teaching our staff uh through professional development and coaching through our um uh instructional support staff uh the difference between the two so scaffolding meaning that we are building let's say stair steps to get to a standard we're not lowering the standard for kids we're building stairs to get them and giving them strategies to get up to that standard and differentiation is each kid is on a step somewhere and what are we doing for each one of those kids individually to help them up to that next Air so that's the biggest difference between the two
030now through some self-reflection as well we found that in our plan do study act we were doing a lot of plan doing plan doing plan doing and then we stepped back and did kind of a study on what was happening we found that um our scaffolding differentiation wasn't at a level that we wanted to be in terms of learning so 90% of our staff was not sustained and systematic in what we're doing so then we paused um and we looked at our third 100 days and said that if we want to get to a sustained systematic level we have to take a step back and focus in on this so our third 100 days which we have just started here for our sale workor is to scale up our learning and implementation of scaffolding differentiation
031so we're going to dig deeper we're going to dig deeper into that um we're going to make sure that our staff not only understand it but that it's implemented and we can see a positive impact that it's having on students so 10% increase are we being successful well here's our midterm results um in sixth grade ELA we are up 16.6% uh proficiency these are proficiency scores in seventh grade we're up 11.9% in ela and in 8th grade we're at 5.5% increase at this point uh and in math all three levels uh we are above that 10% Mark of uh increase in proficiency so sixth grade 11.7 7th grade 13.6% increase and 8th grade 11.3% increase what we're doing is working it's working now I understand it's a midpoint and I don't want to get overly
032excited and we talked a lot about not having a spring slip in what we're doing but I'm overly excited right like we're doing the right things we're we're uh heading in the right direction in what we're doing we get we can get excited we can be excited all right so sale goal number two um was 25% decrease in classroom managed minor uh Defiance disrespect non-compliance and disruption and learning environment um we're doing monthly rings and refor of uh expectations professional development is happening on a consistent basis with uh and coaching with Mr Del pante uh practicing scenarios we're doing a lot more of that at the middle school with the with the staff so we put them in scenarios what would you do how would you approach this situation um what does this look like
033on the back end uh whether you pass that on classroom manage office manager so we're practicing those as well and empowering staff not only make the right decision but to own their space and be a positive proactive person in their space spring reset I did a a spring reset with all students so um over a three-day span um in within two weeks uh each one of the students heard from me directly um and things that we talked about was building expectations and intent versus impact uh I meant to tell a joke but my impact was I harmed somebody with that joke um so we talked about the difference between those things and what it looked like and um I did eighth grade all in one day seventh grade a few days later and sixth grade
034the following week so everybody heard directly from me on what those expectations are in spaces and intent versus impact um was a lot of learning that happened and then we have our PBIS group uh who H who works on the positive and proactive approach uh we have an event this Friday uh with our PBIS uh team that we are um marching ourselves a class getting the class on time um and the top two teams uh get to play vocer ball um German voer ball German dodgeball uh versus the staff uh for those dodgeball I know you think of a million ball voer balls there's one ball there's one ball so it's very controlled um and we have a lot of fun with that but uh we are encouraging students to get to class get there
035on time um and it's working as as well like um we are all above 98% right now of being on time uh within the last two weeks um and uh and they have a competition attached to it so we'll have some fun on Friday with that um so again that's goal that goal number two is it working so overall our minors are decreased by 18.7% that's overall but then our two areas that we're focusing in on um are Defiance disrespected non-compliance uh we have decreased those referrals by 32% to this point in the year and disruption of learning environment is 8% so those two are different in that um you know Defiance disrespect non-compliance can be very angry at times can be very standoffish a disruptive learn environment could be funny right like somebody could
036be telling a joke and trying to disrupt the environment by doing that so um overall by average we are uh with those two we're at about a 20% de just over a 20% decrease at this point with still a few months to go to reach our 25% goal on where we're at with that all right that was the quick version of the State of the Union here at GMS um but thank you again uh so hopefully you felt there that that what we were doing for our short cycle goal in terms of um Ela and math uh tied directly to our our first goal our first sale goal that we have our student learning goal of 10% proficiency increase and um Entin everything together feels great It Feels Right feels like we're moving in the
