001Just shine. >> And just a reminder I'm live streaming. No video. No video, just audio. All right, we'll go ahead and call our special meeting of the Wake County Board of Education to order. It is 4:02. And if you'll stand and say the Pledge. Pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Let the record show that all board members are present in person except Mrs. Jackson, who is on her way to meet us now. So, she'll join us shortly. We can begin this evening with our local school improvement council presentation from Courtney Tate Brady. All right, good evening, everybody. Um we're glad you're here. We are going to just go over
002um just kind of like the nuts and bolts of data and things of that nature. You have a handout in front of you um if you want to take notes or have questions, but we also have taken that same presentation and put it onto the board. So, nothing's going to be different. Sometimes it's just easier to look at this way. >> [clears throat] >> So, to start us out, um we're going to start with the negative, which is a down enrollment. That's natural across the whole county and in the state. This school year um we have 438 students. We did enroll somebody yesterday, so we have 439, so I'll take that as a win. Um but we have unfortunately steadily declined over the last several years. Um which is not new news to anybody, especially
003um in our district. Um positive things, this is something that we are probably the most proud about as our school is our attendance rate. Last year you guys were here in February, I believe, and we had really decreased our chronically absenteeism rate. So if you look here, I know it might look a little crazy to you. Terry Lynn Queen does a really great job of sending out a email every 20 days and letting us know where we are. So I did not have that really good data for the 23-24 school year, but something I want to bring to your attention is the end of the 24 school year our school was at 39.6% chronically absent, which is beyond insane when you think about the amount of kids that is. Last school year in November, we
004started working really diligently on our chronic absenteeism rate. That was really what we wanted to focus on first. And so last school year we finished at 36.5%. I am beyond thrilled to show you. If you notice all those numbers are green. We're sitting at 30.9% chronically absent. And if you look at the beginning and the first 60 days of school, we had decreased our chronic absenteeism rate down by 7%. We hit as low as 28.2% this year because sometimes I accidentally check Zoom West Virginia often cuz it makes me very excited to see the growth. Obviously day 100, that's sitting about that January snow day um life that we live. But overall you can see even at the end of the spring we're increasing as well. So we're super proud of that. If you flip
005to the other side of that page or the other side of the screen, I'm sorry, is our average daily attendance. Our ultimate goal is 92%. That is a lot harder to get to it seems like. We're decreasing by large amounts, but that daily attendance rate. So in the 23-24 school year we finished the year at 89.3. Last year we finished at 90.3 and we're up to 90.96. I'm a mathematician, [clears throat] I'm rounding that up, we're 91% of positive attendance. So we're going to take that as a win. Again, the goal is 92. One of the things that we have been doing is we mentioned this last year and we've continued it this year. It's our Mr. Potato Heads, our present potatoes. So we're still doing that. Our attendance team came up with a new
006one this year, it's called Viking. It's like Pokémon Go. It's like Viking Go. And they're these stickers. So if you come all five days in a row, we're trying to hit our chronic absenteeism kids, they get a sticker. And so they mapped it out for the rest of the school year, there were 10 stickers. And I think there's a few famous Vikings on there. Dr. Olson and I both dressed as Vikings. And when the kids have all of those, then there's an incentive at the end. So we're trying to really increase and I'm noticing kids, I think this past Friday we did stickers, which means 238 kids came five days before spring break. So that's that's a large amount. So we're working towards that. Again, you notice that same winter January, we dropped a little
007bit as far as our daily attendance. We also are doing at the end of the day we're shouting out all the home rooms. And if they earned a piece for the potato head, and then we're saying like today we were at 93%. We're posting on Facebook the parents and then like a little like not really a trivia, but a did you know kind of thing with attendance. So that's one of our first goals that we had. If you flip it or at the very bottom of that page, these are the annual targets. This is set by the state department. The reason I brought this to your attention is we're actually going to look at this data here in a second, but we met our math target last school year. We did not meet it for
