001I would like to So tonight's a little bit different. We're going to have our special budget approval meeting first and then at 7. All right. 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. public comment on budget. All right, action items. I move that approve district 2025 2026. Any discussion? This is pretty standard of what we normally do. Excellent. Any more discussion? All say 2026. budget as presented by the administration. This motion is to approve the approval for the request of state required local 25 million. So basically we kind of looked at what we had pretty much Where does that show up? General budget. access. Yes. Yeah. Our grants come down. type of construction,000 is 14
002years Never overexit. change That's Now we wait for Yeah. Nope. That's it. Oh, I love it. It's like a table of contents. It's new. No, I talked to you last night. Sorry. You could pass that last year in my classroom years ago. Don't say that. We only have two items. Once the meeting starts, I refuse to accept. Okay, here we go. Not in this session. Okay, we'll call this meeting to order. I aliance 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. Motion to approve. I move to approve the agenda. Changes. Consent item action item that each one of the items be approached separately. second. Okay. public comments. Um, I wanted to make sure the board
003was aware. There's a staff member who is working on dismantling the library. They're talking about completely the library and having the kids walk down to the local branch library and the there right now. They're planning on using it for interventions. I understand we're a small building. They need space for this. I feel like removing the library from the school sends the message to the kids that books are not important. It's if it's in our curriculum, that's all you need to read. And that loses any fostering for the level of learning. And it it's frustrating. I might be biased because I love to I take the new book out of the high school library every day, but I feel like getting rid of that space for kids sends the wrong message. We are a school. We
004should be fostering interventions. So, just making it another one with students as needed. I heard it from the staff member and I also was in the library building up and that also doesn't take into effect the subzero weather we sometimes get in the winter. busting down the board was aware that was in the work. Okay. Good evening. Um, Mr. George and I prepared just a brief presentation regarding summer school. Um, summer school was held the month of June. So this year we only teach this year myself and we also have Miss Um, so this year summer school was offered June 2nd through June 26th. Um, schedules were created in collaboration with students and their families in order to best fit the summer schedules and unique needs. Student times and dates were flexible to ensure all
005instruction was provided. Session times based upon individual student goals, the number of content areas being addressed, and the level of support required. Most students have 20 minutes of DLA, 20 minutes of math. The previous slide, I was the entire last week of summer school because I was at a literacy training out in Kelly and that flexible scheduling was really, really important to ensure that the students that we um got the appropriate required. So there were days where I came in on Friday sessions just that having that flexibility not just but this flexibility that students and parents and families also offer kids to get this year but last year we opened based on that When we started talking about summer school, um, early conversations among staff, they identified 25 students as potential summer school candidates based
006upon their proficiency, grade level standards, summer slide, um, our district testing, our assessments. However, after analyzing all of the end of the year data, um, summer school was encouraged for 19 students. So, we felt that that was kind of a c We knew our students. We were the ones that would benefit or could benefit from summer school. Out of those 19 students, nine students and their families accepted, which is a 47% acceptance rate. Um the content areas, seven students received math instruction and five received ELA. Uh the session attendance. So these were the sessions that um students made and as Adam talked about that flexible scheduling. So we had attendance rate of 92.5%. U method of attendance. So we had two students that were in person in our building. Um seven opted for the virtual
007so we had sent Chromebooks and their materials home with them. And then blended meaning acources that we used to pull from or bas instruction off of. We created some individualized math reading resources that were based on those level standards that based on our data standards. proficiency on we used strategies found in the writing program for students who were doing writing as a component of their instruction. We also use the rewards intervention program for students requireing support and for the students who receive mass support. We used K9ur instruction. So I wanted to highlight two particular students that I had in some schools here. I ended up having four which was nice to plan for their particular needs and where I wanted to hit to ensure that they were as prepared for next year as I be.
008Um student one has a history of uh reading and math difficulty retention. Um I use some diagnostics math information from the students and specialification to determine the core skills that we need to address for next year. Um they receive reading instruction and efficient decoding strategies to auto reading. So it became a more automatic process for them. So they put a lot more energy into understanding text. Um with this student there was no major no major growth in reading. So the words per minute that they were reading there wasn't a big increase in that. However, the reading was more automatic. So, they weren't getting stuck and having to part that practice with coding and some significant growth that comprehend very high level text. The student is reading text beyond scaffolding to support them and so I
009saw some amazing growth there student but that was the biggest concern with reading was reading fluency they also have a really hard time with decoding and reading automatically fluently so we decided that the fluency goal would be the most beneficial for this particular student so they can more access that complex text building next in high school. Um, our goal was both autistic, so we want to make it more. We also want to improve their reading rate. Um, with this student, um, they did have some small gains in that, but they were also making very powerful comprehension gains. They were seeing how like text things were connect. out of that student. What was pretty neat is they felt that during the summer they lose some of that math practice and they're very proud of their math
010skills. They're strong. So they asked me five minutes every day practice beyond their level. Absolutely. I like having one says it, right? Student one is on the left side, student two is on the right side. Um, big thing looking at accuracy when we are looking at level text, most research shows that as long as you're able to read or read at least 90 words or more accurately, you should be able to get content. Um, student one accuracy. Student two was making small gains in that. And these are both students where I was using level text. So I wasn't expecting to see big shifts but positive shifts over those few weeks. Student two also had break. So they have a start of summer school a break in the middle because they have some activities outside of
011the beginning. So this is just student number one and these are the different progress monitor dates during during summer school time. That's why this only has two. Unfortunately, wasn't able to attend tonight, but she did have um she wanted to make the celebrations known. Um I would like to celebrate two amazing students. Student one showed up every day, usually early, ready to work. Previous gaps in mathematical computation were filled through this diligence. While there are still concepts that are challenging, their goal for summer school was met and exceeded because of their willingness to learn. This student asked for extra practice to do on their own time. So, I helped them find two free programs and they worked hard on both typing and math back. And the second student had a goal on writing objective summaries.