037right direction um and I think our data showing that as well any questions any questions um I just had a question on the 8th grade ELA since your your goal is 10% and it's a 5.5% then after that it's a something about um successfully identified 122 students for tier 2 and three is that like throughout the whole school yes okay yes that is a schoolwide number 122 eth graders would be a lot yeah that's why and Tasha I just want to that 5% is they're halfway there y everyone else is is really overperforming which we want to celebrate so there you go so just to clarify we've been hearing a lot lately about um reading proficiency levels across the state and what the standards are across the state so just to clarify this is not
038the number of sixth graders who are proficient at Ela correct correct this is the increase over okay absolutely not that what we be crying in the streets we are celebrating this is the increase the increase just want to make that clear for no thank you thank you no i' I would be on the floor cry right thank you I can give you those numbers if you'd like them I can do it if you have them I do have them yeah I mean I know that they're great but for anybody listening just so we know so for ELA specifically in eth grade at the beginning of the year on their um common lit which is the curriculum their beginning of year assessment they were 48% proficient now 53.5% proficient 7th grade was at 33.4% now 45.3%
039and sixth grade was at 40.4 now 57% proficient and math for sixth grade was at 43.4 they're at 55.1 uh 7th grade 43.6 and they're at 57.2 and 8th grade 46.7 is now at 58 and algebra students are at 81 wow can you so we we're giving percent proficiencies um what tool are you using to assess and measure so common lit is the one for ELA they have um three benchmarks that they take and uh math has three benchmarks as well um those are a little more made um we don't have that uh directly in um in our curriculum but uh it is something that we are working on standards aligned it is standards aligned and and they've taken a lot of time to take the summatives and from the curriculum and add it into
040um a place where they can easily access how kids are doing on the standard so that's why how we kind of moved it into that um and we've and I'm Cur math we don't have the correlation yet to those benchmarks of how they will do on forward but on um common lit we know that um how they common lit is more rigorous than the forward exam so we tend to um outperform on forward about 10 percentage points 10 to 15 over what we are in common lit so that's I love having more rigorous um practicing for our kids so when they take the forward they're like this is easy peasy because we have learned how to do hard things so thank you Ray um the middle school has always held a special spot in my
041heart uh back in the day it was intermediate school now it's 6 7th and eth you talked about the panther Pals the sixth and eighth grade relationship um as someone who currently teaches seventh grade and understands very uh closely how that is such an it can be an awkward age and the kids um kind of can be on an island at that age because they're kind of in between would there ever be any thought to doing Panther Pals with the fifth graders at canterburry and the seventh graders at um GMS and the reason I asked that I used to when I taught there I did used to invite kids in from Canterbury I know it wouldn't include all of the all three of the elementary schools but I think it would potentially give a a
042sense of responsibility and Leadership to the seventh graders so it's just something I thought of as you were saying that um I'm sure the eth and sixth graders enjoyed their experiences but that seventh grade group could could probably use that as well yeah and their their mentorship looks a little bit different um the lower seventh grade um is partners with uh canterberry uh students for first and second grade okay and then um upper seventh grade uh teams up with College Park they they have their first and second graders and then they have a bus that comes over and oh that's awesome we do that I I think there's a lot to be said about those opportunities um you know that's something you know we're talking about the measurement with the ELA and math but there's
043also something to be said about the social emotional experiences that the kids are getting so I I just always love to hear from you you're always so passionate about the school and I just want to thank you for your presentation you did talk about referrals as well um just a quick question I had about that you do track I'm I'm assuming there's um some students that are multiple times getting those referrals so when we talk about percentages you we're not necessarily talking that all the students are getting these referrals but sometimes a small fraction correct correct so there can be um there can be anywhere around 10% of the population or less that may have multiple referrals that are changing that number slightly um but yeah when I talk about 32% decrease it's not 32%