008reading. We were off by 4%. So this year one of the things we did, we found that um >> [snorts] >> again, this isn't new to anybody. You've heard this across the district, but our students are just not reading on grade level. So we have a large Title One budget and so we invested in a partnership with a group called Engaging Learners and they come three days a month and they're supporting us in reading. And we have been working, we've hit some you know, dips and valleys, but one of the thing that's happening is we're starting to get alignment in our content of what we're teaching and so we're really in our primary grades focusing a lot on phonics. And at the winter benchmark our third grade was at 96% of those students on grade
009level. They came at the beginning of school at 67%. So that's huge that we're getting those guys there. We're starting to speak the same language. So we finished at 31. Our goal for this particular particular year is 37. I believe at winter benchmark we're not far from that, so we anticipate with the spring that we're going to be able to push that up there. Math is at 28%. And these targets don't change. The state sets those based upon previous years data and I think it was you know, I can't remember what year it was, but it goes up whether you hit the mark or not. Your your goal for the next year is >> it's about 3%. >> about 3%. >> And it takes us all the way to like 2030 or something of that
010nature. So it's I'm very much a goal setter. I give me a hard time. I set lofty goals. My goal is 99% of our students will be reading on grade level. Why I'm not 100 because we have to be honest that there's a small population of kiddos who struggle with some cognitive disabilities that we may or may not be able to get over that hump. So [clears throat] that's the ultimate goal. If you look at the next page, if this stresses you on colors or you are color blind, I'm sorry. What the goal is here is for you to be able to watch a group of kids. So if you look at that first blue, you can see them in 22-23 where they were as third graders, where they went to fourth grade, and where
011they went to fifth grade. Um This is our past data. So as a school last year we finished at 30% math and if you remember our target was 25%, so we hit that goal. This year our goal is 28%. We have been moving. You notice our math we went from 23 and a half to 28 to 30%. So I will say that as well with that alignment with Carnegie. There's two types of teaching. There's what we're teaching and how we teach. And so for our school we finally have a what that's solid and we are all kind of alignment together. Reading is definitely ELA has definitely been a hurdle. I don't know if you've ever taught middle school kids how to read. Their excitement for this relatively low. So that's something that we are trying
012to overcome as well. So this is where we are as of right now. This was our winter benchmark data. As a school our math was 17% and our reading was 32. Remember our target said 37% for reading. So we're only 5% from our target for reading. And I know this math looks really low. Our sixth graders did something wonky. We're not sure what happened there at 9%. I'm hoping that was a typo. It really wasn't, but I like to pretend it was. I You're You're You're like You're like well We accept you. Thank you. So we definitely have some work to do with our spring benchmark. They're taking star right now and it was too inconsistent with data coming in. I just didn't even pull it to look at cuz the the window just opened.
013One of the things that we have done this year is we've done a lot of co-teaching especially in our middle school. We can get our students exposed to good tier one instruction. We notice that they're they perform better. In fact, today as I was walking past with one of our special education teachers, he said that um every single one of his students in reading grew over 100 four out of eight had grown. He said they didn't try, so they're going to do it again tomorrow. So that's pretty encouraging when you think about that for our co-teaching students. Also over 50% of our elementary students are taking the letters training. I don't know, do you guys know much about the letters training? Have you ever heard about this? Some of the state department has given um
014K3 teachers opportunity to take for free. My friends told me it was a two-month program, it's two years. That's okay, I'm getting through it. There's several of us who are taking the admin course, but at our school almost all of our elementary primary teachers are taking letters. And one of our middle school teachers found a middle school course for letters and there's three of them taking that course. They just started in the last couple weeks. So what we've really been talking about is intentional planning, progress monitoring, and then we as a school with our Title One budget, we have seven interventionists in our building. So I think the use of those interventionists have also helped kind of close some gaps cuz our kids are coming with some hurdles before they get here. That letters training,
