001We're good. All right. Good. All right. I'll call the meeting to order. It's agenda date, time, and location were properly announced. Thank you all for coming out. Um, we'll start with the approval of the minutes of April 20, 2025, the regular meeting, and May 12th, 2025, the board retreat. Is there a motion to approve? Katie, is there a second? Chris. Okay. Uh, any corrections, questions? All those in favor, please say I. Oppose. Motion carries. um payment of the bills. Is there a um motion to approve for the month of April the amount of $843,9454? So moveie, is there a second? Amy, any questions? I actually just had a couple and I'm sorry I should have mentioned it. There you go. You can test us. Test us. Here we go. Yes. about the Tiger Tech CNC
002router for 27,000. Just wondered where that went down that's part of that funded from the from a grant from Okay, great. So, we replaced one and approved it or Okay, and then just um more curiosity um United fundraising and promotions 9,415. Was that a fundraiser or do we know what that was? It just seemed like I didn't recognize. Thank you. Any other questions? All those in favor, please say I. Opposed. Motion carries and the cash summary. Uh, no questions, but I just going to put a big thank you out to Patty. I know we're in the part right now of doing all of our grants and doing all the requests and everything there. So, um, everything is up to date and I keep getting emails every day like DPI is okay this, DPI is okay
003that. So, just keep moving forward. Okay. Any questions today? the cash summary. All right. Uh donations. Yes. Congratulations to Mrs. Gnau for the budding botonist celebrate uh for science in second grade. It was another donor. Um I didn't see any public comments when I came in. No one. Anybody changed their mind? Okay. Uh that takes us to the referendum discussion. Okay. Um you have the updates here. Hopefully you got to walk by the new honor wall. We have right now the emblems and the cases up. Um thank you Debbie and Cindy. I went through all of the veterans, the list that you guys is there something like 400 names that we have right now and scouring through all kinds of databases and everything else. So, um this is becoming a really cool community project of
004a lot of people. Garrett, we know um is doing this as his Eagle Scout, but there's been a lot of really really um dedicated people to to make this a really cool piece. So, Um, it's once everything's done and it fits in the hallways have carpeting and everything looks good, it'll look even better. But it looks pretty good the way it is. So, other than that, we're on uh we're on uh we're on our time frame is where it's supposed to be. My is just chomping at the bit to start June 2nd and get things going. So, we're going to have a busy summer, but it's uh it's kind of a cool time right now. Any questions? How far back does the 400 How far back did you have to vote for that Civil War?
005Yeah. Yeah. That's right. These are just graduates, right? Or are we doing the whole random lake community? We are making it people from the random lake community during this time. So, so acknowledging anyone from this area that would be there at that time. This is a time of one room school houses and things like that, but thought if we're going to do it, let's go back to to the beginning of it. So, um we don't have records. Some of these maybe graduated eighth grade, who knows? From the Civil War. Um we have a bunch of World War I that were students that actually didn't graduate to go to war, I think. Right. We we found some of those out. So, I don't know where you where you stop at where you started, but we thought
006if you're from this area and we have a place to recognize, um, it seems like the right thing to do. That's cool though. Anything else on that on the construction? No. Um I I guess I could say the choir and the fitness room, those things are uh in the final stages right now. Um, our equipment for the fitness center is supposed to be coming in July and, uh, we'll be set here. Um, by the time we get back, everything will be ready to roll. What's the When will the fitness center be open with the community? So, luckily we have Jake here. So, um, we have the fitness center, the old fitness center. What are the hours for the open to 7 a.m. Monday to Thursday summer as well as 3:00 to 6:00 and then July
007everything delivered make sure that everything is all by mid August. We're fortunate with mostly all new equipment in the new fitness center. We can leave that old section that's just going to be storage anyways. So, it allows us that time to make sure everything's set, ready to go. Will the new fitness center will it have expanded hours? We're still talking about just slight extend hours. really obvious. The ultimate goal, like we said to the community when we did it, it had it's came. Um, it has its own secure entrance. Um, you can get into the fitness center without getting into the rest of the district. Um, we will then start talking legally what is it like to allow people in there that there's times that they could be in there without supervision where we want
008to pay for supervision. Kind of like a 24-hour business type thing. Um, but we're just trying to get into the new space and then figure out what would that look like? What is the interest in that? And then what are the things we need to put in place insurance and liability wise to make that happen. So, so yeah, that's ideal to me. The hope is to to be able to open it up for for more hours for people in our support. Great. Anything else? All right. Board committee reports. Budget committee met and someone just be on the No action we could probably just do right now. Okay. Except for the day fees. Yeah, day will be later on the agenda and yeah, just other things we're working on towards the budget which they say they
