001e e e walk down the hallway did we switch spots all right we're ready to go all right I'll call the meeting to order it's agenda date time and location we're properly announced thank you for coming tonight we will start off with the approval of the minutes of the regular meeting of February 17 2025 is there a motion to approve not who is that King there a second a second Chris any uh Corrections discussion all those in favor please say I I opposed motion carries next we have the payment of the bills is there a motion to approve uh for the month of February the amount of 1 million 50, 62911 so Chuck is there a second I'll second is that Ry okay any questions I didn't get any questions were there any other questions
002I have a question on the cash summary okay I ask that one now so just more curiosity the grant for peer review mentoring I'm just wondering who that's from and more specifically how that's used what what is the peer review mentoring model is that that's the grant that uh we're doing for our new teachers right for peer Ming which one is um we used it last so we had we were given a grant uh two years ago actually um this was one of the last things that Mindy did is applied for this grant way for us to Mentor our new teachers um and Becky through this grant we kind of revamped our new teacher mentorship done some uh new things with it and uh it was paid for by a grant I I believe it
003it's like C of7 had threw this out there there's a couple schools together on it yeah we're we're co-op with a couple other schools with there s's actually anything you want to talk about the P mentoring Grant how's it going mentoring I think it's going well okay we we had a lot of new teachers this year so it's tough making you know Finding enough people to Mentor all of them but when I touched base with the new teachers they really like randomly they feel like they've been supported so and then just another question that um PT and parentheses Sherman I just that didn't look for me to me so I wonder what it was taxes so we'll get that every from somebody they'll have extra thank you that's all any other questions all those in
004favor please say I I oppose motion carries anything else on the cash summary no I think I'm good to unless there's any other questions we have a donations yes couple just really cool things that uh we continue to to have first of all again thank you to Tommy over at the pizeria um because we couldn't do an open house and things weren't quite put together as they were uh we did a modified open house on uh what was it March 4th right and kept people in the new areas and and Tommy donated the ice cream for that again so uh thank him for providing that sweet treat for our kids we had so much I think we gave some away even uh at school the next couple days so uh he went over and above
005what we needed seconds uh thank you to all American hbac uh uh this family just uh came with $1,100 and said hey we know there's a band trip to Disney if there's any family that need a little extra help here please uh use this because we want to make sure nobody doesn't go um because of that so all fantastic is that and then um donors choose for Mrs Anderson I think that's supposed to be $200 for classroom is it just 20 $20 okay there we go that was an easy donor's Tuesday I don't know how what you get for $20 for Essentials maybe pencils Kleenex Kleenex oh that's there you go well thank you everyone um comments from the public none tonight okay that takes us to referendum discussion anything on referendum but I will
006have oh okay yeah we'll send it you know updates right now you got to walk by you can see our old high school library is now in demo mode uh reie and I after our meeting uh our new library is coming together we don't have carpeting but there's paint some ceiling the grid is up and some ceiling tiles so if you want to wander down and kind of see once you can start the the places are starting to come together so I'm just going to say it again um every week we have somebody new moving so right now Lee and the IT department is in the process of moving there's nothing better than moving and having your regular job at the same time um but we're doing that um by the end of this week
007or when we get back Jamie UT Tech is going to be moving second grade is going to have to move so uh just thank you to everyone as being flexible and just helping us get through this year we will get there and it's all worth it in are these temporary moves or moving into a finished space no these are moving so we can first first grade we moved two weeks ago because the sewer is under one of those and we want to get into that over spring break um and some of these moves we're doing now because we were worried about summer being too tight like three months isn't enough to get done the whole Elementary Middle School so once about April 15th the corridor that goes along this way down the elementary by the
008element the old elementary office and the corner up to second grade where that bathroom is that's actually going to be done almost before we leave for school which will make sure that the the restoration over summer they're hoping they're going to be able to hand it back to us the first week of August to really give us time to move in so we're doing some adjustments on the fly to try to make sure that we have a little easier move in than we did this last SE so like my move is permanent yeah your move is permanent though yeah some are permanent I guess permanent yeah like Mrs Utch that's that's temporary second grade is temporary first grade was temporary um but we're trying to do things Becky and I took first grade the entire
009first grade skating to give the staff a little bit of time to set up so watching a bunch of first graders take around and skating at Blue Line just the little things we're trying to do to make everyone's life as I want to say as good as possible under than consider under we going through so yeah working on a field trip for second as well can have that time I appreciate Mike being we're finding ways okay anything else on referendum all right building reports okay so we are doing something a little bit different for building reports we see a couple different people in here we're trying to get more voices instead of just the administrators so part of the U building reports this month and going forward we're going to try to find uh some
