001e you guys ready all right the time is now 7 o'clock and we'll call this meeting to order a row call will show that four board members are here and Tasha Hughes is virtual and Noah is here Nick is excused and uh has this meeting been posted yes it has all right we will start off tonight's meeting with the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation God indivisible with liy and justice for all it's lovely to have it behind us all right we'll start off today's meeting uh getting into Panther Pride Highland View all right thank you for having us tonight we are excited um to be here to present our Panther um Pride from Highland View we are going
002to be talking about our student leadership team that we started this year and so obviously you can see um we brought some friends with us to kind of talk about that and um to share with you some of the work that they're doing at Highland View um we do believe that having a student leadership team um does help support our mission and making sure that we um have all students feel like they belong and that is part of our mission as a student leadership team as well so we're going to kind of talk a little bit just about the purpose and kind of goal of our student leadership team how it was built and why we kind of started that um every year we give the students the belonging climate survey um and us as
003adults we look at that survey result we dig into the data we have those conversations we make inferences on the data we make sure we try to figure out what we can act on things like that um but with that being said we we missing a piece and that was our student voices and so that was um that is an important part part of this data because it is student data and so with that we decided that we would like to start a student leadership team and therefore this is the purpose of establishing that and why we establish a student leadership team so in in the hopes of developing leadership skills in teamwork and responsibility um these these students work really well together they put together a lot of fun things that they're going to
004share with you um they do serve as role models for our students as well and we're hoping that it provides students just the opportunity to contribute to the school community in a positive way and to really have their voices be heard um at the school level collectively together as a group um we do use then our student data to help improve the culture and climate of the school and just hoping that it makes this the school the best it can be with that um we actually did go through a a mini data protocol with our students and with a student leadership team so we kind we put our data numbers in front of um the students and we came up with our own inferences and we came up with our own suggestions and ideas of
005how we could improve that student data some of the ones that we really looked into is just the how much respect do students had have at your or show at your school um how do students follow the rules of your school and then when you are at school how much do you feel like you belong and so those were the really the three Focus areas that we are focusing on this school year or right now currently with our student leadership group um which then led into our um establish in different groups that you will hear from tonight um with that we do keep in mind um this was from our PB PBIS team uh they updated these expectations last school year and so these are expectations we help our community stay safe and clean we
006prepare to learn and work um we are inclusive and we care about ourselves and others and this is in all School locations um so like I said this was updated last school year but now we use this as a tool to kind of guide some of our work as on the student leadership team we also use our character strong program um and the character traits so every month um we do focus on one character trait um with and that's within lessons with our teachers that's announcements that's different activities but this really helps guide our work on our student leadership team and so the work that we're doing focuses on these character traits and how we can improve those among our school um community and with that I'm going to pass it on to Senora Bradley
007so I also get to help these wonderful kids and Mrs doe with student leadership team and the big goals even for students are to give them a voice and to influence a positive School culture um we want to promote kindness inclusion and respect we want to give them opportunities to organize events and school activities and then support those those School initiatives and the character education program so in order to set this up we began a process we had students submit an application to apply to serve on the student leadership team um and they had to have a recommendation from their teacher and a signature from the parent some of the questions were what sort of qualities make you a good leader and when have you helped a friend or classmate um another one was what
008sort of difference do you want to make with our school by serving on the student leadership team so the students applied and they serve during their lunch recess or their lunchtime every other week this week we're doing a bonus one and extra week because we want to get some work done and then every student that applied was AC accepted onto the team and now we have 33 total students serving on the student leadership team all right and now it's time for student voices sh things around for a second um so every member of the team we did bring our fifth grade some fifth grade Representatives those are them that were interested in joining us tonight um but every student on um this or up here tonight was asked the question what does it mean um
009being on the student leadership team mean to you hi I'm Macy G being on the student leadership team means a lot to me knowing that I can make a difference in my school hi my name is Macy W being on the student leadership team means a lot to me because I get to help out my school and teach all the students about our character strong trade hi I'm Aubrey and I feel lucky and grateful to be on the leadership team because I am able to have the privilege and of having an amazing impact on Highland View I am Al very happy that I'm able to have a saying what is happening hi I'm Addison and I feel grateful that I am on the student leadership team and that I get to make an impact on