009the state says they'll have a budget for us July. So, we'll see. So, we were just talking what ifs at this point and then we also had a policy committee meeting and the second reading is on the agenda for tonight. That takes us building report. Yes. So, I'm going to start with strong classrooms with some of the reporting we've been doing previously. We had a group of students in our lowest 26th percentile. Um and then they were placed on some reading plans and some of those family um students were in the classroom with a regular ed teacher getting um tier 2 support in the classroom and some of them were with Mrs. Utek. I'm happy to report that we have dismissed 16 students um from those reading plans already this year and that started in
010March. um and they've already made so much growth that they could be off those plans. So, exciting news for us. So, I have ACT and preACT growth. So, we had our ACT assessment day in April. Um and our scores are looking uh really good. So, from our two practice tests to the ACT preACT assessment day, we have had overall growth of students two to three points across uh the grade levels, which is pretty significant. And so they did a wonderful job there and really uh thanks to the Princeton review that we switched to um and the focus on that along with those practice days. And then we had the teachers also uh worked individually with kids and small groups of kids leading up to that ACT preACT assessment day. So really putting a lot of
011work into that to have kids be prepared. English 10 mock trial. So Mrs. Peterson in her English 10 class um they did a mock trial. They've been working on it for over a month and last week it culminated with a field trip to the courthouse um where they actually worked through uh sort of like a trial and the kids did a fabulous job. I was in the classroom a few times and they really were working on their questioning and you know being a defendant, a prosecutor so it was a great experience for them and we hope to expand to actually offer a mockt trial club uh coming up. Um, so it got them really excited about that. And then end of the year field trips are underway. So we're looking at doing a variety of
012fun things, elementary and middle school. So um over these next eight and a half days, uh they'll be going all sorts of places um to have some grade level time together. So looking forward to that. and our RAM card incentive economy that was at the high school. We handed out oh close to a 100 cards and this was based on academic growth and performance um and seen a nice turnout being redeemed at uh our Ramway Cafe as well as our concessions. Awesome. Our final day of school, we're going to do a student choice day. This was the idea of our PBIS team. So allowing students to choose things that they might be interested in. So we the teachers are teaching all different kinds of activities. Um Erin Casper is going to take some students fishing.
013Um so just a lot of fun um from Play-Doh to rock painting to sidewalk chalk to um scavenger hunts. Just a lot of really fun things coming up as we try to end our year on a high note. Um and then I would have we um Dr. Chimber and I got to meet with the Gables um facility. This is our first year for elementary to get a chance to take students over to Gables. And so the third through the fifth grade, it um went over um once a month. Um and we did it like alternating weeks. So that there's some pictures in there of the activities they did, which I thought was really cool. Um we did run into a part of the year where there was illness and we didn't want to make our
014residents sick and they didn't, I'm sure, didn't want to share their their illness. So, we missed a couple um times in there with our first graders and our 4K. Um but they love the program, encouraged us to come back next year. So, I'll be working with them to kind of schedule that again. And our other community outreach is um the with the library. We increased our library visits this year. And I got a really um wonderful email from Carmen just talking about how she sees kids and their parents visit more often now. um she said they they have connected with those reluctant readers and they they are just loving um that opportunity to go to the public library and she does a really nice job. She prepares a craft with them and they do that
015and then check out books. So that's been kind of cool. And then the final thing I wanted to draw attention to our four kids is hosting music in the park on June 12th. So we're excited and hope everybody can make time to get on out to music in the park. So, last we want to end with um talking about youth apprenticeships. I'm going to turn it over to Jake Frias who really has been um heading this up. Thank you. Come on up, guys. So, the past few years we've seen tremendous growth in our youth apprentichip program. Um my first year, we just had two kids to start the program off. We ended up with five that year, um 15 last year, and we ended up with 24 this year. looking at close to 30 next