010people that can actually share what's happening in those areas so I don't know if you want to kind of I know you guys are going to kick it off and then you can introduce from there so go ahead perfect so last week U the first week of March we had re cross random Jamie Utch organized all that it was a construction theme so it was super fun they did um they dressed up like construction workers one of the days wore bright colors another day um one of the days Mike took us the classrooms on a tour of the new spaces and they get to see that and then one of the days they wrote thank you letters to all the construction workers during their character ad classes so I'm just really special how Jamie has
011really used this opportunity to teach students a little bit more about what it takes to build a building and connect it to reading which is really cool um starting um this week we're doing the ases web testing again and the forward and I think Middle School is also testing this week with forward as well so not only is Lee Moving he's also supporting us in our technology pieces as we begin our online testing so it's always always something but just um excited to see all the progress that the students have made all right so stem Minos this uh came out of the sixth grade stem class and so Cindy Barber hosted what our first stem osity where they created different kits that then they had on display and for sale for elementary up through sixth
012grade and they were really cute they created bird feeders and um frogs that hopped and it was a lot of different little um neat things so it was really a lot of fun but that's just a part of the work that Cindy and Debbie are doing uh leading into the stem and the Robotics and the Lego challenge where we're really trying to get more in the computer science and the coding and things like that so we wanted to feature this month uh our robotics team where when last month they uh had competed at Brookfield and did very well so I am going to send it over to Debbie and the middle school students uh out a couple of the portfolios that as part of competition and we only have a part of the team here
013um our complete team consisted of Tucker yod Ro Thomas Jackson Beth and then we have Nicholas dirs and there was Eli message Liam message Levi s which is here and Jackson Spady and then we had four adults that um mentored or helped out with the team it was Hannah Pratt Taylor Thomas mron and myself and then we also had sponsors um to help us um purchase not just the robot here Spike and but also um each team gets a field it's a 12 by 12 field and we just brought a part of it to do our demonstration but we were able to get a grant through Google and DPI to get that and we also had a donation from allamerican agent all right guys so in the beginning of your season you start off with
014a kit robot and throughout the season you're supposed to add things that will help you do better in competition and for us whenever we were clipping these blocks onto here we had an issue with our robot like the front of it would lift into the air whenever we're trying to put blocks on and it would tip backwards so we added these spikes which give it a little bit of weight and that's also how it's got its name Spike we also have this Spike on the bottom which is what we use to hang our robots hanging the robot is one way that you um gain points at the end of the competition if your robot is hanging then you get more points and whether it's on the low bar or the high bar all right so
015and then [Laughter] took leave I I mean there were three guys that were really trying to learn how to drive and then they picked who the best driver was to actually drive for competition takes a while to get the hang bit you have anything else to say we bu about the robot we have an extendable arm exed it's extended so after the robot we have the coding portion of FTC there is the autonomous coding and the teleop coding the autonomous code is where the robot is pro uh pre-programmed to um accomplish some tasks that you have to do for example RS drops a one of said blocks into a bucket and it scores some points and um this is just the robot does it on its own you start it up and it works and
016this is a 30 second period the start of game matches um so after that there is the 2 minute long T op period which is where the robot is programmed to be able to be controlled by a controller we are using an Xbox 360 controller and it's plugged into our drive right and going through coding there's been a lot of trial and error trying to fix some things but after a long time we've done many things like for example in the Tey op coding we've managed to change the speed of the arm so that it can go up and down faster but still be controllable and then there's been many other occasions where we've had to fix some things in the code like that but Mr uh after we finished coding and designing our robot
017we moved on to competitions our competition start off as uh making it to the buildings we almost right away have to go to judging there are two steps to that the first step is going through size and arm length to make sure that it's all within uh competition uh qualities so that way nothing hurts anyone and then the second part is we bring it onto the field to make sure that nothing wrong will happen out there uh once we finish that we head to our table and set that up during competitions we will have two people set at the our table to answer questions from other teams or from judges once we have finished setting everything up almost right away we will usually have judging judging is kind of like what we're doing here today
018uh we will usually have around two to three judges who will listen to who we are what we do how we made this and how we reach out to the rest of our community once judging is finished we usually have a meeting with the rest of the teams to figure out matches uh on average it's five to six matches per team it's a round robin style tournament 2v2 uh two robots on each side sometimes you could be allianc with someone next match you could be against them uh by the end of the around 20 matches total you will have the top six teams pick six other partners for the state qualifiers once you finish uh picking you will be stuck with your alliance partner that they have chosen for the rest of the day uh