010my community and my school hi my name is McKenzie being on the leadership team team means I can offer to help others and listen to my peers hi my name is Cameron being on the student leadership team means that I get to understand other students feelings and how me and my team can work together to make a positive impact on the school hi my name is Bailey and being on the student leadership team means a lot to me because I can work with others to come up with ideas to make the school a better place and make the school Community a safe space for everyone to share how they are feeling doing and Etc hi my name is Lydia Gart um to me being on the student leadership team means helping the school be a
011better place hi my name is Cara uh for me being on the soon leadership team means being a good leader making decisions about the school and making a difference for the school it also means being a good role model for younger kids hi my name is Adrian to me being on the leadership team means working with my peers to help students feel like they belong the student leadership means to me I'm I am lucky and proud to be on the student leadership team so I can help the students feel like they belong together as a school Community I am so lucky that I can be a part of the student leadership team and help others feel safe and welcome I feel lucky and excited to be on the student leadership team because I feel help
012because I feel like I can help the school be a be part of some of the decisions for the school and now we're going to kind of get just get into some of the groups and the work that they're they already have worked on or are currently working on in December our first project was an empathy drive to the madok Milwaukee animal Domestic Animal Control Commission animal shelter everyone on the student leadership team made posters that were hung up around the school we also made announcement announcements over the PA we collected and donated food food and toys to the shelter because running a shelter like this needs a lot of supplies some items that were donated were cat toys dog toys dog food and cat food now we're going to hear from our belonging group
013um currently the belonging group is working on making slides to present to our younger students to help them understand what belonging means our belonging group is also working on having the lower grades figure out how to detect their feelings and emotions to do this we have come up with some ideas like arts and crafts in classrooms that help identify feelings we have an idea that we can do a fidget em motion Corner in each classroom we will make her buy Emotion fidget toys and when a student is feeling upset frustrated sad or anxious they can use the in Emotion squishy that they are feeling and we have a we have a book group the book group is currently working on creating slides to present to each class each presentation will include a read aloud the
014books that will be read will share a positive message around the school the books that we are reading are different a great thing to be I am human a book about empathy the world is awaiting you after after we read the book to the class there will be fun activities for the students to complete we have a respectful um and respect and inclusive group we're we are working on making a simulation or a game for learning different ways to respect and include others we are going to be going into different classrooms and playing different games each student will be giving given a small piece of paper with a few ways we can be inclusive we are going to have the student put the paper on the outside of their cubby or Locker and we have
015an expectation in character strong group our group is working on a cahoot that all classes in the school can do to learn and understand our school as characters traits from character strong right now we are finishing the questions for the game the questions are based on scenarios like is this an example of perseverance and which of these are an example of honesty so that was um just the groups that we have put together and so obviously as can see there's some great things and um they're very proud of the work that they are currently working on we're excited to get into those classrooms to share those um activities that we're doing with them to wrap this up we did ask um the students why do you think having a student leadership team is important for
016the school so we have three students that are going to share that with us the student leadership team is important for the school because it can help the students feel like they have a safe place to talk to teachers and feel like they belong I think the student leadership team is important to the school because it can help the students feel safe and welcome we can listen to what the students are saying and help other students I think it's important to have a student leadership team because it I think it's good to have the students opinion included do you have any questions great job you guys questions so first a comment you all did a wonderful job and to the young gentleman that's here with all the girls congratulations to you for joining them um
017let's give them a hand um first of all um thank you for sharing I didn't uh what was the first group that you said before belonging I apologize I mean before belonging yes the very first one you mentioned the Mad group we did it anal yeah okay gotcha yep very close and near and dear to my heart um I want to first of all say that I I'm aware of the Care uh character strong program and one of the traits there is courage and I think it took a lot of Courage for all of you to come tonight before this board not necessarily knowing any of us and to stand up and share how your leadership is impacting your school so I just want to thank you for that um you you all have a