016year. Uh we have a few of our students here that are going to talk about their experience this year. If you want to go through and just say who you are, what year you are, and where you are an apprentice at this year. Um I'm Cristiana Vandenhuvil. I'm a senior this year and I'm apprenticing here at Random Lake Elementary School as a teacher. I'm Tucker Hiller and I'm a senior this year and I'm employed here at the school as like a teachers assistant. I'm Carly Bernbomb. I'm a junior and I work at Random Lake Dentistry in town. So, we'll go through two and u the first question I have is uh tell us about one of the highlights you've had at your uh current location of your apprenticeship. Um I would say the biggest highlight
017is just being with all the kids, knowing a lot of different kinds of kids. Um yeah, kids are pretty awesome. My favorite is actually seeing the kids learn the material that they're being taught in their face instead of them like not getting it and getting left behind. My favorite thing is um working with people and being able to learn new things and get a head start on what I'm going to be doing in the future. And the big push is making sure that you guys are getting hands-on life lessons as well. Tell us about some life lessons that this apprenticeship opportunity has taught you. I don't know. I guess um it's never easy, but learning along the way, it's it always it's always really worth it and it's always pretty fun to learn. Patience. Um,
018some kids don't get it as fast, and I learned that the hard way with a couple kids, but that's probably the most important part that I learned. Um, probably communication with patients, with the people that I work with, and time management, scheduling, and things like that. And finally, where are you guys looking to pursue your uh post-secary degree after Random Lake High School? Um, I'm going to LTC for an associates in education, but I do plan to go forward and become a music teacher eventually with probably elementary students. I want to go to Green Bay Shabboan for two years with a major in math and then educ minor in education. I might switch that to education. I could be a science teacher instead. My plan right now is MATC for dental hygiene or LTC. Any
019questions from the board members at all? So they're they're they're all four year apprenticeships. tell us a little bit about like the application process like how you decided you wanted to do it, what had to do to get like is it competitive? That's it. I came in during the summer last year and at first I didn't think I had a very good It wasn't an actual like what's it called? interview. Interview. And I didn't think I was going to get it cuz I thought I did a really bad job. But I guess I didn't. Um I I didn't know if it was competitive or not. Was it? I guess it was. But yeah, it felt like an actual job interview, at least to me. Um, I in the summer started like I was at a
020dentist appointment and I talked to them about being interested in it and then I talked to Mr. Frius about getting into possibly doing youth apprentichip. They let me come in for a job shadow and then I started a couple months later and I'm doing work release next year too. Do you have anything? Um, to be honest, I don't remember much of that whole process. That was a long time ago, but yeah. So, have you have you had to are you happy with the amount of time? Um, on Mondays I leave school at 1 and the rest of the days I go up. Are you still Um, I don't do sports. I do theater in the fall and it never conflicted. They were really flexible with um my hours and everything. But yeah, me and Cristian
021are both at school, so we basically just come to school and still get paid for it, which is pretty nice. You have anything? I mean, I'd say the the hardest part about scheduling when you're working with in education as a youth apprentice is that you can't really do it after school. There's not much, you know, not much else you can do. Service. H that's true. Not always the best part, but um so we only really get an hour during the day and that's not always not always the greatest, but something to move forward from. Do me a favor. compare to learning in your youth apprentichip compared to learning in the classroom. What are the the differences? How does it feel? It's a lot more active in a classroom. And I feel like I've taken a
022lot of child care classes and all of the things you read about and they tell you about when you're in the moment kind of thinking through those things, it's a lot less complicated and it's a lot easier to understand when you're really, you know, there. I get to see two different teachers kind of teach and seeing how different they are really shows that you can take it your own kind of style and make it your own. Um, it's a lot more hands-on and geared toward what I want to do in the future. There's not any classes that are here that are geared toward dental hygiene, but being able to learn things that I will be learning about in college helps me get a head start, too. So another question Tucker kind of legendary county because
023I I've been trying to help other schools see that being able to have our juniors and seniors help out in the elementary middle school are really beneficial and I heard you wanted goardian. Yes told that story probably at least a dozen times. Why just help us? Why why tell us why you requested the to have access to go guardian? At first I said it as a joke. So I really didn't think I was actually going to get access to it. And then when Miss McDonald said in the hallway, I'm going to get Go Garden, I was more in disbelief that I'm even getting it cuz I didn't think they would even trust me. But yeah, it was fun. What' you do once you had it? I didn't really use it that much. too much work.