015that's science of reading training. >> [music] >> And the state is really pushing that state wide and um I'll have Tanya report out to you at at our next regular meeting, but we've got a pretty good percentage of teachers that are enrolled in the in the program. And I I think that what we're hearing is our the percentage that we have that are doing it is considerably above the average across the state. So they're definitely excited about that. And there are seven administrators, I think in my course with me. So And it's nice cuz it they can work at their own pace, but then they have to they have to log in to um a Zoom meeting for 3 hours. And so that's been nice cuz the the teachers who are taking letters are really
016gaining a lot of um skills from that. And then our partnership with engaging learners and they've been teaching us about science of reading. Um this was our students reading on grade level um based upon the instructional reading level. I pulled this data last year and then Nikki has added it on um to our data thing cuz I don't think it was on there last year. I remember us talking about it in our LSSE. But the way this looks is you can see again, lofty goal 99% is what I would like for us to be at. If you look on the very right column, 50% of our second graders are reading on second grade reading level. Um 91% of our third graders are reading on reading level. So one of the things that we're we've done
017is our phonics curriculum is called Orton-Gillingham. It was free. We didn't have to purchase anything. So that was nice and that's been our tier one inner um instruction. And so and oh, we might have to This laptop's old. It'll be okay. I'll go through quick. And I can always pick up the piece of paper. Um fifth grade 68%. What's really encouraging is our sixth grade and seventh grade 48% and 42%. Our eighth graders are really not reading on grade level. Some of them 3/4 of them probably didn't put as much attention into it as they should have. Which we also see it at the older they get. And 91% number, I mean that's impressive. >> [snorts] >> And they're doing Orton-Gillingham um tier one instruction with our third graders. That is what they're getting. Yeah.
018And so it's been I was in there the other day and it I could sit there all day long. And I watched a second grade lesson for probably 45 minutes on Friday or Thursday cuz it was so good. I just couldn't leave. >> [snorts] >> Just the teacher literally was just a facilitator. The kids were doing everything. So open it was in there actually. We were learning how to read, weren't we Bennett? Remember that? Yeah. Um again, this is our STAR reading. This is just overall overall growth. Um I don't know what the science is, but for some reason the kids in winter don't do as well as they do in the fall and spring. I don't know. I don't know how to explain it. There to me it doesn't make any sense. But we
019also know that STAR and compared our GSA data is very different in the way the kids are assessed. But that data is on here for you guys as well. So I thought it was a good piece. One another area that we're super proud of is Goodbye. I'm going to grab a piece of paper. Um we actually went the whole first 6 weeks of school this year with no suspensions. Zero. Uh one of those positions with our interventionist is specifically for middle school and they work on reading intervention as well as behavior intervention. And so we've built a full day in school system. So we all know that when students go home, they if they misbehave at school typically when they go home there's not as much structure as we would require. And so we've really
020utilized that in um in school. Now last year we ended up the school year with 11 out of school suspensions. This year we up to today we're at we only have six. And three of those were a little guy that needed a little extra support and we've got it for them and they're doing so well. So it it did its purpose um to help get some people understanding what's going on. Um educator handbook, this is the documentation system Dr. Ross really um spends a majority of his time in that. We we document almost everything. So when you see, you know, a thousand write-ups that's not a thousand write-ups. We don't have a thousand kids who are misbehaving. That is documentation. It's non-offender of a um target target non-offender of a target misbehavior. Thank you. So