018strong message and you all have the potential to be even stronger leaders when you get into middle school and high school and so I wanted to thank you for that I want to just give a shout out to Addie Miller I believe it is where's Addie Miller there she is there's two of you I know they're twins um she's come before this board once before about a soccer field at Highland View and what you guys are here about is leadership and that took great leadership on your part coming to us a couple times to talk about your concerns and I believe those concerns have been addressed so I just want to thank you for your leadership and I just want to ask um maybe one or two of you your favorite thing about being leaders
019on this uh this group come on um one of my favorite things about being on the student leadership team is probably all the like community and volunteer work where we do my favorite thing about the student leaders about being on the student leadership team is being able to find different ways or make different ideas to be able to help many students with whatever and like Lydia said with all the volunteering that we get to do thank you y thank you guys thank [Applause] you thank you great job [Music] everyone all right moving on to Communications I'd like to begin Communications uh sharing a celebration that happened at canabury recently and was featured on CBS 58 so take a look I have to unmute it sorry and steps as AJ bport as children grow up there
020are many Milestones to celebrate their first birthday first words and steps as AJ bport discovered at one school in Greendale another accomplishment learning how to read earns a Royal Treatment reception fit for little kings and queens through the halls of caner Elementary princes and princesses as far as the eye can see they March past Applause from their peers and enter the cafeteria where the welcoming arms of parents and Guardians await that support is amazing and it's wonderful to see those families connecting with their children and each other around something as fundamental as reading indeed reading is the reason for this celebration canterberry holds a kings and queens parade to commemorate this group of kindergarteners whove become readers kindergarten is special because I get to teach kids how to read which is crazy and amazing teacher
021Lauren Wii applied a new reading curriculum I do this core knowledge language arts or ckla is one of four recommended curricula under act 20 Wisconsin's new literacy law they're going to learn A and B before they learn A and B it's a phics based form of reading instruction following the science of reading which has been credited with improving reading in States like Louisiana and Mississippi unicorn party we had a lot of students that were achieving at high levels before but it's spread greendale's superintendent Kim amidzic says the district adopted ckla one year before the law took full effect and is happy with the results what we've seen is an increase in achievement both on our local benchmarks and last year with our full year implementation typically you would see an implementation dip and we did
022not we saw Improvement across the board in all of our tested areas for these Royal Rug Rats doing such a wonderful job Emma phonics is just the foundation there's also an emphasis on comprehending the words those sounds make they all decided to be friends instead and the meaning of the sentences they form hence the theme of kings and queens they're excited about it the dress up the they were excited about what we learned so we talked about real life kings and queens for parents like David and Lisa KS Captain bellyfish walked around and said I'm the toughest pirate on Earth the payoff is apparent she started to recognize words as I was reading to her and it just it's it's a magical moment right I think that's the biggest payoff right as a teacher is
023seeing that aha moment we call it the light bulb and you see it just click not just reading for me but also watching her start to write her own words and and put senten together I think that was a aha moment for me just that she's recognizing words there's also some long-term reasoning behind this theme of royalty building background knowledge for what's needed in some of the complex text that they will experience Shakespeare for example this is a foundational background knowledge that will help them tackle a Shakespeare in text as a high school student by commemorating these Newfound reading skills with their families the hope is to make reading something even bigger than fairy tales and bedtime stories it's just great to see people take time out of their day to come here and and
024participate and celebrate this Milestone leaders in local Health Care sat down with Governor Tony okay so that was coverage from Canterbury obviously the kindergarteners at all three elementary schools participated in that unit but that was uh lovely to have that piece um essentially encapsule encapsulate all that we have been learning uh you mentioned nicusia is excused this evening he is spending the week in Washington DC as part of the United States youth Senate program two student leaders from each state the District of Columbia and the Department of Defense Education activity will spend a week in Washington experiencing their national government in action students must be actively serving in high level elected or appointed leadership positions to qualify to apply student delegates will hear major policy addresses addresses by Senators cabinet members officials from the Departments
025of state and defense and directors of other federal agencies as well as usually participate in meetings with the president and a Justice of the US Supreme Court uh given that Nick is there now and we know that he's speaking that President Trump has uh is speaking to Congress today he has an opportunity to see that so it's quite an honor that he qualified for the program and quite a week to experience it uh the black history Community Connection event Drew over 150 commun community members to College Park for a vibrant celebration featuring uh African drumming dance performances and Gospel Choir presentations attendees enjoyed browsing diverse vendor offerings including coffee clothing and Fitness Products creating a rich cultural Marketplace atmosphere the successful Gathering fostered Community connections and cultural appreciations setting a positive precedent for the upcoming