044of the student body necessarily it's the 32% of referrals written for this certain Behavior okay um so there are students that um kind of carry the weight on that at times and uh we dig a Little Deeper on that work with our people service team and kind of uh build a caring circle around them and try to help them out great thank you very much any other questions all right I'm not seeing any thank you all right thank you all right uh moving on to the second trimester scorecard up so you heard U Mr Curry's second trimester uh and the other four schools have reports in there happy to take any questions um Maggie and Tracy are here and they've been working with the principles on these goals okay I actually had some questions for
045canbury when I was looking at their uh Ela and math Cycles like one versus two looks like there's especially for math a lot of them decreased am I reading this right yes that's accurate the biggest decrease that we saw in at canabar we saw a district wide was from third grade um the first cycle to the second and part of that was because of the first cyle really focusing on reading foundational skills and then when they go to the second cycle they're really focusing more on the standards and using those um foundational skills so we saw a dip um districtwide canab Bears was a little um bigger but we're working through that with the teachers um and then with math looking at some of those um dips they're pretty they're staying pretty consistent they're like
046between standard deviations most of them they're not huge drops in um math levels um except for in fifth grade and we're also working with that team to see what's going on um addressing um using backwards design to say what are the kids um what do we need the kids to know and how can we Infuse that in our um daily lessons do we need to affect Universal instruction or do we um or do we need a pull certain groups to make sure kids are getting caught up and then what what are we benchmarking against for each of those so um the ELA um these are assessments that these are the end of unit assessments for Bridges and then the mid there's a similar to Middle School um ccla has a beginning of the year assessment
047a mid-year assessment and end of the year and then um similar to um not similar to middle school math we're just looking at their most current unit assessment okay so it's not all of the standards where with CK with Ela it is so you're using like the fast Bridge assessments we are not we are using standards um driven um assessments um the fast bridge is is a universal screener to make sure no kids are falling through the cracks um and that's where we're looking to see um which kids do we need to maybe pull for intervention or do something like that or um that might need some extra help in a win s um time but this is really for us to see how are our kids doing proficient um on proficiency so math there's
048the math cycle one and cycle two are measuring different standards 100% yes uh Ela is measur in the same standard with the exception of third grade when they switch from foundational skills to comprehension skills that is correct any other questions I'm not seeing any thanks thank you all right moving on to Tasha's legislative update okay here um there's there's a lot been happening um the assembly um has some laws that they're proposing um one would require districts to report information related to Native pupils uh within their District um the another one is to require schools to designate Athletics by biological sex at Birth and amend as could be such as a co-ed option um there's also one um regarding policies surrounding legal name changes and pronoun usage the Senate um they're having some public hearings
049um one public hearing is regarding the Restriction of the ability of the DPI to change cut scores on state assessments as well as District scorecards um another one is to require boards to adopt a policy to let's see restrict the um device usage during instructional time um another um like tidbit of information we talked about this um at our day at the capital as far as like school funding um there's lots of moving pieces um but Mark head law school did us a poll and as far as um what people in general are willing to um spend on and there was 70% 76% favorability um for special ed funding um and so the favorability was across all party groups um % were Republicans 72 The Independents and 97 Democrats so that is something that we
050worked at or talked to our legisla people um with when we were at Madison this past week that's it all right thank you uh moving on to board committee updates um I want to put you on the spot but I know we had the first finance committee want to dive into that yeah so we had the first board Finance last Wednesday um went over the structure of the committee and just highlighting those goals um reemphasizing that that's an advisory role but it's really important that we have um broad background and knowledge base of those members so that we get um feedback on how well we're communicating financial information um but that committee is already doing a good job in the conversations that we did have around um 84 Street and student fees good conversation about
051like what information's going to be important for the board to know as a whole to make a decision and kind of understanding when things are ready to come forward versus when things may need that additional research so we were able to do that effectively and talk about the roles and I think there for some of those members just a learning curve of understanding all the financial information that we're reviewing so we're trying to provide them you know a lot of info and opportunities to ask questions so overall I think it's going really well all right thank you uh did you want to add anything with that I would say just the one thing that we did add um is I think it was a pretty diverse group and to have like a good discussion but