019during that time you will have much faster and shorter well not shorter but much faster happening matches uh by the end of it uh only one team wins it all and they're the team who gets go to state our furthest that we have made it is third by the end of pre-qualifiers and fourth overall so this year because this is the first year we've had this this FTC robotics we've done the first Lego League which is this bik robots for a couple years but um I think the team this in their first year really learned how to work as a team how to make decisions with including everybody and learned a lot on as far as programming putting it together um our goal for next year they'll get uh the parts that they'll be able
020to build another robot through the Google Grant they'll give us the money to buy like a second one where they can put different wheels on make more modifications we're hoping to get more more kids involved and more um educate the community and maybe get even some more sponsors you guys have any questions for them or so how many people are actually in the team that's competing from our school was this year we're hoping there's eight students we have three four mentors and then we have the robot we have Miss mron Miss Hannah and then tayor did you guys did any of you guys do the LEGO League before this year yes most of us I have about three and a half years experience with How would how did that help you with this uh it's
021a lot easier coding it's just uh it's similar coding except the code is still a lot more advanced and different it allows you to problem solve much better because you understand the coding that actually works well with this robot so that way you know oh this is happening wrong you have experience with those problems and probably the presentation because you have to present in the other one also just in a different way and the last part about that is um this the thing we couldn't do this year in coding is called JavaScript it's basically where you do almost the same thing as blockx it's just you're writing them or typing them onto a script for commands instead um we weren't able to do JavaScript because we didn't have the right platform to do it which
022is called Android Studio but we got that way too late in a year and it was already at the point in time where it's just like it's not really working anymore so it's just C what we have yeah next year we also hope to start earlier because we'll have the materials earlier and every year it's a new theme and a new um field so kind of the Bas same basic ideas of grabbing or putting things in but it's a different field so you have to reprogram you have to re strategize any other questions you have anything like this in the high school level then like once you guys are done with school him talk about that he's gon get to go starting uh freshman year up to I believe senior senior uh there's first robotics
023competition you build everything from scratch uh every year there's a brand new kind of competition like uh FTC you mainly clip things put things in buckets things like that F FRC uh you can end up shooting basketballs with your robot uh that's more at the county level Random Lake doesn't it's a lot of times where schools will combine FC we're talking about $30,000 a year for the cost of the robot FTC actually does go up to high school so it starts at middle it starts at middle um seventh grade grade and it will go all the way to 12 so we they actually competed against some high school teams that were doing it as well we do have some two really good f partc team clubs in the state U one in Falls one in
024um two I think North and South work together for it um so we do have two good teams that are there in this they are looking for a third but just the cost and everything is kind of kind of crazy so I they're talking from possibly see if they're going to be buing this stuff up so we'll see but I know in the past quite a few years ago we had a at least one student go up and work with Robo Riot up in shid ORS um and do their what their SE we had two we have two um actually um Sydney Barber son oh yes yes that's right he did it too so but yeah so CU like we've been doing for almost 10 years now I started my first or second so what
025happens to after yeares he stay alive that we'll be keeping him as yeah we because you know the robot truthly Hannah and I buil did at a training next year we're not the only thing they're showing us at the trainings is how to use the new wheels and some other parts they're going to rebuild a brand new one I hope and probably use Parts off of it probably use the 3D printers and stuff to build some others and so already these guys have learned like they had to learn how to crimp the wires and that in fact um when we were practicing just before here one of the wires broke and they quickly fixed it so I don't want to get too far the weeks but this is really interesting to me um so does
026each group each you know team gets what what are the basic parts you get to build your robot I mean this that I mean it's basically what it was is what Google bought for us a you can go on there's a company called Andy mark and um they sell kits that are based and they're not the only ones who do it this Andy Mark's usually one of the better ones but they sell a kit that this is robot you build Bas that will complete the challenge but then lots of teams will add to it or 3D print parts to it like um we have a very basic claw there were some um teams that 3D printed claws that had they were longer clenchers and so you can add to that robot there's also teams that
027fully fabricate their entire robot they don't use a kit at all so really all there is is basically you have to fit it within a certain size and it has to do there's a whole set of rules but the height limit and limit weight length limit weight limit um there was a team that was all girls that they same type of robot but they 3D printed a lot of their parts so they were pink you know I mean which I thought that was kind of cool so it was like we're not we weren't required to use this kitb it's just this was you know first year easy way to get started next year we're going to look at expanding and that's what we're hoping to get some other people on the team that maybe have