021like if you were the recipient of some things that we can start to track some patterns of bullying and things like that. Which was how we used it today. Uh we're doing monthly PBIS meetings after school. Our elementary PBIS is flourishing this year. Um it's something that was a struggle for us in the past. Our secondary PBIS has always done a really great job. We lost Louis Foundation monies. Um so we've had to get a little creative, but um they're going on a field trip this Friday and we have 80 82 middle 82 middle schoolers and we have 135 or 140 middle school kids. So and that's grades and behavior. Yes. And it's a 3.2. Like it's not like it's a 2.0. So we're really I was very very pleased to look over that list
022today. And the elementary kids are doing a um picnic and something >> Popsicles and playground. Popsicles and playground to reward their good behavior. And they had So we're trying to really incentivize and and support our students through PBIS. So if you look at the bottom, that is our strategic plan. Um and I think these align almost perfectly with the our district. Our three focus areas are attendance, proficiency, and then behavior. Um there might be five I think for the district. But those three fall I can't really remember. But anyway, so as far as attendance, our goal is to decrease chronic absenteeism rate by 5%. Um the 2024-2025 [clears throat] school year we were at 36 and as of right now we're at 31. So I feel like we're going to be able to make that
023goal. Um and then increase daily attendance to 92. This one's a lot harder it seems to move. Um but it's okay. We're still working at it. And we're still trying and we're going to continue to try. As far [clears throat] as student proficiency goal, we set our goal from fall to spring a 20% growth. Um as of right now we've not hit that 20% growth, but again we haven't taken the GSA. And like I said earlier, our winter benchmark typically we see a dip in all of those things. Now as a school, we are at 31% proficient in reading. That is something that is like our hair's on fire. We got to get it out. We got to fix this kind of situation. So that's why our investment in the letters course and science of
024reading strategies and engaging learners, we're putting a lot of work into one area. We don't want math to drop. But we have the best math curriculum we've ever purchased in our district in the last This is our second year using it. So for next year things, we have non-negotiables like you have to teach an Orton-Gillingham lesson every day and you have to teach a Carnegie Math lesson every day. I don't care if it's early release, a 2-hour delay, we're going to a baseball game, it doesn't matter. Those are our two non-negotiables for next year. So we just we have 180 school days. We don't have time to waste. Um so that's kind of a goal that we have. Uh as you can see our data is not there, but we feel very confident by this
025spring that we'll be able to meet that 20%. Um PBIS, that's maintaining consistency. It's not so much that we want to increase our write-ups, but we want our staff it just becomes a language. It just becomes second nature to us. They even had to train me. They're like, "Tell, you have to get that written down." Doing a lot better. Um cuz I will meet with students and then I forget to put it in the system. So if you can see there last year we finished with 1,300 um pieces of information is what I'm going to call it. And as of right now we're at 1,100. Again, seems like a lot, but even there's good things. We started something this year called no zero zone. And that's something that we started with our middle school. We
026actually are using it some in our intermediate kids as well. Kids are There should be no reason that kids have F's. Right? You just should not have an F. Uh you should definitely shouldn't have an F cuz you F because you're not doing your work. So we created a no zero zone. Miss Stroud runs that for middle school. Miss Smith runs it in elementary. And we've seen a huge growth. So we're even documenting there that kid went to no zero zone. And that gives us really good pieces of information when we meet with parents. So the very last page, rarely do we ask for things. We're going to ask a little bit. And I don't think it'll cost too much money. Okay? I know that stresses you, but I'm just going to say. Huh? I
027think all right. All right. Nothing costs millions, I promise. Okay, maybe the best the more playground equipment. No. Um we would request, I don't know if this is something you could do. That we want to put a permanent basketball hoop out here by our playground cuz if you know this is how large our school is, we have a very teeny tiny playground. Um so we would love to be able to make the loop kind of close it off a little bit midday so that kids can play basketball and throw footballs and stuff like that out here in the loop. Um and then shade canopy on our playground. It gets incredibly hot out there. Um I looked into it and I might need to talk Miss Stroud's in here, you might be able to answer this.