052just kind of I took away that I'm kind of encouraged because the group seems to be thinking of like let's look at all avenues for what we're doing financially um and just making sure that we have a plan to you know we are really using the money to the best of our ability and you know Jonathan did a great job putting it you know putting a lot of the proposals together but kind of keeping on track knowing what um like with the state budget and everything that just funding being flux that I think it seemed everybody's kind of on a good mindset to have a discussion on what we could do and Jonathan mentioned the 84th inrange they asked some really good questions and just kind of further review on that and then just looking
053forward to our next meeting April 23rd anyone else have any committee updates all right thank you uh moving on to board professional development yeah so um as I mentioned uh in Communications Jonathan Rob Tasha and I went to the WB uh dayth Capital the morning was spent with um some training and some information so the first thing that they shared was what the Govern we had information on the governor's proposed budget uh we also o had a panel discussion with uh two members of the Senate and two members of the assembly um from the education committee from The Joint finance committee there was kind of a smattering of experience there was one of the um Representatives is actually in his first term which is unusual that they would come talk but he's the former superintendent
054in Shaban so they thought he was knowledgeable so so he came in and spoke and they talked about um positions on the budget uh what they were expecting and timelines for negotiating they're expecting a late uh budget because they're waiting for a court decision around the veto from the last bium before they're really ready as a collective group U both sides were saying that we need that information before we will be able to lay down some um negotiations so that is unfortunate because it seems like we're not going to have a speedy budget this time it'll be something that takes takes a little bit of time and then um the uh Finance director is that who it was that talked to us about I's proposed budget yeah the state uh budget director the state budget
055director um walked through the entire Governor's proposal um and uh took a look at it and then WB uh talked about what areas they expected the legislature to be considering and the two main areas were going to be around uh special education reimbursements and um Revenue limits so that was the areas that they were looking at there was from all four members that uh were on the panel discussion as Tasha said that there's the market poll uh is accurate and the legislators themselves were definitely looking at special education reimbursement as an area what we do know is that there's uh projected one .85 billion in additional Revenue anticipated over the next bium and so that is what they're looking to determine how to allocate that additional tax revenue um and then we went in and
056met with our Senator weard uh and our assembly person we did not see that day the other districts um Greenfield and whitel were able to make it down we stayed with van weard because he was uh running long and we stayed there while the other districts went down but we spent some time uh talking with him and really focusing in on what does that special education reimbursement look like and um there was conversation about what money was potentially available for Education they were uh torn between where some of that money goes between health care and education um speaking to their Medicaid responsibilities taking up a a significant amount of that 1.85 billion in increased revenues so I don't know if if you guys have anything else to share No I just felt like the numbers
057they were giving were changing because I I feel that someone mentioned like 77 million would be available so I'm not sure we the other to get to that 1 Point what8 billion so I think we're going to kind of have to see where things fall yeah um with this one being our second one going um or at least you and me um compared to the two years ago I thought this one was more organized nied uh they had us grouped by like Greenfield uh whitel uh or Franklin yeah at lunch so you kind of talk to people around you um they did more coaching in the first half kind of giving people talking points um you probably remember two years ago everybody was just had 10 things to say and I don't really think anything
058got accomplished so this one was more they had like two really talking points that they really wanted everyone to go and advocate for that yeah um and the panelists too I thought uh this uh this group was less contentious uh more agreeing getting along um and not really attacking each other but uh I would say in the future too I I don't think the whole Board needs to go from a class perspective I think one to two people that kind of seemed what other District we're doing I know last or two years ago we did all five but I think we're kind of wasting money at that point uh so we'll have to see what it looks like two years from now but I think this one was definitely more organized MH I don't know