024You have to like get their emails and everything. Any other questions from the board for our apprentices? Thank you. Awesome. Thank you guys. Appreciate it. [Music] at the end of that is the last. That's the last of it. Okay. I didn't know if you guys had any more because you know we're ready for it. Yeah. Okay. Uh so here's the second reading of the new act 20 policy from Niola. Um is there a motion to approve? So moved. Is there a second? Amy, any um questions or discussion on this? This is uh one we had first reading last month. All those in favor, please say I. Opposed. Motion carries. Um, next we have the list of potential graduates 2025. Um, there is one on the list that is just here for sports. So, um, if
025you saw a name on there that is marked out. I don't know if anybody else got that marked out, but I do. Is there a motion to approve? I'll make a motion. Is there a second? Katie, any questions or discussion? So, we have 59 or 60. I didn't I didn't count them. Do you know 59? We're at 50. Okay. All those in favor, please say I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. Daycare fee schedule. There is a slight increase proposed for the daycare. Is there a motion to approve? Katie, is there a second? Chris, any questions or discussion? Do you remember what the like person what what this was when you were working or Patty when you were working with Diana on this where the numbers came from? We asked about this in the subcommittee meeting. I'm
026like I think it was a kind of percentage based off the five day and then from there did she share that with you at all? Okay. Pretty consistent with the area. She always that's the first thing like what's everybody local. approach. Any other questions? All those in favor, please say I. Opposed. Motion carries. Uh, next we have the uh continuation of participation in the 66301 agreement with Cedar Grove, Belgium, and for occupational services. This is something we've done in the past. Is there a motion to continue this? Chris, is there a second? Amy, any questions or discussion? Just want to say both of our agreements helps us get really good staff and uh allows us to to share the share the wealth. So, these are these are great advantages to us in all the districts
027that we work with. We call occupational services therapy services I never any other questions all those in favor please say I opposed motion carries another 66 6301 agreement for food service director with um Falls. Is there a motion to continue this? Katie, is there a second? Is that Chris? Uh any questions or discussion? And we've been doing this ever since October close to a decade. All those in favor, please say I. Opposed. Motion carries. Early graduation applicants. Um, Mr. said there's three that have met the uh conditions to apply for early graduation in 26. You're okay with okay and this is just a notification. So yeah January do you know what they're doing by chance? Like they're going to Yeah. Why they're leaving? Um well technical college. Okay. Um we have one staff resignation. Is
028there a motion to approve um the resignation from Michelle Sheffkin with thanks for her nine years of service to the district? Chris, was there a second? Katie, any questions or discussion? All those in favor, please say I. opposed. Motion carries and we don't have anything u for salaried and support staff resignations and no new professional staff. So that's 16 and 17 we can check off. And next that takes us into the open enrollment applications. New names on that. Yep. So, um, we talked a little bit about this, uh, last week, Monday. Um, as you're looking at it, you can see the highlighted are the same person that has, um, kind of shopping for, um, at other districts. And, um, you know, as I look at this, I think there's some areas that we're going to
029dive in a little bit deeper like we talked about and see, um, if these are just people that are exploring their options at this time or if they're planning on coming here. And um I just because people apply doesn't mean that they'll be leaving. So we'll be kind of doing a little bit of that here and figuring out um what's what are uh what are the things that make them think that maybe we don't have everything here and what we can do to uh prove to them. We do. So So yes, when they fill out an application, do they give reasons or do they are there any open-ended questions on there? or if they choose to go, we do an exit survey trying to assess why. We have made phone calls, you know, and we
030have we have a larger number at the earlier grades that is an anomaly that we haven't seen before that um I' I've heard from others that there might be some districts that are doing some hard recruiting um with the earlier kids um that um we haven't had to because of our full day 4K things like that. Um we were the first one there now. I think there may be some of our younger families that don't know about our full day 4K um and have um heard that other districts have it. So, those are some of the things that we need to call and figure out what's happening. I'd actually talked to a parent from another district. I said that they almost feel like they're getting hounded from the time their child turns to. Um that's