026Arabic Heritage Community Connection event in April congratulations to the green Del PS on their great weekend at Badger Spirit they took first place in small Varsity pal kick and Hip Hop divisions congratulations to our 11 students who competed at Deca last week uh five of the students qualified for Deca Nationals at the end of April and I will let Noah share more about that when he gives you the student updates uh ghs theater was nominated for 18 Jerry awards for its winter production of six teen Edition all six Queens for were nominated for outstanding leading performer and as an entire production the show is nominated for outstanding musical winners will be announced on May 10th 2025 the Jerry awards are Sunday June 8th at the Overture Center in Madison and you can hear The Adams
027Family rehearsing in their Tech week spring musical opens this weekend you can get tickets online at greenell schools.org shows are March 7th 8th 14th and 15th at 700 p.m. and a matina show on March 9th at 2: p.m. and tomorrow evening the Community Alliance will host the annual Family Wellness event at Greendale High School the event includes poster presentations from our eighth grade health students advocating for healthy behaviors and finally on Tuesday March 11th Juniors at Greendale high school and across the state of Wisconsin will take the act as part of the Statewide assessment the testing window for Wisconsin Statewide assessment for grades 3 through 10 opens the following week results will be part of the metrics for the school and district report cards that concludes my communications all right thank you uh Noah moving
028on to you uh well Dr midic took a lot of the updates that I was planning on sharing today um but to add on to what she was saying members of Green Del DEA competed at the state competition now six of the 11 qualified for ICDC the international competition through a variety of projects in competitive series congratulations to Leo Jack Laney Ella who just qualified today and Eva uh as Dr mik also mentioned the student Equity team held a community connections event in celebration of Black History Month on the 27th in celebration of African-American culture and finally robotics prepares for their first Regional competition in two weeks thank you all right thank you uh moving on to questions or comments from visitors all right not seeing any so we will move on to approving the
029meeting minutes uh before we do that does anyone have anything to add sure I would like to uh make a motion to amend the meeting minutes um it did indicate that we had a Clos session meeting at the end but we did not have a closed session meeting so I would ask that that be removed otherwise they look fine all right thank you do we have a second second all right looking for a roll call yes yes yes I'm yes yes and sorry forgot about you yeah did that one all right um moving on to the second reading for policy updates uh yes as we discussed at the last meeting policy 5330 administration of medication and Emergency Care was being reviewed by the medical adviser the medical adviser and school nurse uh are in support
030of the concept of adding the Broncho dilators and the other additions but they need an extra week to meet and review some of the logistics before they make recommendations on uh policy adjustments so I recommend approval of the policies as outlined in agenda item uh 3.2 omitting policy 5330 um to be brought back at a future meeting following the medical advisor review all right thank you do we have any questions comments all right looking for a motion I'll move approval of the second reading of the policy updates as outlined in agenda item 3.1 second all right we have a motion in a second yes yes yes um yes all right motion passes uh moving on to Jonathan budget planning so included in your packet is an update on the budget uh and steps that we've
031been taking so a couple of notes Here we did update the budget tasks document so we keep a little more detailed um level view of uh different discussions that we're having whether that's discussions around the budget of the building level or departmental level or if we're engaging different members of the community um Dr midic and I participated with a legislative breakfast last Friday so some of the steps that we're um having as we go forward with building the budget and sharing the bo board's public policy priorities so we're keeping track of that week by week as we move forward um the other big piece of information was the governor's budget was released and so we updated scenarios within the budget so when we talked about um this prior we had shown an initial projection showing
032a deficit of $769,000 for the 2526 year um so we did go through and do a projection and use that as scenario one on the attachment of the governor's proposal and so the big components that are included there is a 60% reimbursement for special education expenses it includes um uh slightly above the $325 per student amount um and it includes $383 in year one of the budget and 433 in the second year so in that first year it adds $58 per student and the second year an additional $ um so we added that and then the third factor that was included was a waiting Factor on P per pupil aid for students that are economically disadvantaged and so we worked with beard and used an adjustment of $160 per student um and that added another
033$16,490.73 for next year would put the district at a deficit of 769 th000 um with that Governor's Proposal with just those three items I had mentioned uh we would actually go to a surplus of 1, 283,000 for next year so obviously very different um outcomes with those assumptions what we know from experience is that um um the final budget at the state level Falls somewhere in the middle and we also know that there's been some um concerns or possibilities of withholding of federal funds and so it's prudent for us to project in both spaces and be um prepared to make adjustments as um we progress through the next several months of legislative actions do we have a scenario for the budget without any federal funds so we can uh update that and share that with