028Something about structure about the way the building is said the guy really wouldn't quote me on a shade because it's you have to attach to the building. Cuz the other kind is like the pole in the middle that looks like an umbrella. We don't have enough clearance space for that. Um light bulbs. There's little short posts out here that were built with the school. Um we just need those light bulbs replaced. I don't know if that's a work order thing. Um Uh paint our parking lot lines. Not even the whole parking lot, just lines. Um oh, I skipped one. Out back, I don't know if you all have been out back by our football field in a while. There's like a a big as that. I don't know. 10 by 50, I don't know. Just
029random plot of mulch dirt. So, we have actually been eating lunch outside lately. So, um, Tulsa High School carpenter class is building us eight picnic tables that we're paying for and then we're going to put those picnic tables out there so that'll give us 11 picnic tables so the kids can eat lunch out there and just So, we'd like to concrete that or I'd say pea gravel, but I think our humans might kick it a little bit make a mess. But, I don't know. That's something that you guys could do. >> [clears throat] >> The other thing in this one is this is probably the most expensive but those keypads like where you swipe We have three stairwells in this We have four stairwells in our building. You can only get to one of them
030from outside. The other three you get tracked. So, if we had kids outside for recess or or in a murals, they can't get back in the building and get upstairs or anything like that. So, I don't know if that was just the way the building I don't know. None of you guys were on the >> [music] >> agenda when that building was built. Um, but there's three keypads that we would like. One is on our playground. One is out here at this door to get those people upstairs and then the other one is out back where our son is not wearing those picnic tables. So, those are not too expensive, but they're just really small things um, that we would like to have for our school. I don't know if you guys noticed um, the
031school when you came in, but you have new window clings on everything. It looks really really nice. We've painted the entire school orange and black and we um, have worked with um, actually she's a Wayne County parent. She has done all the murals. So, if you pay attention as you walk around um, see some of the murals that she's done. I mean, they are just Our kids are like this is so great. And they'll say, "It doesn't look like a prison." I'm like, "It never looked like a prison." [laughter] But, whatever. So, we have done a lot of painting and some pressure washing um, and we're doing some branding. I don't know if you noticed when you came up Sunny Side. We have those little cups put in. You saw the two Viking heads and
032it says welcome. We also have some for the other side of the fence that says always mess that. Okay. F G P K A and then spell out Vikings and there's going to be two. >> Two more. I I'm always like, "Welcome." They're like, "No, Kelly. We've already put welcome out there." [laughter] Um, good thing I run the school. I don't know. Howdy. Yes, that's it. >> [laughter] >> So, they um, but I'll tell you the school it it looks really good. They've even You got to do the sensory room in there. Yeah, we have our sensory room and we've we've done some the murals She's painted up there looks so great. So, this place just feels very homey. You can see the work that she's done in here, but this was like this last
033year and then it kind of just spread into the school and so it it really really looks nice and the kids for the most part have been very appreciative of the work. So, that's that's us. Do you have any questions, comments, or concerns? I know you got your new um, concession stand out by the football field. Is everybody Is that a satisfied with that? Yeah. Is Is it finished or is there work that's to be done inside or do you know? I'm not sure. I'm going to walk over after the meeting. It's It's basically the shell's up. Inside it's still going to be up first to finish off, but it's looking good. The another goal we have in um, this above probably do a sports funds is something we've talked about is fencing in our
034football field so that you can control like gate entry. Football season this year was wonderful. I mean, it was Our team was pretty good. But, also just the community coming out. It was just a really It was a cool place to be on Thursday nights for football. And our basketball season, I mean, we really had a a good good year of sports. We're in baseball right now. We're we're partnering with Chrome cuz we don't have enough baseball boys. And Fort Gay, we have a team that is slowly fizzling out. So, um, but that's okay. We were offering it. Um, I've talked to a dad about maybe a grandfather actually about maybe starting soccer. I think if we could get soccer out here, that would be great. >> [music] >> Um, we give our students some
035opportunities that are you know, different. And then um, our robotics was down this past year, but um, we actually have a set of sisters that would are interested in running robotics next year if that's an option that we can still do for the district. And I think that could really increase that as well. So, we have a lot of really positive things going on. Our parents we're still trying to get them in in the building and talk to us and so we had a really um, successful turnout last year for our awards. We gave each grade level a different hour of the day. Made a long day for Dr. Ross and I. We were all over the place. Um, but it allowed parents and families to come in and not miss out on other grades.