031something that we haven't historically done here, but u might be something that we need to make sure that our parents locally know what we have, especially with the things we're doing. our reading with our intervention with um the referendum and everything else. Um I think there's some opportunity to make sure that we get the word out. Yeah. She shaded two different colors because it was one person that was Could we put place where we can capture make sure to capture um a greater understanding of why like could we establish some sort of form or whether it's a call form and just make that part of this process so we can get that feedback and and you know call last year you know and and it's always you know I can tell you the themes making
032these calls are I'm driving this way for this job or I have this. It's family convenience that has always been um as one of the larger square mileage districts in the area. That's one of our strategic issues is it's sometimes quicker, easier, more on the way to go to this school on this way to work than it is another. Um but with the the prek and kindergarten numbers as they are, I think there's something I'm not sure if it's some sort of thought of a different school. Those are some things that we'll definitely get some feedback. I mean, I guess I'd like to see a little more data with this if possible. I mean, even if it's just categorized, right? Maybe it's like the location of school or work or, you know, their home and
033work, right? Or just so we can have this alarm see it. I'd like to understand, right? Yeah. Every year I bring it up too. I think there should be a survey. If we're losing this many kids, we need to send something out and have some concrete evidence, not just a phone call, you know, needs to come back to us so we can see it, too. And yeah, I mean, I'm not sure what kind of concrete besides answering a phone call um or possibly sending back a survey. um we're at the mercy of people that want to talk to us. That's what they choose. So in most cases, they've been pretty good at having a conversation from them. So or even a third party to do it. If you're saying they're at the mercy of wanting
034to talk to us, hopefully that's not because they're upset about something. It's more justy. I don't know much about concerns, but I have had a couple conversations with my parents over the last week or two. So, there is something and I think we have our finger on a couple things on this already. So, it's one of those things that keep there's some really false narratives on some things that we'll be addressing. So, But it all kind of all works together on this. So and it really reduces your funding too, right? As you keep losing. So then it really reduces and I'd be careful to say we keep losing individuals. It's it's our numbers have you know we're in a decline in enrollment of a few percentage every every year. Um which is very similar to
035a lot of our districts. Now, you know, as you look at it, every grade besides our early grades are, you know, this it's it was two years ago, we actually had more we have as many open in as out. So, um it's alarming, but I I also think there's we'll figure out what's um what's going on here. And just because people applied doesn't mean they so I think sometimes it's just what are the options that are open. So we got some time with someone to work on next and these people can always come up right. So um we're we're hearing sometimes you can hear great things in other places and those experience and they just naturally kind of come back and you don't see that in the numbers as as families come back and and
036find out what we have here. So, um, these numbers are shocking, but it they usually they they they level out some. So, but that's been a number that's been we've been chasing from well before our time that um there's some things strategically that are at a disadvantage for a district that has 90. It' be nice to be able to reach out to them. Like, I'm sure this year was tough, especially over here with the renovations and stuff. So, kind of reaching out like for another year if it's sort of like problems of moving around and spaces for little kids, right? For them. I would tell you, you know, with what we're doing with technology, with what our reading, what our intervention plans are, I can tell you that as a district, knowing what's around here,