028a little bit more experience with 3D printing that they can contribute we're hoping to get some people that are more with um like make our portfolio a little better maybe make even a website so that we can educate because part of the judging is not just when they do their presentation their portfolio part of it is sustainability and part of it is Outreach on how did you Community involved what did you do for the community and that also I will say next year we are going to be building robot from scratch so hard next year we're hoping for way more participants so this won't replace the Lego stuff it's no no this is just the next step up um I it'll be interesting to see where it goes because you can start in seventh grade
029and so I I think we'll be losing some people to go here they have to do both when does the Lego can they start that um well both can start in in August September but the F competition is depending on the date that we pick is November December where theirs is um actually start so they're hoping one of the outreaches they can do is to help Mentor the f starts starts High element like we had it starts it starts with fourth grade but we did not take we took the kids to competition didn't have them compete just so they got the experience they still built a robot they still program the robot they still came up with the problem and their presentation we just didn't have them compete so that they could just go and
030experience it because it is it can be a lot also I will probably say I'm pretty sure fifth grade when you're going them like compete compete with the rest of the older kids uh next year I'm going to see what I can do to try to join L and also try to menture Fallout but I'm probably going to be sticking more to FTC yeah so would sponsorships allow for more upgrades to the robot or is there like a cap there's no cap there's no cap I mean um I I know there's probably a good five other people that are playing to join the team that would make it 13 k 13 kids with one robot so yeah there's no cap also I will say going a little bit back to FRC the F FRC robots
031they're not small they're like this but five to six times bigger yeah they're huge they're about we High when they're on the what's the cost of a kit like that or just the B our cost with again card cost came to be about full with everything with the kit and uh the fueld just over three three to four was that our cost with the total cost total cost we didn't we really didn't pay anything through Grant yeah like Google like Google paid for it was about three grand um and then another which was really nice so we were able to we did a good job with this okay I touched it to help build it to begin with and I tou Rob up the rest of the time so which was good great job yes
032it's a lot of fun you got a lot out of it like your ability to come out here and do a presentation like this is amazing and I've bet a lot of kids your age do right Lear bual things that'll help you so much in the future you I have no idea what this is doing for you right now I'll expand your world phenomenal also I will say um if we have the like full team of eight people here it's like probably one part per person in the presentation it's a decently long presentation and after we get the presentation done you're just like oh how lovely we get to go back to our table and do whatever and chill nope judges come around to your table they ask you more questions two people have to
033stay at the table at once it's almost like a dolphin if I may add on to the F FRC FTC part uh next year since I'm planning to do FRC thankfully uh it's later in the day than FTC so I'll be able to balance both F FRC and FTC to help these guys next year learn how to code JavaScript learn how to make the robot and all that F FRC is actually just started compe about probably about ago so they start way later they go through till the end of the school year well thank you very so yeah well done yeah Jackson's a speaker yeah next we have a really great video these are all the Cal boxes that we collected from both elementary and middle school and then Pam and the Middle School leadership
034team created a video um it gets sent in um and maybe you want to share a little bit more I think theirs so this is a third year where we've done the cereal challenge so uh you collect cereal boxes and then you create a domino type uh um piece with it so and you can submit it and you could potentially earn some things we we haven't earned anything but we always have fun putting it together so we wanted to share the serial challenge video with you for ask or full they're full because then they get donated to the food pantry so between elementary and middle I think we collected um about 275 cial boxes um and then they put together the design and did the did the video it took them a couple hours yeah
035to you know to get it all to yeah go just right what level was well uh Elementary Middle collected them together but then that was the middle school student leadership that did the the um video put that together mhm all right so moving on to our strong Community connections we have uh Jake Frio here to talk a little bit about our start college now and youth apprenticeship [Applause] about four or five years ago we used to have college now students have have approv by the board that changed so we thought we just make it part of this is really where our connections start um and J together talk a little bit about absolutely um few years ago we brought scope meetings to the people Services Department really being intentional with every student meeting with every
036family every student making sure that we know exactly what they want to do even from the eighth grade level and we are putting them in classes electives and making sure they have a pathway as freshmen right from the GetGo that being said we've really started to grow our Star College now program and E apprentiship program within our Star College now program we have a partnership with our Tech schools Marine Park LTC and uh MATC locally and that breaks down really our five categories of where kids are taking classes at next year Health Science the trades Criminal jce ice business and then psychology are big ones and with that I added in every looking at every student that's taking those classes every one of those students has taken what we offer here at Random Lake High