036And so we're repeating that again this year. And so um, like I think it's June 3rd and every grade has their own hour and there was pickleball going on and a cookout going on and we had donuts in another classroom. So, a lot of really positive things and we're trying to get the parents in as much as we can with our family engagement stuff. Any questions? >> I'd like to mention that and I know it it involves my son, but I'm going to brag a little bit about the Jersey Journey. All of the Jersey Journey. All [laughter] of us brought that up. We were at ball games and I've been at ball games at Paulson and stuff. These little kids are running up to him and saying, "I got to take my picture with you
037cuz I got the question right." So, It's so cool. every day we have the random Jersey Journey. Um, today was in San Bruno. You should ask him your trivia question. Okay. So, like the way the story is last winter during a Saturday, I got bored while we were being out. I was like, "I'm going to go through my closet." I started counting the number of jerseys that I had to start collecting. Now, I got 98 football jerseys and I have all sports too. So, I I was like, "Oh my gosh, this is ridiculous." So, she took a picture and sent it to Kelly. [laughter] Kelly said, "I dare you to wear a different one every day without repeating." So, I've done that and I've counted I'm going to clear it by like 20 30 jerseys.
038So, every day what we do is I want to make it mean something. She had the idea of tying in a trivia question. So, we did that like right off the bat and uh, we tried to like span it across different content areas. Not just like sports questions. Like I asked him the perimeter of a hockey rink during hockey season. I asked him to calculate the difference in mileage that the Washington State University traveled between their two rivals. Um, I've asked him science questions. I asked him the incubation of turkey eggs on Friday. Um, so it's been kind of fun. The kids that get the answer correct that day get to take a picture with me. We post it on Facebook. Um, we put it in the hallway. Uh, you're welcome to go check it
039out. I'll be doing that all year. Additionally, after I got into it, I was like, "You know what? Let's tie in some college awareness. Let's see if we can get these kids exposed to these different colleges." So, I started contacting every college and pro team that I've worn and I got the first one Mississippi State. I'm like, "Oh, wow, it's working." And then it just kept happening. So, we've got all these different pennants [music] and brochures and things that we're also hanging in the wall. Um, just down this main hallway. Got a game ball from the Pittsburgh Steelers thanks to a Wayne County native which was cool. Um, the kids got to come and interact with Kyle Powers who's a Wayne High School grad former student of mine. Marshall sent a game ball. Um, the
040Utah Mammoth sent a a warm-up towel um, from their first ever home game which is really cool. Um, so the kids have really been exposed to some new sports, some schools, some educational opportunities that lie outside of Wayne County. My hope is by the time they all leave this, they see there's a whole wide world out there they can go get this knowledge bring it back to Wayne County and make it better. Yeah, when you all leave, please [clears throat] make sure you look and take a field trip if you want. And then you can see some of the murals that's up too, but see his Jersey Journey. So, the question is what we do next year. So, he's also a wordsmith. So, I said we're going to have the Viking vocabulary. So, I think
041he should wear a shirt every day with a new vocabulary word. >> [laughter] >> I didn't I didn't prep I didn't prep you for that. All right. I'm going to bring it up. >> [laughter] >> How much for his jersey and hat? You pay it for a few of them. Ever since he was about the size of this one, it's probably [laughter] cost me thousands and thousands of dollars. That's right. I asked you. I was like, "What are we doing next? Or what are you going to do with all of them?" He's like, "I don't know. Maybe we'll sell them." I was like, "Huh." It's It's a It is impressive. It >> [clears throat] >> Yeah, it's pretty impressive. Um, so that has been really cool. We we actually had to kind of start limiting
042that only five kids could tell uh, a Jersey Journey question time because we were giving them shout-outs at the end end of the day. There were like 40 kids coming out I don't know if you ever let 40 kids out of a class at once. It's mayhem. So, uh, yeah. Thank you for bringing that up. Mr. Ross, I I just did it because of these kids that we were at the ball game last Friday or Saturday one and these little kids were coming up to him and like so excited because they got to take their picture. They got the question right. And all their faces are there. Did you even print that out? Yeah. Show them the good deals. I think so. I took a picture with him before. Okay. Mr. Would you guys like