037we have a product that's second to none. Um, but that is something that once is done and our hallways don't look like a haunted house like that we had somebody tell us this year. Um those are things that will be easily seen. So is this referendum stuff? I don't know. You know, so um is there a narrative in our community about homeschooling? Um yeah, I think there's that's something that's going across the state of Wisconsin uh around some of these things. Um, so we're we're we're we have pol political headwinds. Um, we have competition headwinds and um, luckily I think we're staying ahead of it with the things we're doing. We just need to make sure that these families that applied out know all the things that we're doing. So we're working too hard for
038these numbers to happen and uh, once that work gets out. Yeah, you're doing so many positive things. going in this direction. Where is Medford area public? That's a virtual school, I believe. Right. I think a lot of these are Yeah. So, some of these ones that are out of the area are virtual schools and you know, some of these virtual schools are looking at kids as numbers and it's a business and you know, they put 25% of their total budget into marketing, right? We put our we put we put our money into our people and our product and things like that. Um, But there will be a time where we have to look at well if it comes down to marketing all these things that we're doing we talked a little bit about that at
039the board retreat that will be something we have to do once this place is done and all the things that we're doing are implemented then it's do how does this number compare to last year and do they have to apply every year if they're going to these are new applications and how is this compared with this compared to last year. Remember last year? And I do think it's important to look at their currently attending school too. Some of some of these students that are applying like for ninth grade um as we look at it some aren't current schools like eighth grade, right? We have a couple that are in the virtual school already. So, um we we see some of these applications are are individuals that have never chosen like now we do have some
040that are here. Those to me are the more concerning like what's going on. We're not I I like the idea. We we'll have some um we'll create a kind of a a questionnaire that we can try to find some themes on what does that look like. So, We'll ask some questions and then have some uh themes for you by I would say by the June meeting by the June 24th we'll be able to have a really good kind of feel what's happening. Is that online or is that it's a portal for to DPL? Okay. So, we don't have any control over so we can't add our just not giving them the form. Yeah, we can't say no. No, we can't apply other places. So, so yes, but we can't add an additional form. That would
041be a survey as to why. No, but we can give a consistent message that we'd welcome you back, right? And we have addresses. We could, you know, we could create a survey that automatically goes out. Um, does that come with email for parents when they give it that they provide it? So, but you know, surveys are how many going to respond? I I we've always felt like phone calls are a better way because you get that touch that soft touch there. said last week that starts at 11 even though the district around us have and that's another place where between youth apprentichip and our industry 4.0 I know we have a we have a state recognized program that's won awards. We in a way, you know, that is being marketed as this really great opportunity.
042We've had students that said, "Hey, we want to go." And then after they look at it, they see they actually have a better opportunity here of staying at their own school, having industry recognized credentials, working with local employers, getting college credits. Um, but it's again the thing of marketing, right? That looked like the new shiny object. We should do that when we actually have a chance to talk to the kids. None of them, but other districts don't have those same options. So, they're seeing more enrollment districts that don't have it. I wondered about the two and n that are because I know there was some like chatter like if you're going to do rock academy and sports, you have to go n I haven't ever heard say they're actually doing it. I've just heard express
043that the problem was sports and so then if they're like getting wind of that then yeah we have to by the end so yeah so not the data we want to see um but something that's we've talked about we have a plan we're gonna um we'll come back with some more data okay um our board meeting dates. So, we are changing our board meetings to the fourth Monday of the month, unless the fourth Monday is a holiday, then it's going to be the third Monday. Correct. That's what we've decided so far. So, we're still trying this out, but that's that's the plan right now. Yep. So, June, what's that going to give us? June 23rd. June 23rd. Yes. Oh, that's in yourformational items. Yep. Okay, got it. So, we have moved down to Perfect. Good.