037School within that pathway and if they haven't taken it yet they'll be taken it simultaneously next year with their Star College now courses we actually also have an early college credit applicant too within architecture uh he'll also be uh potentially working as a ya with quases construction uh that was a connection that we had uh previously uh from years past when we first started doing youth apprenticeship and I I gave them a call and said hey we got a kid that wants to do architecture they had a great call last week and we're looking to hopefully get them connected uh for full-time apprenticeship on top of the college credit program through UD Milwaukee looking at uh about 28% of our upper classmen that will be taking a start college now early college credit program which
038is phenomenal looking at our youth apprenticeship program there again looking at the career Pathways uh I broke it down down by class uh class 2026 and class 2027 looking at 49 applicants going into next year uh which is great we've got a lot of new companies within our wheelhouse um I say Rolodex some of the kids don't understand Rolodex these days but um really I want to touch on our Health Sciences we've got 10 students four of which with their CNAs two of which that are working on their CNAs I was talking to Dr trimberger the other day and I sent the email out within 10 minutes to three Hospital hital that we're working with were already emailing me back wanting to do interviews with some of these kids um so that'd be pretty phenomenal
039for some of these seniors that are looking to get into the health science uh field and then looking at manufacturing and transportation and dist distribution and Logistics uh we've got a couple kids there that have uh their second year of apprenticeship uh they're doing so well that the companies want them back for a second year next year and like I was telling this McDonald before we started here today some of these kids are enjoying it some of these kids are like it and but they're also realizing maybe this might not be something I want to do the rest of my life we'd rather them learn that now versus after they're graduated uh they can take that those notes and take those Lessons Learned in those different uh career Pathways and apply them elsewhere after they
040graduate looking at our current data uh so you compare 49 applicants this year to 44 last year right now we are near the top of Shaban County of all high schools uh even the big ones uh with the amount of applicants we have and those that didn't get placed in specific apprenticeship uh placements this past year were placed into work experience uh Outlets that were similar to what they want to do in a pathway uh so really of those 44 applicants I would say 77% were in some type of work-based learning experience getting them hands-on experience again they're taking the courses here freshman sophomore junior year that they need within that pathway and we're giving them that kind of push out of the nest uh supporting them in their careers what they want to do
041after high school any questions on the data at all Cent data did you have ranking did you say something about among this St or the area among the area within yep uh we are near the top of all Shan County high schools with the amount of applicants for youth apprenticeships and then if you looked at us per capita we are right up there with the amount of kids that are actually getting placed percentage wise and I would beg to to bet that we're probably towards the top of the number of students graduating with credits I mean what what the high school's done to to really focus in on individual students in their interest and then cater around that is pretty remarkable is there a set number of hours per week that involv particip it's going
042to be dependent I mean they can't work more than 30 um but the the employers every situation is different every circumstance is different there's going to be students who are athletes and who are in extracurriculars that can only work so many hours a day which is totally acceptable um there's also kids that are not athletes they're not extracurricular uh students they're working most of the morning if not into the afternoon coming into school for those couple of classes they need for requirement for grad situation so it all depends on the situation um and again it depends on the specific career pathway as well some of them are doing work that you know can only be done in the mornings early mornings on farms um some of them are doing work that is done in the
043afternoons or evenings um so it really varies they have to get 450 hours total between June 1 and May 31st for it to count as uh a full year of uh apprenticeship some of these apprenticeships they start June 1 others will start at the end of August early dependent on that company mhh and it's paid too which is nice these kids are learning life lessons they're they're putting some money in their pockets um and uh save them for college I hope 450 is too hour that's where the work based learning comes in and that can be how many hours that really yeah so with with work based learning UH 60 hours uh gets them that half credit um and if they get 120 hours they get a full High School Credit it's really about being
044intentional um I've said it before I want to make sure that our kids are int electives that they want to be in um I don't want to put them in classes just because it's an Open Class or there's an open block there I want to make sure that they're taking classes that really pertain to their interests we have three kids right now that are education bound or you know in uh um in the educational field uh two are in the elementary and one is in the middle and they're just doing a phenomenal job in fact it just made me chuckle the other day I had the senior uh Tucker he's like uh Mrs McDonald I need go Guardian so I can be monitoring all of these kids right now and we're gonna give it um