043a picture with him? Yeah, I think you should. Mr. Miller's up there. Grant Miller's up there. Joe Parsons is up there. Joe's up there. We have our matching jerseys to wear at the last high school and they are orange and black and they're six and seven. But, our students tell us that's not cool anymore. But, we're going to wear them anyway >> [laughter] >> cuz we don't care. So, Six and seven's over there. It is. It was so 2025, they said. And I was like, okay, whatever. So, the Viking vocabulary, I can just see it now. I'm going to do 180 shirts for you now. You're up? Questions? I think they've covered it all. You're doing a fantastic fantastic work. There's definitely a lot of work to be done and we know that. But, we
044have to start somewhere and just the the kids, you know, from last year till this year and just just the way they conduct themselves. It's it's really encouraging to see them. So, very very proud of them. I like the kids and I like the staff. Like shout out to Billy and Sabrina for really helping and getting everything and us Yeah, it looks good. >> You know, PBIS with the skills and with you all. I didn't see Aaron Locke. Everybody really trying to work together. I club and Viking elders. I mean, we're all really trying to work together for the benefit of the community and the school. Yep. So. That's what it takes. Yes, it is. One big team. Yeah, so the the focus is the focus is evident and uh just to see that um
045the effort that's being put in uh the focus on that reading on grade level. That 91% mark Yeah, that's crazy. Yeah. That's excellent. You know, we meet with every school and go over these numbers. I I can there might have been one other school that was in the 90s for a grade level, but I mean, that that's difficult to hit. So, there's obviously progress that's been made there. And uh so, we appreciate everybody's efforts and uh what's happening here. It's good. >> Yeah. There's 72 of us on staff and it's everybody doing their part, you you know, just [clears throat] the custodians and the cooks and you you know, all the things going on. Our bus drivers, we've really tried to involve our bus drivers in part of our you know, we're out there in
046the morning and in the afternoon and having those conversations with bus drivers and I think that's helped, too. Just there's somebody there to to to bounce ideas off of. And the phonics program that you mentioned, I mean, is that something that we can share with other schools that Yes. I actually have I feel like I might I need to make money off of it cuz it's been so good. It's boring. Like it's not like cute-sy, artsy, fartsy anything. It is very much like to the point and drill and skill and it's been amazing. So, um I've shared it with all of our elementary principals. Tyra Bone and I have talked. She's come a couple times when Engaging Learners is here. Um I would love for them to partner with us, maybe even some of our
047district days. Um some different opportunities like that and then um it's just we have a hell of literacy and there's another one that is on the tip of my tongue that's not Hello Literacy. Secret Stories. Secret Stories is one word. What is it? I don't remember. I think it comes in a big box. Yeah, and and the thing is is what we're finding it's not so much the program is good. If If you've ever heard of Saxon, that's something that is an expensive program. Um it's really about the alignment and then everybody's doing the same thing. And that's something that we've really kept I mean, I feel like I say it every day. Um but it's really I think that's what's making the difference. It's it's just I'll tell you, I was in that second
048grade room for 45 minutes and the teacher said 30 words in a 45-minute time span. The slides, the kids, the interaction. >> [music] >> So, it is absolutely something that we can we can share. It's something that it's just getting like everything, it's getting people on board and then like, this is life or death for us. If we don't teach children how to read then we are in a host of problems, you know, especially when you look at research of like inmates and what their reading ability is and stuff like that. So, yeah, it's totally an option that we can look into. Yeah, we do, too. >> [laughter] >> Even for a school that has money, like I I still don't want to waste money on something that's available that's Yeah, Core Knowledge is something