044Um, so yes, um, our next board meeting is June 23rd. Um, our July one will be the 28th. Um, and our August one should be the 25th. And then really where the fourth uh, Mondays don't work is Christmas, right? December it's a little bit uh very and Thanksgiving might no was it Christmas is the only one and and possibly Memorial Day. Yes. Are the two that that so those might move to the December and May. Yeah. We'll see how spring break. Yeah. So, so if you attend every month, you'll know when the next and we'll we'll we'll have we'll look at the calendar ahead. This is something we want to do permanently. We'll have all the board meetings posted ahead of time. So, we're not saying when is it next month. You'll have the full
045calendar of that. So, we figured we'll get through June, July, um um August, and then we can kind of go from there. by the annual meeting. That'd be a good time to to plan out the rest of the years for So, um I two things. First of all, I did have our legislative breakfast today, so we got to talk to our politicians. That's where um I was told um by our people in Madison that they fully expect to have a state budget passed by July 1st. I find that's remarkable um since I haven't seen any of that happening, but they there there's a lot happening behind the scenes. So, um just as kind of an update for the board, uh contracts for teachers have to go out May 15th and like we do every other
046year, um those contracts went out without the raises um on to the pay scale because we don't put that on there till we know what happens for all of our other Everyone knows we hold on raises until we know what our budget is to make sure we have a balanced budget for. So if that happens before July 1st, that allows us to tell everybody raises and we can start those raises July 1st when our new calendar, our new um you know calendar starts here. Um the other thing structured uh adventure. I'm playing around with two different either structured adventured or structured play. Um there's some really cool things um we're working with is there's a lot of science around especially in elementary the need for our students to to move more to get outside more
047to to do some things. So as a district we're in the final stages um of revitalizing our um our wall a rock climbing wall. Um, if you go to any like kind of cool adventure place, uh, they have these things called autoblayers where students can climb up and it it it lets them climb up. It helps them climb and do those type of things. Those will be in place by September 1st. Um, and we're adding a extra BIAD class into all of our classes in elementary that will give our students an opportunity to get outside, um, use some of the walking paths we have outside. um extra play time, possibly use the lake, trying to do some things that get our students more connected. Um we have some extra horsepower in FIED. We actually have
048an intern teacher that's going to be coming in that's kind of a co-op uh FIAD teacher that's going to take these and it's a really cool thing. So, our kids get more structured play and adventure. Um, our classroom teachers get a little extra prep time once every two weeks or so that they get an extra hour to get their stuff ready in the classroom and it's getting our kids out. There's just so much science around I love our technology and our screen time and all this other stuff. We are going to um give our students time to put the screens down and do something fun. Um, I was listening to a comedian and and I've told some of you this and when I was a kid, one of my buddies always had a broken arm
049or a broken leg or had somebody because we're climbing on stuff or doing this. We don't have that anymore now. We don't want our kids to get hurt, but I think we've bubble wrapped our students too much. Um, so now we have actually one of the best rock climbing walls in in the area according to um it's two stories high and all these other things. So, we want kids to climb. We want them to do those things. Um, we're looking at a more of an outdoor um, playground that's just like logs and things like that. And I'm in talks and I'm going to be meeting with um, a company that may do some things to actually bring some of that activity into the classrooms. Um, but I'm not going to say too much about that
050until the conversation. So, one of those things we're trying to do in elementary to to do a little bit differently than everyone else involves. So, the extra PE class for all the elementary grades, is that daily? It's in their daily schedule, their weekly. Right now, we're thinking one extra hour every other week kind of thing. So, they'll have their regular FIAD. They have their regular specials and that's every day and that will be no that'll be so in that twoe period there will be one day in that two weeks that your class will be gone for an hour and then they're going to be out doing these structured adventures. Okay. But do they have PE every day? They'll have PE. So no, they don't they don't have everything. They have it twice a week. Um,
051so we're and I just talked with Jen earlier maybe in class. She was saying she she likes for our littles the every other twice a week for 30 minutes. Um, the older she'd rather have them for a walk through period for like an hour. Um, and so that would be once a week for an hour. I have to talk to her a little bit more. I think we're at like a tipping point with our where we need 120 minutes of literacy in order to get through all the components that are required. Our new math curriculum that we want to get through all that day, right? Oh, no. It's a day two hours of each of those a day. Um so one is based on the law of founding. So it's like reading and writing and
052then the curriculum it's broken up with like some of it is even science pieces into it. So it's really integrated and even the ELA integrated. So you're getting more of these I would say life skills in these orformational skills. So I just it's tricky with your special you want to have time. That's why I might say every day that we don't have time to do that. But a goal to be more active. So when they do 120 minutes of math, it's not just that all the time. So they're like up and moving and doing something just to do that. Oh, no. No, it's not it's not not we do a lot with different groups and different things. So we understand students intentions are very different. So I think when we think of what reading instruction