045so they're really doing a phenomenal job and enjoying what they're doing you know sitting here I think one of the things would be great for May is to have some of these students come in and kind of present their experience it's amazing when you get to see um our students at put 450 hours or even 60 90 hours explain their experiences to you sometimes it's hard to tell where they're a high school student or a professional in that field with this kind of experiences so I might be a good absolutely thank you have a comment I think it's just really outstanding what you do um I mean my daughter is a freshman and she's taking a CL me I guess I never would have thought of that like I always thought it was like a
046junior senior thing which my junior is taking some too but you know as a freshman I'm like wow that's pretty outstanding and then like you said just let them Branch off and figure out what direction they want to go with things so all the opportunities offering thank you thank you and if you guys want to say something one of the things that we're trying to get to is engagement right um if you look at high schools are historically especially for boys a place where students aren engaged right they don't see it really meaning anything to them you guys want to talk anything about engagement over the last couple years since I mean overall it's the students feel heard um the ones that come into my office they they ask you know I don't want to
047sit in a classroom for it was 80 minutes last year and even 60 minutes we know from studies the attention span of a high schooler is no more than 15 minutes um so hearing them listening to them and then finding ways to make it happen for them um they feel heard and they know that people have their back I had a discussion with a a young man today who's doing a ya plus welding and it was a totally different conversation versus what the conversation I had with him last year just he's matured an adult he's making adult decisions um and it's just it's great to see I would say they they feel really empowered now to be able to to try things just like you're were saying Amy and also to be thinking outside of
048the box I think they thought they had their mindset on here but now they see the world is much bigger um and that's been exciting to see thank you all right and then last but not least just wanted to do some student acknowledgements so we had our Big East All Conference come in um unfortunately we only had one uh recog this year but that was girls basketball uh meline and second Team all conference so well done to meline and then Mr Wills he last week he had taken a group of nine students to the Junior Achievement Titan challenge um in OSH so they had a a fabulous time here and we have some other uh competitions coming up uh Mrs raty Whitney will be taking uh kids that'll be going on to the leadership conference
049so next month I'll have the results what they come back with so we got a lot of good stuff going on there with our students uh we did not have any board committee meetings this month and then that takes us into ADR so I I did want to start off the AGR piece um I've gotten a couple questions from some board members with that and there are some mistakes in here that has been that Sandy and I have talked about that uh will be fixed before we submit this but one of the things we're really struggling with with this report alog together is with act 20 and how we you how we did assessments at the beginning how we're forced to do assessments now with act 20 some of this data this was we're trying
050to live in an Old World in a new world act 20 is new legislation the AGR hasn't really caught up to that yet so as you're seeing some of these we're trying to just do our best of living in Two Worlds at one time so as you see we started in Fall using exact path so exact path was an assessment that we've been using for about five years I think right four or five years um it was our first Universal screener um and exact path was something that students took the assessment and then there was curriculum that was attached to their assessment as kind of an intervention well we've been doing that kindergarten through 8th grade and then the law request ired us to use as web starting this year but as web we didn't
051really get that when did we start getting to assess as in the winter so January so we had to test with one assessment and then come back and test with another assessment and as you can see those aren't Norm the same so some of the data was coming off and it really kind of made this uh a worst case scenario with that so some of this right now I ask you just to kind of let's wait when we get to Spring and we will have winter as web with spring as web and the things that we're doing with that is it we're going to start seeing the growth in a hard work that's being done in the reading and as well as as the math as we keep going so I don't know if we
052want to spend more time on this but I just wanted to kind of throw that out there because um we're in kind of a this is a a foot in both worlds right now with with this yeah it's drastically different from last years I so the correction is that related to in mathematics that the students have a personal reading plan it doesn't seem to match the know so that's part of the ACT 20 is you have to have a a reading plan starting this year in math for math for no that would be for reading because under all the math categories one of the um it's just probably straight from yeah and there were some myths of of third grade being in kindergarten there's a couple other Corrections that need to be done as well
053so s's aware of those and are making those and do we know I know last year lowest was the same as I just want to I didn't understand the measurables so we have at risk lowest and then um bottom I think were the different categories so it just doesn't seem that it's consistent l language was that another thing that was picked up on the as far as Corrections sure you know exact path right so exact path did um oh no exact path and as web do bottom quartile and lowest quti like so the lowest quartile and the bottom quartile will mean the same thing but then the other way fast Bridge did like at risk instead of most that's not something we can compare very well okay so having a the whole time will help