012They did so well with their just statements that we decided to work on learning how to format and write essays elaborating on the summary that they had written. So again, two very targeted skills that these students were working on and very successful. I did have one question. I'm just interested. Yes. Good job, guys. You're good. That was you. That was me. That was me. No, we're good. Okay. Administrative reports. Do you want to present on yours? I mean, I read through it, but you have to highlight just because I was talking but I do want to hear from you. Unfortunately, I can't pull up on my computer right now. For whatever reason, it shows us the dead, but that's okay. I know what it is. Okay. So, for the next uh for the upcoming school
013year, I have moved into the assistant special education director position. Um just kind of an update for the summer, it's going to look a little bit different as compared to the school year just because we don't have students in building. Um right now for the fall, we're projecting 17 students with IEPs to come into our building. When I do the math, it's about 19% of our student population. Um which puts us a little bit disproportionate because about 15%, so we're a little high, but that's not a We're a small school. We're going to have those out of district kids. It's not atypical for us, but it's just a number that I like to have. Um I went to a training uh the last week of June, so the 23rd through 27th county with Big Horn
014one and park 6. Um it was a training for a program called Morphology Plus. ology is a literacy training um using what is called the Orton Gillingham learning system. It's an evidencebased learning system um that has shown for like the past years to be very very effective for students with reading difficulties ranging from a comprehension difficulty to dyslexia and anything in between. Um that was a 40hour training so it was pretty It was good content. Um, but the cool thing with going to that is seeing, you know, what that training brought to me and what we've been doing as a district for the past couple of years to really push literacy. Um, made me feel good about the work that we've been doing for the past couple years because it's definitely moving us in the
015right direction in helping improve children's access to high quality text and being able to make really meaningful progress in their general education and even special education instruction. kind of a long week. You give the opportunity to network with some staff out that way. I got to meet some special directors, which is cool with this new role I'm taking on. It's good to build that network because if I have questions, I want more people I can ask if I need some clarification. Absolutely. Um I did note on there as well, departmental project. Um when I got here, um we didn't have a special education manual that was district specific. I'm taking on that onus over the coming school year is to write for our district a district specific special education manual that provides a lot of
016operational guidance to what we do here and it provides transparency for any stakeholders both inside the building and outside the building to see what do we do here to serve our students special education. um because it is a pretty big burdensome document with a lot of um components in it. It will take me a while to write it. I've almost gotten through the first draft. It's four part draft just to make sure that I have all the information completely accurate so that it's compant, federal, local, and district guidelines policies. Do you know Sounds like a big feel free to approach me anytime. I don't have access to it. So, you can send it to me. Oh, what? Yeah, it just says no access. I do not have access. Oh, did you? Okay, let me check.
017I do. Perfect. All right, so this is it. This is the end of school. So, Start off with our expend.4 million. So if you look at the break% transfers of course maintenance So let's start instruction. So instructional is good. construction there. We ended up with 8.22%,000. Next one instructional support. So that one basically 14.77% administration budget. So 77,000 this month. I did not call very And so at that point so maintain the miscellaneous expenses which was the part of the 30% over% decided to go ahead and which worked out really well because we wrote the check and I don't know what happens after on that check. So we did that. So then we decided since we were in this situation is a new simple couple button. So that's kind of when it comes to this
018situation maintenance is the easiest one to do because there's a lot of things going this time of year and it's easy to do. So anyway, that's kind of where we're at. Next one was transportation. 192,000 mostly transport. So at the end of the year, well, this is what weed almost. So at the end of the year, we still have 82.4% of that budget. 20,000 transfers again,000,000 lunch,000 rentals. At that point, another closing We had a budget of3.7 million extending overall payments for this month. So it's just local All right. So closing out June $7,59. $1,89. So that's why next year for this year I ended up maint with everything that we did. So the reason this is the original Which means at the end of the year again,000 this month total for the was $57,19.
019Some of the projects that we came Appreciation construction. Special revenues, break down. So this one again lots of changes happened $74,81. We got extra extra money. Other districts got extra money. So we just got so Any questions? $5,000. This is just for action items to approve. Approval of 2020. All favor. table appointment. passes items memos. August law conference about what we need. What we do with that? I think we've got a couple options. It's engagement party August second thinking we're gonna we're gonna have this before next meeting. our expectations and me personally understand. Well, machine from the board. a lot ofbody again half of August. Okay. Motion to second. All in favor say I.