049that we're really kind of pushing. We have Savvas, it came out. That was something we purchased um in the adoption cycle and unfortunately, it rolled out during COVID and we didn't get good PD with it. And so, [clears throat] we just find whatever we can. That's what teachers do and that's the other piece is that is that we're aligning that up to right now. It's we're all doing the same thing, finally. We're going to If we can hit that 99%, I'll be like, retirement. Is that an option? >> [laughter] >> I don't know about a cartwheel, but retirement, yeah. So, I'll let you guys do your thing. All right, well, thank you. All right, we can Looks like we have some policy work to do here. So, I think all of these policy items or
050policies that eventually need to go to 10-day public comment when you guys are ready to send them to 10-day public comment. So, we can do that this evening. Let's do that. Or we can just do If everyone's okay with it. Yes. Let's do all of them at one time, huh? Yeah. I think I think we unfortunately have to go through them individually cuz they're listed that I have actually looked at some of them. I agree. I'm with you. I'm not quite yet. I am, too. I took I took a good 40 seconds. >> [laughter] >> All right, we'll go through these. I'll make a motion uh policy 5223 to send it out first. I second. Motion by Randy, second by Juanita for 5223 for 10-day comment. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries 5
051to 0. Number two is policy 5600. I'll I'll move. 10-day comment, Mark. Second. Second by Juanita. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries 5 to 0. Number three, 5200 uh out for 10-day comment. Motion? Motion. Randy, second. Second. Juanita. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries 5 to 0. >> [clears throat] >> Number four, policy 0100 for 10-day comment. Motion. Mark. Second. Dennis. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries 5 to 0. Number five, there's three of them. 5500, 5530, and 5610 for 10-day comment. Juanita makes a motion. Second. Dennis. All in favor? Aye. Any [clears throat] opposed? Carries 5 to 0. Number six, policy 2271 for 10-day comment. Motion? Motion. Dennis, second. Second. Second, Mark. Questions? All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries 5 to 0. Number seven, policy number
0525511 for 10-day comment. Motion. Motion by Juanita. Second. Second, Dennis. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries 5 to 0. Number eight, policy 5460 for 10-day comment. Motion. Motion by Randy. Second. Mark or Steve [clears throat] Mark. Got it. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries 5 to 0. Number nine, policy 0142, 0142.3, 0147, 2411, 2451, 5113, and 5722 for 10-day comment. Motion. Juanita. Juanita makes a motion. Second. Second. Randy. >> [cough] [clears throat] >> All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries 5 to 0. 10, um policy 2413 and 7440.05 for 10-day comment. Motion. Mark. Second. >> [clears throat] >> You, Juanita? Second. Oh, sorry. Yeah, I didn't hear you. All in favor? Aye. >> [clears throat] >> Any opposed? Motion carries 5 to 0. Number 11, policy 8330 for 10-day comment.
053Motion? Motion. Juanita, second. Second. Mark. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries 5 to 0. Almost there. Number 12, 24 or I'm sorry, 2340 for 10-day comment. Motion. Dennis, second. Second. Juanita. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries 5 to 0. Number 13, policy 2605, 5780.01, 5840, 5895, 7421, 8350, and 8800 for 10-day comment. Motion. Motion by Randy. Second. Juanita. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries 5 to 0. Number 14, policy 2275, 4139.01, and 7530.02 for 10-day comment. [clears throat] Motion? Motion. Dennis, second. Second. Randy. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries 5 to 0. Superintendent reports. Just a reminder that the service personnel and Teacher of the Year event and this year the state has expanded that to Counselor of the Year and principal of the year. That's this
054Thursday at 6:00 p.m. at Spring Valley High School. So, it's just a presentation. There's not the full dinner and all that. We're just doing a presentation Thursday evening of those awards. Um I'll make you a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. >> [laughter] >> And then um What time? 6:00 p.m. Spring Valley High School auditorium. That's the Hagmann. Yes. This This Gretchen? Yes. And then um just a reminder that um just a reminder that um tomorrow evening we have the board meeting at 4:45 p.m. to approve the levy rates. And I think that that's the only thing on the agenda if I remember correctly. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Thanks, Wes. All right. Do you want to adjourn? I'll make a motion. Okay. Does Miss make a motion? Second. Second the motion. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed?
055Motion carries 5 to 0 and it is 4:45. And we can take a tour. And I'll get you guys in a picture of Thanks to those that joined us online. >> [laughter] >> Does anybody ever tell you you look like the