054with that I think but but I think bottom and lowest is just like which way they're designing um so yeah the numbers are concern like I was concerned about the numbers I guess we'll have to wait and see what happens because we sets different bars like it's it's not very comparable but the copying and pasting in here that had things that didn't make any sense and like kindergarten reading outcomes for the people in third grade like I mean that sloppy like I'm I'm a little unhappy with the product we done is it coming back again then like is she going to Res this we can definely can we see it once it's been corrected y I just want to say like the a web overall is a lot more sensitive so we were anticipating and
055we use fast for the littles it's the 4K in kindergarten to give us like a baseline because we knew that Jamie is really involved with these literacy committees even state level and it was just known like games web coming in in mid year it's going to be hard UND distri you're going to see a large amount of students that are below that 25 percentile and so we use fastb because we thought we get closer to where as web would be but even exact P it's it's very different that as web is super sensitive we have decided to switch over A2 as a as a screener across the district next year for K8 because it will give us better data on what we need to improve on the students or where their gaps are we can
056support them you can't really get away from um adting yet because it does have that Gap growing capacity it's something they can do daily where as web isn't that type of program it's like a almost like a a mini forward you go in you see where the kids are at you can see where their gaps are and then you can plan instruction for that ad mum you still test for that and then they can work on their own path as well so that's how those two kind of play nicely together but yeah I mean the state is building it as they flight as well um am web was supposed to be out in in fall and it wasn't and by the time they had their contract agreement with the state it didn't get till winter
057so we've been kind of just scrambling and trying to make the best out of it um we feel very confident about the CK the curriculum that we're doing with it the assessment piece is just clunky right now so so yeah we will have better I would say we will have cleaner data when we get to the spring assessment and show what kind of we have what are our class sizes for these grade levels I know last year the kindergarten classes exceeded the 18 to one class size where are we at this year um so they would say that there's 25 students in those classes but some of those students are um in an alternative setting because of their High needs so I would say runs around 22 in those kindergarten classes with first and second
058grade what are we c um second at 33 so it's about 15 16 and I think kindergarten is closer to 40 so and what was first grade first gr about thank you any other questions um next Bob what the heck I know if anybody's deserved it I he certainly have 34 years thank you Bob can I tell a quick story oh sure so my youngest who's graduating this year Spencer his first word was Bob it was for Bob spaders Spader Spiel I was walking the halls and I was looking for Bob so I was calling his name Spencer hadn't said a word yet and all of a sudden right after I said Bob he said Bob does Bob know the story huh does Bob know he showed up SP um first day at kindergarten I
059think he was pretty proud so holding off for to graduate that's cool so very much thanks um next we have um professional staff resignations of Ruth blosi with 10 years for retirement and Daniel King with one year is there a motion to approve with uh many thanks for their years of service some that was Katie en okay any questions or discussions and both of them are going to work through the rest of the year um you know Ruth uh we may find some ways to to use her expertise on a more part-time basis subbing things like that for next year and Daniel thanks for his one year he's going back to where he graduated from to so he that's where he coaches football and uh basketball as well but he graduated from there and he
060lived in that area back to Bob is there anything special that he's getting any special award or any special plaque or anything like that we have a tradition that we give a bell it's a large Bell that uh you gets on your last day and then I guess all the retirees get together on the first day of school and then ring the bell so that's the tradition that we have in Random Lake here Plus at the last day we'll have to because Bob's some might be um the group comes together and then kind of does a like story about what does that individual mean pictures from maybe 34 years ago if we can find it things like that that are fun so there's a pretty pretty rich tradition on how we send people off here
061good oh are we hiring a new science teacher actually with this one uh looking at the numbers uh right now we aren't going to be hiring we won't be replacing Mr King so we've got two y we have two science to math to next year we're at our alltime lowest for enrollment at the high school but after that we'll start to slowly see an upswing so given the number of sections needed for next year um two science teachers needed so Natalie's doing all the bio science and ry's doing physics and and any other questions or discussion all those in favor please say I opposed motion carries um we need to appoint a delegate to wiia in the um for their annual meeting in the past we sent our activities director is there a motion to
062continue that and have Mr Miller represent it Katie is there a second second any questions or discussion I I have something I've heard some people talking about our conference and um a lot of the proo schools that are able to recruit students to play for their teams making our conference very difficult to compete in and is this something that at this meeting might be brought up as a discussion point so we just had Stephanie Hower at her back meeting on Friday and that's all of the public school superintendent and we spend half of our time talking about that so people are talking about it and there might be some discussion with discussion resolution discussion yes so there is there's it's been a discussion the last few years and it's I won't we we could spend