053was when we're kids that's not what looks like um there has to be you get you know a little bit of direct instruction, a little bit of hands-on, a little bit of group work. Those things are rotating. A lot of them like you can have their little white and they're spelling words which is really cooling sounds. They're learning how to sound. It's very you should come in. I wouldn't do it right now as we head into the end of the year. They're doing such a great job. So, just because we're breaking down the school day, I just want to understand a little more. So, how often do elementary students have recess? Um, well, all of them have two recesses a day. Two per day. Yeah. And the the one from the teachers because teachers plan
054one of the recesses themselves. Some are in the morning and some are in the afternoon depending on what works best for the classroom. Um the lunchon is about I think 20 minutes I think it's about another teachers plan them like they plan the time like they don't plan the recess right they plan they just gota Although we do have them teach some games at the beginning of year just to kind of get it started. So the recess the teachers are planning. How long is that? Um usually it can it's different like for the older kids it's usually like 15 to 20 minutes. The younger is maybe 20 25. It takes a little bit to get with all their clothes and all that. So this this is a like 120 minutes of math from ELA is
055that they've increased that. So you're stuck within the confines of what the state is directing you to do. So the state approved um curriculums that we could use. Now the element younger elementary you have longer times like the prek well I would say like three in order to develop when you get to four and five it can be like 90 minutes. I know. At first it seemed like a lot, but then that just feels like so much time. I think you have to come and experience it because it's it it's it's a different feel to this especially with the CLA and you know it's you're you're learning science, right? So you're learning a new science factor, you're learning something about social It's it's reading and we've talked about a couple times. It's it's reading and
056social studies and science integrated so that the student is actually learning other topics while they're learning to read. It's not the segmented you're going to learn to read and we're going to do parables and poems and then you're going to learn social studies and then you're going to learn science. The integration of it is is the piece that is taking this to the next level and allowing these things that let us looking at well you know since we're since we're reading about science and learning about science and doing those things what does that do for our science we don't have it we don't have it siloed as just science it's part of how we learn and I think I invite anybody to come in next year and see how it goes and how it goes
057I think you'd be very amazed I mean I think that I can see that kindergarten I think is way too struct but like first grade I guess I think that writing or like reading and writing about third grade I would feel like there's science that if a student isn't reading that level right so we got these numbers of how many people don't read very well like how well are they getting the science how teachers Anyone else? You have any questions? I just wanted to ask um the structured adventure. Um so you're also this is an addition to the recesses and the gym time that is already there, right? You're adding this every other week and then you're already having these recesses and gym time twice a week and it should feel different than you know
058if I had we do how to play games, how to do that. There's still that. This is something we're trying to do has more of an um uh conservation outdoor feel to it. So, um trying to get students away from screens and connect more to to mother nature. And if it goes well, would would it be a possibility to incorporate it in more often or you just that's where you're so limited by all these other curriculum things that you have to get in, right? Like every week, you know, can't do it every week because of that, right? I think everything is kind of, you know, it's there. It comes down to the old adage, right? Is is culture and and and you look stuff. If if we're teaching students, but they're not getting it because
059they don't feel like the culture is there for them, if it's too much, um, and we need to do more things like this, I think this is always a balance. Um, what we need, um, I've been going down a lot of rabbit holes, especially with our boys, right? Like schools, if you look at it across the nation, I think are more set up for girls to be successful than boys because boys are, they want to be more, they want to get out. So, I think we have to keep looking different opportunities and how different students learn to to make sure you do it because when it comes down to it the ultimate thing is at the end is you know there's a place the policy that we passed tonight in the state of Wisconsin is
060saying you don't move on to fourth grade if you can't read a third grade reading public right that's high stakes for a eighty old that's that that's scary to think the state of Wisconsin's telling us you can't move on to fourth grade until you read now's that we And there's a reason that would happen, but um I don't think K, two, and three has been more high stakes than it is now. So um we need to make sure it's fun that kids are reading. I think we're doing it. You can see how my kids came off of reading plans already with the things that we're doing. So um and and that data will never be more accessible than what we have with Next Path and the ways that we're we're having our different systems talk.
061Um what we should do that at the next board meeting is show how next path how parents will be a partner in this learning. They can see how their students are progressing on a regular basis and it's no longer need for report cards. Um if if their student has a reading plan, they're going to be able to see their student growing as as we're doing this. So um there is the science and the technology is there and I really feel like we're bringing all those things together to to really one of the better products around when it comes to I don't tell if we're right on this but I do I do feel strongly about the team I know anyone else is there a motion to adjurnn Katie is there a second Chris all those
062in favor please I oppos. Motion carries. What's that? Oh, yeah. One hour. Exactly. Look at that.