059if you guys felt the same way but yeah there it was a more hopeful experience um I know that uh last time that we went there was a focus around municipalities and they do seem to be looking to both schools in healthcare for increased uh funding so com if I could comment I just want to thank all of you for going um for those that haven't had the experience before it is it is kind of eye openening to go to Madison and have those opportunities um but I do appreciate uh I was kind of jealous that I couldn't go this year um but um I agree I don't necessarily think all of us need to go every time what I was going to ask is there any thought um during this process of the um
060by the budget of inviting our lawmakers in just to see things like tonight when we have this room filled with uh all those commendations and so forth I really think they need to understand all the great things that are happening in our schools and also you know why this funding is so important to continue that and I don't want to put Noah on the spot or anything but I I think student voice is really important in that as well I would love if our day at the capital could incorporate our student board members I think that would be very nice so I didn't want to put you on the spot but I don't know what's your thoughts are no I agree with that um through my personal experience at the capital um interacting with a
061variety of legislators and the capital process if you will um I think there's a significant value in being able to interact with that and see how it works uh face to face and I think uh as school board members especially being able to be a part of not only the process here but also the process at the capital would be very um eye openening and relevant to what we do here every day or not every day but you know every week every other week no when did you go to advocate for um robotics is that why you were there last yeah uh in February uh me and a few of the other leaders on our robotics team attended the capital and advocated to local legislators I met with um my local Senator van wangard and
062um being able to talk to him and get his perspective as a policy maker was very um as I mentioned eye openening because um as students we see all of these policy makers at the capital and we know that they're doing things for us but we don't actually get to see what they're doing what they're why they're doing it and how it affects them and actually being able to have conversations with them uh when lob beinging helped helped meet personally kind of understand what all that is about thanks we could certainly continue to invite them we do send invitations from time to time but we could uh look to do additional maybe a tour of our reset would be appropriate based on one of our conversations in terms of the board's public policy priorities we
063tried to highlight three things one was reimbursement to special education moving that up to at least 60% um inflationary increase to per student revenue and we've calculated that at $415 and 430 for year one and year two of the budget and then addressing the teacher Pipeline and we've commented on some of the things like the pilot program that we're taking part in here locally um what we heard bipartisan agreement in is increase to special education funding but we saw um a large um uh difference in terms of what that percentage should be so we heard number numers of moving it from right now um in law it's at 33 but it's not a um uh it's only a fixed sum so it's really going to be reimbursed at about 31% so we heard lawmakers talking
064about 33 to 35% so a very incremental increase and then all the way to other lawmakers saying 60% or more um to get all the way to what the um reimbursement is on the special needs voucher reimbursement where that's uh 90% reimbursement um so we saw a variety uh point two we asked about inflationary increase well we heard from some lawmakers as they're waiting to see court case um be resolved in terms of the veto by the governor to keep the $325 per student in the future budgets and they were waiting for that to be resolved to identify what that increase would be um and so there it sounded like there was not bipartisan support for a number and then on item three teacher pipeline we did hear uh significant bipartison support for easing rules
065for um bringing back retired teachers and removing the restrictions in terms of hours worked um and trying to find a solution to that language and then like I said we shared some of our experiences in terms of teacher apprenticeship and looking for support um whether that's group negotiation at the state level or funding for that program going forward and there we did see interest in a bipartisan fashion that they understand there's a Workforce shortage and that they want to help and support all right thanks Jonathan anyone else questions no all right uh Board calendar um this Friday evening yes it's the Friday before spring break but this Friday evening here at the high school college park has their raffle night uh so their PTO will be hosting their raffle night at the high school in
066the multi-purpose room if you are interested in not leaving town uh immediately in the evening that is an opportunity and then uh election day is April 1st and we'll be hosted in our schools and then this week Tuesday Wednesday Thursday we have all district concerts um I think Tuesday is band Wednesday is Orchestra and Thursday is choir all right thank you uh second opportunity for comments I'm not seeing any uh so we will adjourn uh next school board meeting is Monday April 7th