063a few hours on that but yeah it's a it is an interesting time in high school ATS that's for sure and just out of curiosity who how do you get on the whatever Thea are you appointed to that how do you serve like on the board yeah yeah yeah so waa is a nonprofit so they're a non-government agency that all the schools elect to be part of right um and then we we pay memberships but I don't I don't even know how much it is anymore um but then different School Personnel try to get on to their board of directors and their Board of Trustees and things like that so um it's one of the things that uh we haven't had anybody on there but there is the the new elections are going on right
064now and if you don't choose to participate with them then you're not able to participate in the playoffs and they probably have a posted list of their directors and who they represent yeah and they I think they're trying to do a nice job of having small schools medium schools large schools um it's it's there's a lot of different interests when you look at private schools public schools all be part of one conglomerate like that so yeah but no the concern is real any other questions or discussion all those in favor please say I I opposed motion carries that takes us to informational items okay um first of all I just want to put on board retreat I'll be sending out an email later on this week looking at possibly maybe that first week first week
065or two of May to do our board retreat same place kind of same time so look at the first two Mondays in May and let me know if either one of those work um next legislative breakfast very interesting times in the state of Wisconsin um found out today um as far as any kind of school budget that's going to come out um there is no appetite to submit a um Republicans in submitting their rebuttal budget to school until after the Supreme Court takes up four different uh things that are out there right now and the Supreme Court isn't probably going to touch anything until after the April election so once that's done we'll probably have a whole Scurry of things that are going to happen and then from there maybe we'll see a budget some
066think we'll get it by um July 1st others think it could be September or later so it's going to be one of those bium where we'll just kind of hold on we're going to try to let our staff know what's going on as we go forward and go from there but uh it's it's interesting times at least the state is flush with cash the arm wrestle is um do we give it back in tax relief do we give it back um to different entities like us and I think they're trying to compromise and find a place in Middle where we get some good tax release Le and also try to fund the two different school systems now because vulture schools and public schools are going to be two funding um budgets going forward it looks
067like so it's a like I said in add add some time and then in April remember um we won't have any new members but our board meeting in April is the last any uh questions can you just explain what you just said about fer schools um being funded that funding so so yeah so the if you remember when we do our annual meeting we always talk about what our mill rate is but then we talk about the mill rate that that our residents paid to send our students to a private school last year what was I forget what that number was it like 20 cents 20 I remember but it was you know a $0000 on a $100,000 home goes to private schools well a lot of the public schools have been putting that out
068there and saying here's our mill rate but here's the mill rate to send kids to V your schools so now uh now the conservative movement towards school choice wants to get that off of the public scrutiny and they want to call do something that's called decoupling which would make it a funded secondary budget in the state that's based off of a gross domestic product of our state so the thing that is again when it comes to schools I'll give you for instance for public schools they let's say they put a $100 million for special ed and they say we're going to fund special ed at 33% well once it gets to 100 million they start telling schools well we wanted to fund at 33 but really it's 28.5% so we get to split whatever money
069is out there what they're doing with vulture schools is they're saying you get I think it's is it 15,000 or 90% of what a student that has an IP needs and they're guaranteed that money so they're looking at funding two different school systems one they're promising one school system um a high school student that goes to a vulture school where we get 11,250 they get 12,500 and then for students that have IPS we still 12 something 12 something they're getting 15 plus so you're you're seeing this you're seeing this dichotomy of two different school systems being funded very differently under the ospice of this is less expensive when actually it's showing to be more expensive and the data is showing that we're truly private schools aren't educating more kids from public schools in public schools
070it's pretty static what we're doing is we're funding these students that were always there before um but now the state's picking up that cost so it's putting more money into education but not into public education so yeah like I said it's an interesting time it's it's something like if we really want to you almost need a whiteboard and if this is a topic we want to talk about at the board retreat I'd be happy to kind of dig into it is there any push back yeah that's why they're trying to decouple because if they decouple we wouldn't be showing it on our annual meeting anymore and it really just becomes a quiet budget item that that has a lot less scrutiny than what it is currently right now they give it to us with Aid
071it's on my October 15th Aid then there's also a note that says I have to take it off because they get deducted at the end of the year so they look like they're giving it to us but they we don't get it and it never went out considerably higher this year okay so stay tuned yeah all right that takes us into a close session board will go into close session as permitted under Wisconsin State statutes chapter 19 section 19 851 I to discuss a business donation matter board will move to a nearby classroom to conduct a closed session meeting this requires a motion first to go into close session make Chris second Amy this requires a roll votey Amy I vote Yes we are in close session thank you very much nice job Debbie but
072after we announced last month that they took third place everybody seems so interested like oh we should bring them here