034the board um we did share that that's about $2 million in total revenue um a large chunk of that comes from the Food Service budget so we'd have to make some assumptions about what happens in that scenario because that's separate from our operations and special education buckets which would be the other two impacted with e- rate funding and Medicaid flow through Grant and title um but we can um we can work to make some assumptions it's uh it is challenging to think about what that looks like with zero dollars in federal funding I did listen to a webinar um with uh someone that is from uh Georgetown University last week talking about the idea that schools should be prepared for the possibility of federal funds being cut but not necessarily being totally eliminated and so
035that's definitely something that's part of the discussion is how would we handle that and on a I would say a smaller level it's something we went through this year where we saw cuts to title and our special education flow through dollars just based on how the formula is calculated we had to make some adjustments within the budget but if that's something the board would want to see is zero dollars in federal funding we could create that I think it'd be helpful just as a baseline just to see where we would be at without anything um just kind of given that standpoint of what we could see if nothing and then obviously as we step and add more money and I think it would be beneficial to see where that money is going or where we
036may need to draw from one of I agree because I think that also that would be very Point like we try and keep the mill rate and we're trying to keep some of these things set but you know if the quotequote rugs pulled out from underneath us we only have one place to go so I think just putting it out there and making sure we're transparent and so people can see that ahead of time I think that's going to be very beneficial as as um Jonathan discussed the the buckets that would be impact Ed some of them would be a direct correlation to no Services provided and some would be um that those Services would need to continue to be provided and we would have to take from the general fund so we can certainly
037work that up if for the board to see where where the impact would be felt on a similar line um how this this will potentially impact our special ad as well right or we're obligated to provide these Services because as a federal money completely tied to special ed or is it also divied up other ways um as you said it's tied to special education it's tied to Title Services which includes reading and math intervention um professional development for staff and El Services although it's a very small amount for El Services very very small amount um and then it is tied to special education and it's tied to Medicare Services which is some of the therapies that students get in school and then national school lunch program uh reimbursements so we'd have to make some decisions
038in terms of do we have a qualifying area or is all lunch paid but yes the main bucket is the flow through dollars so that's the individuals of Disabilities Act and so that goes back now this year 50 years and that original law was written that the federal government would pay 40% % of the excess cost and so if it was 40% of our true excess costs that would be something in the neighborhood of $3 million per year but um currently the federal government funds for us uh under 10% and that's been the way that's gone since that law has been implemented but like you said uh unless there's a change in how we're delivering Services the district would still be required to do that even if that funding source did did not exist but
039when those conversations come up with our Statewide School business official group from advocacy on a national level we asked them to bring that up in terms of the legislation and that original commitment was significantly higher than it is today did you feel you had um much reception from the legislative breakfast you went to last week or are their minds made up we had about a two-hour conversation um Tasha attended with us as well as legislative Lea on um and we had a about a 2-hour conversation and the uh legislators in the room were engaged uh they had opinions and ideas obviously but they were listening um we were able to provide the um budget public policy or the public policy priorities to each of our representatives and to the representatives from other districts that were
040there there were four representatives there um so so they were invested engaged and part of the conversation and three of the four of them brought Legislative Assistant who were participating and engaged as well were these like just Round Table discussions or were you like oneon-one with them it was a it was all of us were having a collective conversation in the room there were no individual conversations they were uh the entire room which included um board members and administrators from and Greenfield as well thank you for attending yeah Natasha too anyone else have anything to add for Jonathan all right okay thank you appreciate it all right moving on to Board calendar uh there is a lot going on this week um tomorrow there is the as I mentioned the uh schools in Community Alliance
041I said it was at the high school but it's actually at the middle school from 5:30 to 7:30 uh Community is welcome to attend and uh Friday is opening night of the musical the spring musical The Adams Family and next week is the first meeting of the board finance committee from 5: to 6:30 on March 12th that is open to the public and oh there's read me a story at Highland View on Friday as well as a Highland View PTO meeting next week Monday and I believe there's one more event that I'm missing here oh the middle or the middle school has uh their raffle and ice cream social on Friday evening as well so a busy Friday evening if you're looking for something to do and senior night at the theater on Thursday that
042is next week Thursdays so um those tickets are sold out um but if you would put tickets to the senior at the theater are sold out but board members may be in attendance as volunteers and they will sell tickets at the door for general admission uh for the 6:30 performance of the musical all right uh additional comments I'm not seeing anyone what all right uh that'll do it for tonight uh next meeting is St Patrick's Day March 17th have a good night thanks Tasha bye